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Arabian Nights

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Arabian Nights	comment	The Arabian Nights, also known as The Tales of One Thousand and One Nights (Farsi HezÄ�r-o yek Å¡ab, Arabic KitÄ�b 'alf layla wa-layla), is a massive collection of Fairy Tales drawn from sources as far apart as the Middle East, North Africa, India, and, to an extent, even China and Greece. It has for centuries shaped the European view of the [relative to Europe] "(Near) East" or "Orient", even though only some of the stories are widely known. Jinn, evil wazirs and flying carpets all stem from its pages.Early Arabic-language versions only contain stories that fill up to about 300 nights. The material for the 701 other nights were added later; most of the additions were by Arab writers, but European translators added some other folktales they'd collected in their editions. Some of these additions were based on other Arabian sources, but others, including Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, were obtained by Antoine Galland (the French translator) from Syrian Maronite writer Hanna Diyab, who recounted those tales to Galland and based them on various aspects of his own life. Diyab's autobiography was found in 1993 and greatly expanded our understanding of these stories.The Framing Device for the story cycle is the tale of King Shahryar and the lady Shahrazad. The King's first wife had cheated on him, so he had her executed. Then, feeling that no woman could be trusted, he hit upon a plan only a powerful and insane tyrant could pull off: he'd marry a woman, spend the night with her, and then, in the morning, send her off to the royal Wazir (chancellor) to be executed. No woman would ever betray him again!After a great many wives were executed in this manner (Richard Burton's translation says the King did this for three years, which would be about 1,100 wives), the Wazir was running out of marriage prospects to present to the King. Then the Wazir's daughter, Shahrazad, came to him with a plan. Since her plan involved marrying the King, the Wazir objected in the strongest manner possible, but nothing would deter the girl, and finally he brought her to the King.Come the wedding night, once he started putting the moves on her, she feigned becoming upset, and pleaded to see her younger sister one last time. The King acquiesced, and allowed Shahrazad's sister, Dunyazad, to stay in the room with them until dawn. Even while they consummated the marriage. Awkward. After that and the three of them went to sleep, the sisters woke up at midnight. Just as planned, Dunyazad asked Shahrazad to tell her a story, but by the morning she was not finished, and ended the story on a Cliffhanger. The awoken King was so hooked on the story that he postponed the execution for one night, in order to hear the rest. But after Shahrazad ended that story, it was still the middle of the night, and she started up another story, again ending on a cliffhanger in the morning.The nightly routine continued. Some of the stories were simple, some complex and multi-layered; sometimes a character in one story would begin to tell a second story, and sometimes the story was never actually ended because Shahrazad had gone on two or three layers and never returned to wrap up. Or sometimes she claimed she didn't know the ending, but had another tale that was even more intriguing than the unfinished one. But all of the stories were so compelling that the King could never bear to order her execution without hearing the ending.So Shahrazad kept up the stories for three years — in the meantime bearing Shahryar three sons — and finally, after 1,001 nights, she said that she had told all of her tales and was ready to die. But the King had fallen in love with her, and had been calmed by her entrancing stories. He declared that no woman in the kingdom was as wise as Shahrazad, and he made her his queen for keeps this time, and they lived Happily Ever After.From the 1,001 Nights, the three best known stories are "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," "Aladdin" and The Seven Voyages of Sinbad, which include tropes traceable to Homer. All three have been filmed, and many other movies draw on the Arabian Nights.Unlike many legends, which deal primarily with the deeds of the nobility (who, after all, were the ones who could afford to have a bard as a permanent resident at their palaces), Arabian Nights has the fascinating twist that it covers people from myriads of occupations in a highly-complex society.Lesser known, but no less interesting, stories from Middle Eastern folklore are the Arabian Hero Cycles.
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Arabian Nights / int_12dc4d97	comment	Greedy Jew: In "The Hunchback's Tale" the Jewish doctor "rose quickly in his greed of gain" when the hunchback is dropped off at his door. "The Rogueries of Dalilah the Crafty and Her Daughter Zaynab the Coney- Catcher" features a Jewish merchant who is described as wealthy but still jealous if anyone else makes a sale but he does not.
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Arabian Nights / int_135d58f9	type	Man of Wealth and Taste
Arabian Nights / int_135d58f9	comment	He was however a rich and powerful ruler and attracted poets like a magnet. Hence he would naturally be remembered well by storytellers because he was a good employer to people in their line of work.
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Arabian Nights / int_1606a707	type	Secret Test
Arabian Nights / int_1606a707	comment	Secret Test: In "The Hermits," God tests a shepherd's piety by sending an angel in the form of a sexy woman to tempt him. He passes. In "The Devout Israelite" it's an angel dressed as a beggar to test the Israelite's charity. He also passes.
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Arabian Nights / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Arabian Nights / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: This literary device of the unreliable narrator is used in several tales, to create suspense in "The Seven Viziers" (also known as "Craft and Malice of Women" or "The Tale of the King, His Son, His Concubine and the Seven Wazirs") and "The Three Apples," and to create humor in "The Hunchback's Tale." The Thousand and One Nights could be considered an Ur-Example or Trope Maker of the "unreliable narrator" concept.
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Arabian Nights / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Arabian Nights / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: In "The Tale of Hammad the Badawi," an ostrich flies.
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Arabian Nights / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Arabian Nights / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: At the very beginning and again at the very end.
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Arabian Nights / int_1b89151e	type	Forgotten Phlebotinum
Arabian Nights / int_1b89151e	comment	Forgotten Phlebotinum: In the tale of the three princes who each go to seek a marvel, Prince Ahmed finds a magic apple that restores health to anybody who smells it, even if they are at the point of death, and presents it to his father the Sultan. This tale has a sequel, in which the Sultan's advisors poison his mind against Prince Ahmed and persuade him to send Ahmed on a series of impossible quests; one of these is for a MacGuffin reputed to cure all diseases — and not one person, not even Prince Ahmed who gave it to him, thinks to mention that he's already got one.
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Arabian Nights / int_1be134d0	type	Chaste Separating Sword
Arabian Nights / int_1be134d0	comment	Chaste Separating Sword: "Story of Prince Sayf Al-Muluk and the Princess Badi'a Al-Jamal": While searching for his beloved, Sayf rescues her foster-sister Daulat Khatun. The two escape together on a raft. On the raft, Sayf sleeps with his back to her and a sword between them.
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Arabian Nights / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Arabian Nights / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: The Story of the Two Sisters Who Were Jealous of Their Younger Sister, the elder two boasted that they would wish to marry the King's baker and cook, and their younger wanted the King himself instead. When it turns out the King had in fact overheard their game and want to grant their wishes, they immediately start plotting her downfall out of jealousy.
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Arabian Nights / int_1d52b714	type	Self-Parody
Arabian Nights / int_1d52b714	comment	Self-Parody: Shahrazad sometimes follows up a relatively serious tale with a Parody version of the same tale to humorous effect.
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Arabian Nights / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Arabian Nights / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: A classic example of a story within a story. ...within a story, in fact, because "Sinbad the Sailor" is a seven-part story with its own Framing Device. In the Burton translation, stories are nested up to four deep, such as with the Story of King Sindibad and His Falcon within the Tale of the Vizier and the Sage Duban within the Tale of the Fisherman and the Jinni within the overall framing narrative.
