![]() ![]() ![]() We learn that he’s been in the bottle for centuries. When he uncaps the bottle, a djinn bursts out. In the story "The Fisherman and the Jinni," a fisherman's nets bring up a copper bottle with Solomon's seal. But there are some who are imprisoned, or who serve humans. They may play matchmaker, or marry humans, or work mischief. If you look at the older Nights, most of the djinni are free agents, not unlike fairies or other spirits in European stories. When Galland published Diyab’s stories, he never mentioned his source or gave any credit. He went looking for new ones to insert, stories that had never been part of the collection before – including “Aladdin” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.” He got these from a Syrian storyteller named Hanna Diyab, in 1709. However, Galland was working from an incomplete manuscript, and eventually ran out of stories. The collection was a huge hit and became incredibly influential. Aladdin did not enter the collection until the French writer Antoine Galland began publishing Les mille et une nuits, from 1704 to 1717 - the first known European translation of the Nights. However, there is no Arabic textual source. "Aladdin" is grouped with the stories of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights. But where did they come from? Why do they serve the holder of the objects? Why a lamp?īefore tackling the lamp, it's important to look at where the story came from. There is clearly a power hierarchy, with one genie stronger than the other. The ring and lamp don’t actually contain the genies rather, they summon them from somewhere else, and the genies must obey whoever hold the objects. ![]() The story was an instant classic, but contains many questions about the nature of genies. In an epilogue, the sorcerer's brother makes a try for the lamp, but Aladdin wins again. Then the sorcerer steals the lamp back, and Aladdin must recover it. Aladdin falls for the local princess and orders the lamp-genie to bring her to his chambers at night, then marries her and moves into a magnificent palace built by the lamp-genie. Abandoned in the cave, Aladdin finds himself in possession of a magic ring that summons a genie, and of course the lamp, which summons an even more powerful genie. In the story of "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," a sorcerer convinces a young boy, Aladdin, to fetch him a magic lamp from underground cavern. ![]()
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