Morgiana saves Ali Baba a total of four times. The first two times, she uses the same method. The thieves mark Ali Baba’s house twice in their attempts to kill him, first with a symbol and...Read More
This is difficult to establish, but the first recorded instance of the story popping up as one of the tales in “One Thousand and One Nights,” an old Middle-Eastern book of tales, is...Read More
In the original story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Cassim discovers the cave when he forces Ali Baba to tell him where he got the gold. The story goes that when Ali Baba returns from his...Read More
In the original story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Ali Baba learns about the thieves’ treasure store when he actually overhears the thieves getting into their cave. He hears the...Read More
Morgiana marries Ali Baba’s son, who remains nameless in many accounts of the story, because Ali Baba is grateful to her. In the ancient middle eastern culture that Ali Baba takes place in,...Read More
One lesson that can be taken from the story of Ali Baba is that if three people know a secret, it’s going to get out to others. In the original story, Ali Baba has a brother who is doing...Read More
Every film and short television adaptation of the story of the story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves that he finds has changed the story in some way. Even staged productions have to make some...Read More
This is not mentioned in the original story. However, when a character is given a name, the author typically thinks about it before they settle on a name. Once the name for a character has been...Read More