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Arabian Nights / int_21586e8c	type	Padding
Arabian Nights / int_21586e8c	comment	Padding: Invoked. Various stories have long conversations repeated word for word, minute detail, lengthy titles and epigraphs, overly-flowery answers, and any number of storytelling conventions that suggest a nervous young woman trying to fill time. Some translations avert or downplay certain elements of this padding. The translation by Dr. J.C. Mardrus and Powys Mathers usually skips over repetitive content with the phrase, "but nothing would be gained by repeating it here." That's still repetitive in its own right, but takes much less time to get through and comes across as more of a narrative flourish.
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Arabian Nights / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
Arabian Nights / int_216ff5ed	comment	Moses in the Bulrushes: The three children in The Story of the Two Sisters Jealous of Their Younger Sister are set adrift in canal by their aunts and all end up at the same house of the Intendent of the Gardens.
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Arabian Nights / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Arabian Nights / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: In "The Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman, and his sons Sharrkan and Zau Al-Makan," Zau's son Kanmakan kills the bandit Kahrdash's head and totes it around to prove that he did it. Ali in "The Adventures of Mercury Ali of Cairo" throws down the Jewish merchant's head at the feet of the Caliph. He didn't do it, though—the merchant's daughter did.
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Arabian Nights / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Arabian Nights / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The savage ghoul Sa'adan from "The History of Gharib and His Brother Ajib" likes to eat people. Surprisingly, he keeps doing this even after converting to Islam and serving the hero, Gharib. In the "Story of Prince Sayf Al-Muluk and the Princess Badi'A Al-Jamal", the Prince's ship stops at an island that turns out to be full of cannibal ghouls. One slave gets left behind to be dinner. Later the Prince and his party land on yet another cannibal island, where they are kept as slaves.
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Arabian Nights / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Arabian Nights / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: There are repeated references to some character or object which appears insignificant at first but reappears later to intrude suddenly in the narrative. One example of this is in "The Three Apples" tale.
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Arabian Nights / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Arabian Nights / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Subtle version. Many Real Life historical figures that appear in the stories, including Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, his Grand Vizier, Jafar al-Barmaki, and the famous poet Abu Nuwas, lived about two centuries after the fall of the Sassanid Empire in which the frame tale of Scheherazade is supposedly set, making the whole collection not completely logical.
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Arabian Nights / int_2837457c	type	Personal Raincloud
Arabian Nights / int_2837457c	comment	Personal Raincloud: "The Devotee to Whom Allah Gave a Cloud for Service and the Devout King" has an unusual twist on this trope—the titular devotee has a personal raincloud, but it's a reward for his piety, a permanent water supply for washing and drinking. Definitely a case of Values Dissonance- anyone from a dry, hot climate which experiences frequent droughts immediately relates to the notion of this being a reward of infinite value.
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Arabian Nights / int_2854e0dd	type	Pegasus
Arabian Nights / int_2854e0dd	comment	Pegasus: In the "History of Gharib and His Brother Ajib", Gharib and his genie buddy each have a flying horse.
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Arabian Nights / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Arabian Nights / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Scheherazade's best weapon, aside of her good looks, was her mind. In fact, most of the heroes in the collection were of this sort. Indicative of the era being one of trade, commerce and prosperity, the archetypical adventurer was a average (if not physically weak) man or woman who used their impressive cunning to get out dangerous situations and overwhelming force - usually making some kind of profit or social advancement on the side.
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Arabian Nights / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Arabian Nights / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: In "The Fisherman and the Jinni" the Fisherman "piddled in his clothes" for fear of the Genie. The same happens in "The Reeve's Tale" (nested inside "The Hunchback's Tale") when a young man, hiding in a trunk so he can be smuggled in to see his lover, wets himself with fear when a guard is about to open the trunk. In the "History of Gharib and His Brother Ajib", a Persian prince poops in his pants when he is awoken in the court of his enemy Gharib and introduced to the two genies that brought him there in his sleep.
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Arabian Nights / int_2d50bb66	type	Perp Sweating
Arabian Nights / int_2d50bb66	comment	Perp Sweating: In "The Three Apples," two potential suspects are interrogated, although the interrogation is only verbal and very mild compared to today's Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique.
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Arabian Nights / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
Arabian Nights / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender: "The Enchanted Spring", in which a prince is changed into a woman because another man covets his girlfriend.
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Arabian Nights / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Arabian Nights / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Some of the tales revolve around self-fulfilling prophecies, such as "The Tale of Attaf" and "The Ruined Man who Became Rich Again through a Dream." The latter used a unique variant of this trope, the self-fulfilling dream, where the prophecy is seen through a dream. In the tale of Prince Ahmed and the Peri, Ahmed's father becomes convinced that Ahmed is planning to overthrow him and take his place as Sultan. No such thought ever crosses Prince Ahmed's mind, even as the Sultan tries several increasingly elaborate attempts to be rid of him — the last of which results in the Sultan's death and Prince Ahmed's succession. In "King Yunan and the Sage Duban," the king is convinced by the evil vizier that the Sage Duban was an enemy spy, and that he could kill the king by poisoning anything he touched. The King has the Sage captured and is about to kill him, when the Sage hastily says he possesses a book that will allow the king to ask his severed head for advice. The King is intrigued, and lets the sage go get the book... which the sage then poisons, killing the king.
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Arabian Nights / int_31546b19	type	Hurricane of Excuses
Arabian Nights / int_31546b19	comment	Hurricane of Excuses: In "The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince", the unfaithful princess goes into mourning for her lover, but gives her husband the excuses that "My mother has died, my father has been killed in a holy war, one of my brothers has died of snakebite and the other has fallen off a cliff."
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Arabian Nights / int_31c87ac	type	I Call Him "Mister Happy"
Arabian Nights / int_31c87ac	comment	I Call Him "Mister Happy": In "The Porter and the Three Ladies" each of the four title characters comes up with a name for their private parts. (The third Lady probably wins the creativity prize by naming hers "The Khan of Abu Mansur".note "Khan" means "inn".
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Arabian Nights / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Arabian Nights / int_352151a3	comment	Recursive Reality: Shahrazad tells stories of people who tell stories of people who tell stories and so on. For instance, in "The Fisherman and the Genie," the fisherman keeps the genie from killing him by telling it "The Tale of the Vizier and the Sage Duban," during which the evil wazir tells his king "The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot."
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Arabian Nights / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Arabian Nights / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: Most nights in the Burton translation start with "It has reached me, most auspicious king..." and finish with "...and Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day, and ceased to say her permitted say."
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Arabian Nights / int_38424ebb	type	Genie in a Bottle
Arabian Nights / int_38424ebb	comment	Genie in a Bottle: Interestingly, although this trope is strongly associated with the Arabian Nights, it is mostly averted. There's a Genie In A Bottle in "The Fisherman and the Jinni", which is the second story Shahrazad tells. The trope pops up again over 500 Nights later in "The City of Brass". Neither tale includes the modern notion in which the genie must serve whoever liberates him from the bottle. In fact the Jinni from "The Fisherman and the Jinni" is so bitter over being stuck in a bottle for centuries that he says he will kill the fisherman, and the fisherman has to use his wits to trick the Jinni back into the bottle. "Judar And His Brethren" and "Ma'aruf the Cobbler and His Wife" (the latter being the last tale in the main Burton translation) play this trope straight, except that genie is bound to a ring. Neither of these tales, the only two in the collection in which a genie must serve a human master, include the idea of being limited to three wishes. In the many other examples of genies popping up in the stories, they are free agents who sometimes help humans but just as often screw with them for fun. The real Trope Maker is "Aladdin", which as noted above is a very late addition to the collection, and still doesn't play it completely straight—see the "Aladdin" page for details.
