![]() Eventually he forgot his evil intentions, and she kept her head. The king wanted to cut off her head, but every night she kept him fascinated by telling him a story – and leaving it in a very exciting place so that he would want to find out what happened next. The stories in this book were first told over 1000 years ago in Persia by a very clever woman called Scheherazade. Hello, this is Natasha, and Prince Bertie has asked me to tell you a story from a book called The 1001 Nights. You will find more background on how the Arabian Nights arrived in the English language at Myth and Folkore. Our version is adapted from Andrew Lang’s Blue Fairy Book(1889). ![]() ![]() It’s packed with oriental mystique – not one, but two genies, wicked magicians, gold and jewels galore, a palace that is transported through thin air, a beautiful princes, and a poor boy who gets very lucky indeed.Aladdin is traditionally the makings of a Christmas Pantomime.
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