Reading Notes B, Arabian Nights

Story Source: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).
    • Treasures
      • Lamp
      • Ring
      • Fruit trees -- turns out is jewels
    • Genie in a ring, not the lamp
    • Aladdin's mom calls the genies devils
    • Jewels from the trees convinced the Sultan to let Aladdin marry the princess
    • Transported the bed
    • Sultan is a tricky man and tried to get out of his deal twice
    • "Princess," he said, "blame your beauty for my boldness if I have displeased you."
    • Aladdin: captain of the Sultan's armies
    • The palace: "the greatest wonder of the world"
    • The magician took the princess and palace to Africa
    • Princess tricked him to drink powder
    • A lot of acting like you aren't in this story

    Aladdin and the Princess reunited
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