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Arabian Nights / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Arabian Nights / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade - Harun al-Rashid. Okay, maybe he did sometimes go out into the city in disguise, but in real history he was really not a lovable adventurer. Even before he killed his Vizier and the vizier's entire family, leading to a political crisis that took years to resolve, there's not much to suggest he was an extraordinarily good ruler, although he probably wasn't an extraordinarily bad one either. He's mainly in the stories because of the greatness of his empire, not of himself. He was however a rich and powerful ruler and attracted poets like a magnet. Hence he would naturally be remembered well by storytellers because he was a good employer to people in their line of work. A few tales subvert this, giving a Harun a Historical Villain Upgrade instead.
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Arabian Nights / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
Arabian Nights / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: So many of the stories revolve around the themes of fate and destiny that some consider fate and destiny themselves to be leading characters in the Nights. Invoked by "The Queen of Serpents" when her tale turns tragic: "there is no fighting against fate".
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Arabian Nights / int_403b6f3	type	Fainting
Arabian Nights / int_403b6f3	comment	Fainting: All the damn time.
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Arabian Nights / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
Arabian Nights / int_41271766	comment	The Sultan never receives any comeuppance for having a whole bunch of girls executed. He gets to live Happily Ever After with Shahrazad and their children. The Conclusion reveals that his brother has been doing the same thing, and of course nothing happens to him either.
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Arabian Nights / int_41271766	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_4441d947	type	The Storyteller
Arabian Nights / int_4441d947	comment	The Storyteller: Shahrazad herself, as well as many of the characters in her stories about other people telling stories and them telling stories about people telling stories.
Arabian Nights / int_4441d947	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_4441d947	featureConfidence	1.0
Arabian Nights	hasFeature	Arabian Nights / int_4441d947
Arabian Nights / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
Arabian Nights / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: The Story of the Two Sisters Who Were Jealous Of Their Younger Sister begins with a King who liked to sneak out of his palace to explore the city in disguise. One night he overhears three sisters talking about who they would each like to marry, and decides the next day to summon them to the palace and grant their wish.
Arabian Nights / int_44a1dd10	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_44a1dd10	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
Arabian Nights / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: At the end of "The Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman, and his sons Sharrkan and Zau Al-Makan," Zau's son and his family have fallen into the hands of Ruzman, the Christian "King of the Greeks." Ruzman is about to execute the lot of them when he finds out that they are his family; he is the long-lost son of King Omar by Princess Abrizah, who was murdered as she was giving birth.
Arabian Nights / int_455f6a91	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_455f6a91	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_4660f594	type	Lover, Not a Fighter
Arabian Nights / int_4660f594	comment	Lover, Not a Fighter: Nur Al-Din of "Ali Nur Al-Din and Miriam the Girdle-Girl" admits to this when Miriam asks him for help in fighting off the army that's pursuing them.
Arabian Nights / int_4660f594	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_4660f594	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Arabian Nights / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Black slaves and savages. This can be semi-justified as Shahrazad Pandering to the Base, as the king's original wife cheated on him with an African slave. The exception may be Mesrur, the Chief Eunuch of Harun al Rashid, who's a good guy.
Arabian Nights / int_4832a3bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_4832a3bb	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Arabian Nights / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: What the jinn in "The Fisherman and the Jinn" became during his And I Must Scream ordeal. (He had started out as just a Sealed Badass in a Can but ran out of patience).
Arabian Nights / int_485eb589	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_485eb589	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_49334c8e	type	Coitus Uninterruptus
Arabian Nights / int_49334c8e	comment	Coitus Uninterruptus: This is part of the nightly routine of the Framing Device. Shahrazad's sister Dunyazad comes into the royal bedroom, waits politely on the bed until King Shahryar finishes having sex with her sister, then asks to hear a story.
Arabian Nights / int_49334c8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_49334c8e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_49c68dd3	type	Magic Carpet
Arabian Nights / int_49c68dd3	comment	Magic Carpet: In the tale of the three princes who each go to seek a marvel, Prince Houssain finds a magic carpet; not a flying carpet, but a teleporting carpet, that will instantly transport itself and whoever is sitting on it wherever they wish to go. There's a flying carpet in "The City of Brass", in which it's just another way for King Solomon to get around.
Arabian Nights / int_49c68dd3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_49d5f48f	type	Of Corpse He's Alive
Arabian Nights / int_49d5f48f	comment	Of Corpse He's Alive: The hunchback.
Arabian Nights / int_49d5f48f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Arabian Nights / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: One of the reasons that the storytelling Shahrazad is so enduring is that writers and artists love how she uses the power of story to save her life, heal the Sultan's madness, and save a kingdom. It doesn't hurt that Shahrazad is also beautiful and captivating.
Arabian Nights / int_49f6a9e4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Arabian Nights / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Some of the tales end in tragedy. "Judar and His Brethren" is one notable example, in which the protagonist is murdered by his evil brothers. Though they don't long outlive him. "The Tale of Ali bin Bakkar and of Shams Al-Nahar" is all about the titular couple falling in love and trying to overcome the fact that Shams Al-Nahar is a concubine to the Caliph. It ends with both of them literally Dying By Despair after being separated permanently.
Arabian Nights / int_4e3d253b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_4f4190db	type	Sex in a Shared Room
Arabian Nights / int_4f4190db	comment	Sex in a Shared Room: In the Framing Device, the original Scheherezade Gambit includes Shahrazad's new husband letting her sister Dunyazad sleep in the same room as them during the wedding night. This includes the marriage's consummation itself.
Arabian Nights / int_4f4190db	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_4f4190db	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Arabian Nights / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first tale, "Tale of the Bull and the Ass" is told not by Shahrazad, but by her father, the Wazir, to her, in an effort to dissuade her from her scheme.
Arabian Nights / int_4f4372e9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_4fdf21ad	type	Magical Girlfriend
Arabian Nights / int_4fdf21ad	comment	Magical Girlfriend: The young boy's slave girl, who also patronizes him.
Arabian Nights / int_4fdf21ad	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Arabian Nights / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: In "The Reeve's Tale" a young man forgets to wash his hands after dinner and before embracing his wife on their wedding night. She has his thumbs and big toes chopped off.
Arabian Nights / int_50b05d30	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
Arabian Nights / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy / Honor Before Reason: In the tale of "The Three Apples," a man murders his wife because he suspects her of unfaithfulness, much like the later story of Othello.
Arabian Nights / int_50b9b3d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_50b9b3d0	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Arabian Nights / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Ali does this in "The Adventures of Mercury Ali of Cairo".
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Arabian Nights / int_52488c54	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_5565bf30	type	Three-Way Sex
Arabian Nights / int_5565bf30	comment	Three-Way Sex: Played for comedy in "Harun Al-Rashid and the Two Slave-Girls" and its follow-up "Harun Al-Rashid and the Three Slave-Girls",
Arabian Nights / int_5565bf30	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_5565bf30	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Arabian Nights / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: The Burton version has sixteen volumes. Ten volumes for the main translation of tales, and six more volumes of later additions to the corpus that Burton treated as apocrypha and separated from the rest. The six apocrypha volumes are the ones that contain "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba".
Arabian Nights / int_55940b68	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_55d40fce	type	Three Wishes
Arabian Nights / int_55d40fce	comment	Three Wishes: "The Three Wishes, Or the Man Who Longed to See the Night of Power". Unsurprisingly, the man botches his wishes badly.
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Arabian Nights / int_55d40fce	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Arabian Nights / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: In "The Lovers of Bassorah", the lady has a female friend over for the night. When they're in their pajamas and horsing around, her boyfriend walks in and gets the wrong idea.
Arabian Nights / int_561dab6b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Arabian Nights / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: In "The Porter and the Three Ladies" each lady shows hers to the porter and ask him what it's called. He runs through every synonym he can think of. In "Ali Shar And Zumurrud", Ali Shar is happily surprised to find that the king has a "coynte"—it's actually his long-lost slave-wife Zumurrud in disguise. When a merchant in "The Rogueries of Dalilah the Crafty and Her Daughter Zaynab the Coney-Catcher" is promised a rich young lady to wed, he charmingly remarks that Allah has given him "coin, clothing, and coynte".
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Arabian Nights / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Arabian Nights / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Whenever someone suffers a Forced Transformation, the first person to figure it out is always a woman who was raised by an old lady who taught her witchcraft.
Arabian Nights / int_565106b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_565106b3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_56a77d27	type	Beautiful Slave Girl
Arabian Nights / int_56a77d27	comment	Beautiful Slave Girl: Many stories involve a hero falling in love with a beautiful slavegirl.
Arabian Nights / int_56a77d27	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_56a77d27	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_5a7b4065	type	Bedsheet Ladder
Arabian Nights / int_5a7b4065	comment	Bedsheet Ladder: In "Uns Al-Wujud and the Wazir's Daughter Al-Ward Fi'l-Akmam or Rose-In-Hood", Rose makes one of these out of her clothes and escapes after she is shut away in a castle.
Arabian Nights / int_5a7b4065	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
Arabian Nights / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: In "The Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman, and his sons Sharrkan and Zau Al-Makan," Sharrkan unknowingly marries his long-lost sister Nuzhat. They have a daughter together before Sharrkan figures this out and fobs his sister-wife off on one of his courtiers. And then they win some kind of incest prize when said daughter later knowingly marries her double cousin, son of Nuzhat and Sharrkan's brother Zau Al-Makan. It's kind of just...not mentioned that they're so heavily related.
Arabian Nights / int_5bca5a56	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Arabian Nights / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: In "Nur Al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis Al-Jalis," Nur Al-Din is described as "a Satan for girls [who] leaves no maid in the neighborhood without taking her maidenhead."
Arabian Nights / int_5e2e55e4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_5fb5dad8	type	Royal Blood
Arabian Nights / int_5fb5dad8	comment	Royal Blood: In The Story of the Two Sisters Who Were Jealous of their Younger Sister, despite being raised as and believing themselves to only be the children of the Intendent of the Gardens, Bahman, Parviz and Parizade can't help but give off a regal aura and disposition.
Arabian Nights / int_5fb5dad8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
Arabian Nights / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality
Arabian Nights / int_5fd14ab3	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_5fd14ab3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_600571df	type	Royal Harem
Arabian Nights / int_600571df	comment	Royal Harem: Pops up in many stories. More than once a young lover has to get his beloved out of a harem.
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Arabian Nights / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Arabian Nights / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Shahrazad risked not only her life but her happiness by marrying the Sultan to save her people.
Arabian Nights / int_6439de78	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_6439de78	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_66b98472	type	Erotic Dream
Arabian Nights / int_66b98472	comment	Erotic Dream: In "The Tale of the Hashish Eater," the titular eater enjoys some hashish in a bathhouse until he passes out. He then has a sex dream, and just when he's about to fuck the girl he's woken up by a crowd of people who are laughing at his nudity and Raging Stiffie. He reproaches them for not waiting until after he had sex with the girl in his dream.
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Arabian Nights / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
Arabian Nights / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: The tale called "Ali with the Large Member" pokes fun at the obsession with a man's penis size. In "The Three Wishes, Or the Man Who Longed to See the Night of Power", the man uses his first wish to ask for a bigger penis. Allah gives him one so big he can't even stand up.
Arabian Nights / int_66cdb21b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_66f69cd4	type	Invisibility Cloak
Arabian Nights / int_66f69cd4	comment	Invisibility Cloak: "Hasan of Bassorah" gets ahold of a cap that makes the wearer invisible.
Arabian Nights / int_66f69cd4	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_66f69cd4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
Arabian Nights / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: The Roc bird ("rukh" in Burton), whose eggs are fifty feet broad and is strong enough to carry a piece of mountain in his claws. ("Abd Al-Rahman the Maghribi's Story of the Rukh"). "Hasan of Bassorah" is flown to the top of a mountain by a giant vulture.
Arabian Nights / int_67677940	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_6828b109	type	Abridged for Children
Arabian Nights / int_6828b109	comment	Abridged for Children: The Thousand and One Nights has also seen a number of children's editions, leaving out the erotic and scatological tales. As well as the fact that the entire book is based on a woman's spinning wild "cliffhanger" tales, in order to avoid being killed by her paranoid-jealous husband (to prevent her from cheating on him), by keeping him in suspense to hear the ending!
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Arabian Nights / int_6849cc47	type	Where da White Women At?
Arabian Nights / int_6849cc47	comment	Where da White Women At?: King Shahrayar snaps and goes on his virgin-killing spree after finding his wife in the arms of a "blackamoor" slave. Other tales within the Nights repeat this trope.
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Arabian Nights / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
Arabian Nights / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: The barber in "The Tale of the Hunchback" is called "The Silent One". He never shuts up, in a very old example of the stereotypically garrulous barber.
Arabian Nights / int_68cf9795	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
Arabian Nights / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: The son of the Djinni in "The Fisherman and the Jinni": according to his vengeful father, he was hit in the eye by a date seed and died soon afterwards.
Arabian Nights / int_68f6e811	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_6bd6c8b7	type	Captured by Cannibals
Arabian Nights / int_6bd6c8b7	comment	Captured by Cannibals: In "Abu Mohammed Hight Lazybones," a merchant ship sails too close to an island inhabited by one. Several of them are eaten before a djinn saves the rest.
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Arabian Nights / int_6c07693b	type	Carry a Big Stick
Arabian Nights / int_6c07693b	comment	Carry a Big Stick: The Djinn Shaibar, who's one feet tall, has a 10 feet long beard, hunchback and front and wields a really heavy iron staff as a weapon. Sa'adan from "The History of Gharib and His Brother Ajib" wields an uprooted tree as a weapon.
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Arabian Nights / int_6ccba96b	type	Talking in Bed
Arabian Nights / int_6ccba96b	comment	Talking in Bed
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Arabian Nights / int_6f83b232	type	Wish-Fulfillment
Arabian Nights / int_6f83b232	comment	Wish-Fulfillment: What would a laid back, quiet, coffeehouse storyteller want more in a wife but a beautiful princess who could exchange stories with him?
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Arabian Nights / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
Arabian Nights / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper: The destroyer of happiness, that no man however rich can bargain away. Besides being referenced at the end of many stories, the Reaper stars as a character in three tales—"The Angel of Death with the Proud King and the Devout Man", "The Angel of Death and the Rich King", and "The Angel of Death and the King of the Children of Israel".
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Arabian Nights / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Arabian Nights / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Ma'aruf the Cobbler's adventures are actually sparked by his being henpecked; after his wife throws him out of the house for bringing home the wrong flavor of pastry from the marketplace he finds an enchanted ring that enables him to become a rich man.
Arabian Nights / int_72852a93	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Arabian Nights / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: King Shahryar is this, technically. The madness caused by his first wife's betrayal made him a misogynist, and Shahrazad's true goal was to cure him. (And she succeeded, ultimately.)
Arabian Nights / int_729c69f3	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_729c69f3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Arabian Nights / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: In "The Barber's Tale of His Fifth Brother," said brother runs afoul of an old woman who promises men sexy fun times with a pretty young lady, only to murder them and take their money. "Hasan of Bassorah" meets a pagan who likes to kill Muslims.
Arabian Nights / int_7301ae04	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_7301ae04	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_76dc4f31	type	"Arabian Nights" Days
Arabian Nights / int_76dc4f31	comment	"Arabian Nights" Days: Trope Maker, of course.
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Arabian Nights / int_76dc4f31	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Arabian Nights / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: "The First Kalandar's Tale" (nested inside "The Porter and the Three Ladies")
Arabian Nights / int_771f6307	featureApplicability	1.0
Arabian Nights / int_771f6307	featureConfidence	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_7a570c0	type	The Good Chancellor
Arabian Nights / int_7a570c0	comment	The Good Chancellor: Most notably Ja'far ibn Yahya, but several other good viziers exist. In a few other tales, however, Jafar is depicted as a Treacherous Advisor instead.
Arabian Nights / int_7a570c0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Arabian Nights / int_7d36715f	type	Gasshole
Arabian Nights / int_7d36715f	comment	Gasshole: "How Abu Hasan Brake Wind". In fairness, he only does it once, but Once Done, Never Forgotten.
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Arabian Nights / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Arabian Nights / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: The penalty for marrying the sultan. Averted in Shahrazad's case.
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Arabian Nights / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Arabian Nights / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: The barber from "The Tailor's Tale," called in merely to give a haircut, who will not stop talking, much to the storyteller's displeasure.
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Arabian Nights / int_834420aa	type	BFS
Arabian Nights / int_834420aa	comment	BFS: In one of the stories, appears a huge cannibal black man who is said to wield a really large broadsabre. It doesn't help him in the end...
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Arabian Nights / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Arabian Nights / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: In the tale of Hassan of Basra or Hassan of Bassora, the titular Hassan is a humble seller in Basra who ends up marrying the youngest daughter of the King of the Djinni, who rules in the Islands of Waq-el-Waq over the other classes of djinni.
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Arabian Nights / int_867b1f57	type	By the Hair
Arabian Nights / int_867b1f57	comment	By the Hair: "Hasan of Bassorah" wins control of his beloved via grabbing her by the hair and dragging her away, caveman-style.
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Arabian Nights / int_87af3e94	type	Start to Corpse
Arabian Nights / int_87af3e94	comment	Start to Corpse: In the tale of "The Three Apples," a dead corpse is discovered near the very beginning of the story, setting up a suspenseful murder mystery. On the other hand, "The Hunchback's Tale," a more humorous murder mystery, the dead corpse doesn't appear until after quite some time into the story.
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Arabian Nights / int_882cd7d1	type	Double In-Law Marriage
Arabian Nights / int_882cd7d1	comment	Double In-Law Marriage: At the conclusion of the tales, after Night #1001, the Framing Device ends with King Shahryar letting Shahrazad off the hook, and her sister Dunyazad marrying Shahryar's brother, King Shah Zaman. This also happens a few times in various tales within the Nights.
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Arabian Nights / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Arabian Nights / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: This occasionally applies to the historical figures of Caliph Harun al-Rashid and Grand Vizier Jafar ibn Yahya in some tales, where one is a Historical Hero Upgrade and the other a Historical Villain Upgrade, and vice versa in some other tales.
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Arabian Nights / int_8ba0d482	type	Arduous Descent to Terra Firma
Arabian Nights / int_8ba0d482	comment	Arduous Descent to Terra Firma: In the first part of the tale, Hasan of Basra (or Hassan of Bassora), Hassan is kidnapped by a Persian magician and brought to a very high mountain on a remote island, in order to fetch some wildbushes to prepare an alchemical potion. Hasan enters a camel's hide, which some eagles bring to the top of the mountain. Hasan tosses the bushes to the magician, who abandons him up the mountain to die, just as he has done to other victims. Hasan, then, wanders off to the edge of the mountain and, seeing the ocean beneath him, decides to jump into the water. It may not be terra firma just yet, but he manages to swim for long enough to reach a safer shore.
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Arabian Nights / int_8f3a20a	type	Heroic Spirit
Arabian Nights / int_8f3a20a	comment	Heroic Spirit: Shahrazad's audacity and sheer nerve for 1001 nights makes her this.
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Arabian Nights / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Arabian Nights / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: The society of these tales allowed first cousins to marry, so this trope appears regularly.
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Arabian Nights / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Arabian Nights / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: "Harun Al-Rashid and Abu Hasan, the Merchant of Oman" features a princess possessed by a demon that turns her homicidal. How she came to be possessed is not explained, but she's cured by a magic amulet.
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Arabian Nights / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Arabian Nights / int_90c018ac	comment	Justified, however. After all, the reason why Shahrazad is telling so many stories in the first place is to delay her husband from executing her.
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Arabian Nights / int_929f27c5	type	DetectiveStory
Arabian Nights / int_929f27c5	comment	Detective Story: "The Three Apples" may be the Ur-Example.
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Arabian Nights / int_944a85ea	type	Raised as the Opposite Gender
Arabian Nights / int_944a85ea	comment	Raised as the Opposite Gender: One of the stories had a groom reveal to the bride on their wedding night that he was actually a woman raised as a man due to her father putting pressure on her mother for a son.
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Arabian Nights / int_99b51746	type	Time Title
Arabian Nights / int_99b51746	comment	Time Title: All its names reference the Framing Device in which Scheherazade delays her husband's planned execution of her by reciting stories over the course of 1001 nights.
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Arabian Nights / int_9a68179	type	Holding the Floor
Arabian Nights / int_9a68179	comment	Holding the Floor: Probably the Ur-Example.
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Arabian Nights / int_9a888d97	type	Finger-Licking Poison
Arabian Nights / int_9a888d97	comment	Finger-Licking Poison: In "The Tale of the Vizier and the Sage Duban," the King, quite unjustly, has decreed that the sage Duban must die. Duban gives the King a magic book and tells the King that after he is beheaded, if the King reads from the book Duban's severed head will answer his questions. What the King doesn't know is that Duban has coated the pages with poison. The King flips through the book, licking his finger as he flips pages, until he dies.
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Arabian Nights / int_9ce83619	type	The Corpse Stops Here
Arabian Nights / int_9ce83619	comment	The Corpse Stops Here: Everyone in "The Story of the Hunchback" in turn assumes that if they're found with the hunchback's body they'll be accused of his murder, so they find some way of disposing of it in secret, only for the next person to find it. In the end, it turns out that he's not really dead.
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Arabian Nights / int_9de2bf95	type	Filler
Arabian Nights / int_9de2bf95	comment	Filler: Most of the book depending on the translator. The original cycle is about 275 nights and based off an older Persian work called Hazar Afsana, "a Thousand Legends". When the Egyptians copied Arabian Nights, they actually tried to make 1000. Anything and everything was used including Egyptian, Persian, Indian, Chinese, Mongolian, and even European stories. This is also why some nights are very short, splitting the story several times.
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Arabian Nights / int_9f50dbe6	type	Infinite Supplies
Arabian Nights / int_9f50dbe6	comment	Infinite Supplies: Subverted; Shahrazad runs out of stories eventually.
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Arabian Nights / int_9fda81a7	type	The Summation
Arabian Nights / int_9fda81a7	comment	The Summation: In "The Three Apples," there is a Summation Gathering mid-way through the story. Near the end of the story, Jafar gives the final summation, explaining the truth behind the mystery to Harun.
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Arabian Nights / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
Arabian Nights / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: Shahrazad, no question.
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Arabian Nights / int_a20460b8	type	Hot Consort
Arabian Nights / int_a20460b8	comment	Hot Consort: Scheherazade
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Arabian Nights / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Arabian Nights / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Ali of "Ali Nur Al-Din and Miriam the Girdle-Girl" hits his father in the face and puts his eye out. In The Porter and the Three Ladies the three Dervishes have lost one eye (and have had their beards shaved) and of course each has a long elaborate story about how that happened; featuring arrows, eye puckings, magic djinn ash-type-stuff and more.
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Arabian Nights / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
Arabian Nights / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Surprisingly averted as often as its played straight. For every backstabbing power-mad vizier, there's one urgently asking his lord if he should really be taunting the incredibly powerful and vengeful genie. Even those who are evil are less likely to plot against their king than against other people who might gain his favor—the Viziers in "The Tale of Sage Duban", "The Tale of Ma'aruf the Cobbler" and even "Aladdin" are all examples of this.
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Arabian Nights / int_a51467fe	type	Chest Monster
Arabian Nights / int_a51467fe	comment	Chest Monster: In â€œThe Fisherman and the Jinniâ€�, a dangerous djinn, trapped in a bottle by King Solomon centuries before, threatens the human who releases it. This is perhaps a borderline instance of the trope, but it makes the basic idea Older Than Print.
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Arabian Nights / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Arabian Nights / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The Sultan never receives any comeuppance for having a whole bunch of girls executed. He gets to live Happily Ever After with Shahrazad and their children. The Conclusion reveals that his brother has been doing the same thing, and of course nothing happens to him either. The guy who chopped up his wife and threw her in a trunk in "The Tale of the Three Apples" because he mistakenly thought she was cheating on him is rewarded with a stipend and a concubine. The Evil Vizier in "King Yunan and the Sage Duban." The sage is dead because the vizier convinced the king to kill him, but the king is dead because the sage's book was poisoned. No mention of who becomes king and whether the vizier was punished. It's possible he was if the king had sons who could take the throne; it's just not mentioned. It's just as possible the Vizier became king. Invoked Due to Values Dissonance, this happens many, many times.
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Arabian Nights / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Arabian Nights / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: In the "Tale of Kamar Al-Zaman," the princess Budur disguises herself as a man to go find her husband Kamar when he disappears. She winds up blundering into marriage with another princess. A very similar scenario occurs in "Ali Shar And Zumurrud", in which Zumurrud dresses as a man to escape a band of rapists and winds up being made king. Miriam of "Ali Nur Al-Din and Miriam the Girdle-Girl" kills a sea captain, disguises herself as a man, and takes his ship in order to escape with her lover Nur Al-Din. Jamilah of "Ibrahim and Jamilah" also does this to escape a palace guard and meet up with her boyfriend.
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Arabian Nights / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Arabian Nights / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Situation of the genie imprisoned in a bottle under the sea for centuries in "The Fisherman and the Jinn."
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Arabian Nights / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Arabian Nights / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Many times.
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Arabian Nights / int_aa2cd0c9	type	Motifs
Arabian Nights / int_aa2cd0c9	comment	Motifs: Recurring motifs are used to bind together several separate tales into a story cycle. Motor Mouth: The barber from "The Tailor's Tale," called in merely to give a haircut, who will not stop talking, much to the storyteller's displeasure. Start to Corpse: In the tale of "The Three Apples," a dead corpse is discovered near the very beginning of the story, setting up a suspenseful murder mystery. On the other hand, "The Hunchback's Tale," a more humorous murder mystery, the dead corpse doesn't appear until after quite some time into the story. Evidence Scavenger Hunt: In "The Three Apples," the caliph Harun al-Rashid, orders the The Good Chancellor, Grand Vizier Jafar ibn Yahya, who gets a Historical Hero Upgrade in this tale, to play the role of a Detective and sends him on a scavenger hunt to solve the murder mystery and bring the culprit to justice. Perp Sweating: In "The Three Apples," two potential suspects are interrogated, although the interrogation is only verbal and very mild compared to today's Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique. The Summation: In "The Three Apples," there is a Summation Gathering mid-way through the story. Near the end of the story, Jafar gives the final summation, explaining the truth behind the mystery to Harun.
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Arabian Nights / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Arabian Nights / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: In "The Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman, and his sons Sharrkan and Zau Al-Makan," King Omar drugs Princess Abrizah (his son's girlfriend) and rapes her while she's unconscious. Abrizah's father eventually has King Omar murdered for this. This happens many times in other tales.
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Arabian Nights / int_ac7df45e	type	Giant Equals Invincible
Arabian Nights / int_ac7df45e	comment	Giant Equals Invincible: Averted twice because of Plot Armor. The first is a giant, tower-sized black man who killed many caravans in the past and is instantly brought down by two (TWO) sword slashes. The second one in the following story is a huge man (his meal consist in a whole roasted ox) who, despite his size, is instantly killed by a single arrow.
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Arabian Nights / int_aca54dad	type	Discreet Drink Disposal
Arabian Nights / int_aca54dad	comment	Discreet Drink Disposal: In "Kamar Al-Zaman and the Jeweller's Wife", Kamar does this so he can have sex with the jeweller's wife after the jeweller passes out.
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Arabian Nights / int_af46ad7d	type	Evidence Scavenger Hunt
Arabian Nights / int_af46ad7d	comment	Evidence Scavenger Hunt: In "The Three Apples," the caliph Harun al-Rashid, orders the The Good Chancellor, Grand Vizier Jafar ibn Yahya, who gets a Historical Hero Upgrade in this tale, to play the role of a Detective and sends him on a scavenger hunt to solve the murder mystery and bring the culprit to justice.
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Arabian Nights / int_af98d5da	type	Thieving Magpie
Arabian Nights / int_af98d5da	comment	Thieving Magpie: "The Stolen Necklace" is actually stolen by a magpie, but a holy woman is unjustly accused.
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Arabian Nights / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Arabian Nights / int_b01abe4f	comment	Some translations avert or downplay certain elements of this padding. The translation by Dr. J.C. Mardrus and Powys Mathers usually skips over repetitive content with the phrase, "but nothing would be gained by repeating it here." That's still repetitive in its own right, but takes much less time to get through and comes across as more of a narrative flourish.
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Arabian Nights / int_b06186c2	type	RoofHopping
Arabian Nights / int_b06186c2	comment	Roof Hopping: In "The Tale of Ali Bin Bakkar and of Shams Al-Nahar," Shams Al-Nahar's handmaid and her companions resort to this to escape a band of robbers.
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Arabian Nights / int_b3a49cdb	type	Satire
Arabian Nights / int_b3a49cdb	comment	Satire
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Arabian Nights / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Arabian Nights / int_b4c406a6	comment	"The Tale of Ali bin Bakkar and of Shams Al-Nahar" is all about the titular couple falling in love and trying to overcome the fact that Shams Al-Nahar is a concubine to the Caliph. It ends with both of them literally Dying By Despair after being separated permanently.
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Arabian Nights / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Arabian Nights / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: This is a long, long, looong series of stories told about and by a woman who's a genius Muslim theologian... Justified, however. After all, the reason why Shahrazad is telling so many stories in the first place is to delay her husband from executing her.
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Arabian Nights / int_b7d85d68	type	Healing Potion
Arabian Nights / int_b7d85d68	comment	Healing Potion The water from the Fountain of Lions in the tale of Prince Ahmed and the peri. The magic apple in the tale of the Three Princes isn't a potion, but it has the same effect.
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Arabian Nights / int_b8ab7dc4	type	Treacherous Advisor
Arabian Nights / int_b8ab7dc4	comment	Treacherous Advisor: The Grand Vizier Jafar ibn Yahya is depicted like this in a few tales, though this is contradicted by a few other tales that depict him as The Good Chancellor.
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Arabian Nights / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Arabian Nights / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Many times, usually when a sorceress or a jinni turns someone into a beast to teach him a lesson. ... and sometimes just because they can do it. Queen Lab in "Julnar the Sea-Born and Her Son King Badr Basim of Persia" is an example of the latter type of sorceress: the first thing King Badr notices on entering her kingdom is the abnormally large number of donkeys, mules and horses on the streets. He later learns they were all her formerly human lovers whom she had transformed into animals after she tired of them. A big example comes in the latter half of "The Fisherman and the Jinni," wherein the titular fisherman is led by the titular jinni to a lake that is full of fish of four different colors. Each day the fisherman brings four of these fish, one of each color, to the Sultan to be fried and eaten, but due to the strange things that happens when he goes to cook them, the Sultan comes to realize that these are no ordinary fish. On trying to find out what's so special about these fish, he comes across a man who is half turned to stone, who is more than willing to tell him; long story short, the man's adulterous wife turned their entire city into the lake, and the fish are its people, with the four colors representing the four religions that they belonged to. And the Sultan was trying to cook them and eat them. Ouch.
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Arabian Nights / int_b9f6cc0a	type	The Bluebeard
Arabian Nights / int_b9f6cc0a	comment	The Bluebeard: King Shahryar is one, although his motives lie more in simple hate and madness than they do the usual motives.
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Arabian Nights / int_b9fc31d3	type	Victoria's Secret Compartment
Arabian Nights / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: "The Tale of the Jewish Doctor" — "she took out from the bosom of her shift fifteen dinars...." In "Ali Shar And Zumurrud", Zumruud the slave wants Ali to buy her, but he's broke, so she pulls a purse with a thousand dinars out of her Compartment and gives it to him.
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Arabian Nights / int_ba7b1199	type	Roc Birds
Arabian Nights / int_ba7b1199	comment	Roc Birds: The Trope Codifier, in fact: while rukhs appear in many older legends, this is the work where the most widely known and referenced story featuring them — that of the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor — was penned. The rukh appears in two specific parts of the story: In Sinbad's second voyage, he becomes stranded on an island inhabited by rukhs. He escapes by attaching himself to one of the enormous birds when it flies away and lets it carry him to the mainland, where it lands after reaching a valley home to monstrous snakes large enough to swallow an elephant whole — these snakes being the birds' main prey. In Sinbad's fifth voyage, he and his crew land on an island where they discover a gigantic rukh egg taller than a man. They break it despite Sinbad's warnings, and the unborn chick provides enough meat to feed the whole crew. This comes to bite the crew shortly thereafter when they try to leave: the furious parents chase them and bombard their ship with massive boulders, sinking it.
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Arabian Nights / int_bb0b2739	type	Nested Story
Arabian Nights / int_bb0b2739	comment	Nested Story: The Arabian Nights takes this further than most other classical literature by occasionally featuring a story within a story within a story, and sometimes goes up to six or seven layers deep.
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Arabian Nights / int_bd6b86df	type	Impossible Task
Arabian Nights / int_bd6b86df	comment	Impossible Task
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Arabian Nights / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Arabian Nights / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: In the "History of Gharib and His Brother Ajib", Gharib does this to a princess who is holding him prisoner and demanding sex.
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Arabian Nights / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Arabian Nights / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Shahrazad. Not so much a fighter, but enchanting as a lover, highly intelligent and possessing Nerves of Steel.
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Arabian Nights / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
Arabian Nights / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: "The Adventures of Bulukiya" gives his origin story. In an odd little tale called "Ibrahim of Mosul and the Devil", the Devil shows up at Ibrahim's place in disguise, teaches him a song, and leaves. The End. In "Ishak of Mosul and His Mistress and the Devil", the Devil shows up, gets Ishak laid, and leaves.
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Arabian Nights / int_c3ecb1cb	type	Cinderella Plot
Arabian Nights / int_c3ecb1cb	comment	Cinderella Plot: Several tales similar to the later story of "Cinderella" occur in several Arabian Nights tales, including "The Second Sheikh's Story," "The Eldest Lady's Tale," "Abdallah ibn Fadil and His Brothers," and "Judar and His Brethren." The latter subverts the trope by departing from the usual happy ending and instead features a tragic ending.
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Arabian Nights / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
Arabian Nights / int_c3fbac64	comment	Bestiality Is Depraved: In "Wardan The Butcher; His Adventure with the Lady and the Bear", the first catches the second having relations with the third. Violence ensues. This theme is continued in the next tale, "The King's Daughter and the Ape". In this case it turns out that the king's daughter is making it with the ape because of worms in her vagina that have turned her mega-slutty.
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Arabian Nights / int_c514c2c4	type	Gentleman and a Scholar
Arabian Nights / int_c514c2c4	comment	Gentleman and a Scholar: Shahrazad is a Lady and a Scholar.
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Arabian Nights / int_c63e7d67	type	Invoked
Arabian Nights / int_c63e7d67	comment	Invoked Due to Values Dissonance, this happens many, many times.
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Arabian Nights / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Arabian Nights / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Amusingly, one thousand and one cliffhangers.
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Arabian Nights / int_c8d9d7a0	type	Chatty Hairdresser
Arabian Nights / int_c8d9d7a0	comment	Chatty Hairdresser: The barber is paradoxically a talkative "man of few words" ("The Tailor's Tale").
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Arabian Nights / int_c91bf297	type	Iron Lady
Arabian Nights / int_c91bf297	comment	Iron Lady: With due allowances for limitations by cultural context, Shahrazad would qualify quite well for this.
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Arabian Nights / int_c9d80884	type	Scheherezade Gambit
Arabian Nights / int_c9d80884	comment	Scheherezade Gambit: Trope Namer.
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Arabian Nights / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Arabian Nights / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: In older versions, the Three Ladies of Baghdad aren't named.
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Arabian Nights / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Arabian Nights / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: At the end of the "Tale of Harun Al-Rashid and the Slave Girl and the Imam Abu Yusuf", the speaker says "So consider thou, O polite reader, the pleasantness of this anecdote...." Apparently the compiler of this particular tale forgot the Framing Device of Shahrazad telling stories to her husband.
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Arabian Nights / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
Arabian Nights / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: In "The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince," said prince is turned into a stone from the waist down. In "The Eldest Lady's Tale" a whole city of pagans is turned into stone statues by God, and all those who turn around on their way to the Talking Bird get turned into black rocks. Abdullah of "Abdullah Bin Fazil and His Brothers" finds another city of pagans that got turned to stone by Allah.
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Arabian Nights / int_d251db87	type	Alchemy Is Magic
Arabian Nights / int_d251db87	comment	Alchemy Is Magic: "Hasan of Bassorah", a coppersmith, meets a man who can turn copper into gold by applying a powder.
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Arabian Nights / int_d2d520f4	type	Our Ghouls Are Creepier
Arabian Nights / int_d2d520f4	comment	Our Ghouls Are Creepier: Ghouls features in numerous stories and are usually presented as not supernatural in any way, but just really creepy people who like to eat the dead. In one tale, a sorceress leaves her house at night and joins a ghoul in the cemetery, where they dig out and eat a corpse together. In "The Tale of the Prince and the Ogress," a prince encounters a beautiful woman who claims to need help, and accompanies her back to her house, where he discovers she is actually a ghoul planning to feed him to her children.
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Arabian Nights / int_d8e1b5a3	type	Soul Jar
Arabian Nights / int_d8e1b5a3	comment	Soul Jar: The "Story of Prince Sayf Al-Muluk and the Princess Badi'A Al-Jamal" features an evil genie who puts his soul inside a bird which he puts inside a bunch of nested boxes. Luckily, he tells the woman he's holding prisoner where he put the Soul Jar, and luckily, Prince Sayf has a special ring which allows him to find the Jar.
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Arabian Nights / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Arabian Nights / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: The frame story is set at an earlier time than many of the stories that it's framing.
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Arabian Nights / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Arabian Nights / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: "Ali Nur Al-Din and Miriam the Girdle-Girl". The Arabian Nights have their share of warrior women but Miriam is perhaps unique in that her boyfriend Nur Al-Din is an admitted Lover, Not a Fighter, kind of clueless, and basically a coward, while she is the brave fighter who protects the both of them. In one sequence when Miriam's family is pursuing the lovers, she asks Nur Al-Din for help, he begs off, and she proceeds to kill all three of her brothers one at a time in single combat.
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Arabian Nights / int_db454784	type	Offscreen Inertia
Arabian Nights / int_db454784	comment	Offscreen Inertia: In the Framing Device, Sultan Shahriyar and his brother, Shah Zaman, are betrayed by their wives at the same time, and decide together to marry a new woman every day and execute her every night. They rule two separate kingdoms. We follow Sharyhar, who at some point marries Shahrazad and is stopped in his mad quest, until 1,000 nights later his soul is healed. But only then does he travel to visit his brother and tell him of how his heart has been healed — reminding us that his brother hasn't stopped killing innocent women.
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Arabian Nights / int_dd3d1f69	type	Wicked Witch
Arabian Nights / int_dd3d1f69	comment	Wicked Witch: Zat al-Dawahi in "The Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman, and his sons Sharrkan and Zau Al-Makan" the evil old Christian crone who is a Master Poisoner and a Depraved Homosexual to boot.
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Arabian Nights / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Arabian Nights / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade - the specific vizier whom Harun al-Rashid killed. However, a few tales sometimes give Jafar a Historical Hero Upgrade instead, playing roles ranging from a detective in "The Three Apples" to a heroic adventurer in "The Tale of Attaf".
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Arabian Nights / int_e1ec1b15	type	Make a Wish
Arabian Nights / int_e1ec1b15	comment	Make a Wish: Several of the tales.
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Arabian Nights / int_e24d2d5c	type	Reptiles Are Abhorrent
Arabian Nights / int_e24d2d5c	comment	Reptiles Are Abhorrent: The only good serpent in these tales is a winged one who was later revealed as a Fairy (Female Djinni).
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Arabian Nights / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
Arabian Nights / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: In "Ni'Amah Bin Al-Rabi'A And Naomi His Slave-Girl," Ni'Amah does this to rescue Naomi after she's kidnapped into a harem. In "Ibrahim Bin Al-Mahdi and the Barber-Surgeon," Ibrahim does this after fleeing the wrath of the nephew that he refuses to recognize as Caliph. In "The Adventures of Mercury Ali of Cairo", Ali does this to steal some money. In "Ardashir and Hayat Al-Nufus", Ardashir, a prince disguised as a merchant, does this to meet his girlfriend, the noble lady Hayat. "Abu Al-Hasan of Khorasan" has to escape after sneaking into the Caliph's palace to romance one of the Caliph's slave girls.
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Arabian Nights / int_e41a9801	type	All Women Are Lustful
Arabian Nights / int_e41a9801	comment	All Women Are Lustful: Many examples, starting with the Framing Device.
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Arabian Nights / int_e9d589c5	type	Ingesting Knowledge
Arabian Nights / int_e9d589c5	comment	Ingesting Knowledge: In "The Queen of Serpents", protagonist Hasib acquires all the learning in the world by eating the titular Queen after she is killed.
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Arabian Nights / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
Arabian Nights / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Some storytellers throw up their hands and say "I don't even know the rest. But here's an even better story!"
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Arabian Nights / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Arabian Nights / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Harun al Rashid. His solution for many of the problems he has to face seems to be "execute Jafar along with 40 members of his family." Many male jinn are this. On second thought, the jenniya, too...
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Arabian Nights / int_ebab0a5b	type	Best Her to Bed Her
Arabian Nights / int_ebab0a5b	comment	Best Her to Bed Her: In the "Story of Prince Behram and the Princess Al-Datma", this is Al-Datma's precondition for marriage.
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Arabian Nights / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
Arabian Nights / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: "The Story of Janshah", begun on the premise of explaining what he's doing in the middle of nowhere looking depressed, rather abruptly ends with "and then his wife got eaten by a shark on vacation.". This after a fairly long story that runs in Burton from Night #499 to #530, in which Janshah works his ass off to find said wife and bring her home.
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Arabian Nights / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Arabian Nights / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: In "The Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman, and his sons Sharrkan and Zau Al-Makan," Sharrkan is challenged to wrestle by the Christian princess Abrizah, and he keeps losing, because she's so good looking. In the "Story of Prince Behram and the Princess Al-Datma", the title characters are jousting. Behram is winning until Al-Datma lifts her visor to reveal her pretty face, whereupon he is stunned by her beauty and she beats him.
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Arabian Nights / int_f1641c35	type	Ridiculous Procrastinator
Arabian Nights / int_f1641c35	comment	Ridiculous Procrastinator: Shahryar spends the entire story putting off executing Shahrazad for just one more day.
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Arabian Nights / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Arabian Nights / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Depressingly common theme throughout the stories. Does your wife backtalk you? Smack her around. Did your wife cheat on you? Kill her, and get a new one. Somewhat tempered by the prevalence of strong female characters, including Shahrazad herself, and that in the Crapsack World of the stories women seem equally likely to assault, maim, and kill their male cohorts.
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Arabian Nights / int_f604f64b	type	Dude, She's Like in a Coma
Arabian Nights / int_f604f64b	comment	Dude, She's Like in a Coma: In the "Tale of Ghanim Bin Ayyub, the Distraught, the Thrall O' Love," the girl that Ghanim discovers actually instructs him to wait until she's passed out drunk to kiss her.
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Arabian Nights / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Arabian Nights / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Shahrazad runs out of tales and tells the Sultan he can kill her. But he has fallen in love with her so he lets her live and be his queen. Though, from a modern perspective it could be argued that the story is only a Bittersweet Ending as Shahrazad lives but is still stuck being marrried to an insane sultan.
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Arabian Nights / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Arabian Nights / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: In "The Lovers of the Banu Uzrah", after the female lover is eaten by a lion, her boyfriend dies of grief and, per his request, they are buried together.
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Arabian Nights / int_f69d396a	type	Walk on Water
Arabian Nights / int_f69d396a	comment	Walk on Water: "The Adventures of Bulukiya" features the title character and a friend finding a plant, the juice of which allows them to walk on water when applied to the feet.
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Arabian Nights / int_f6e99f40	type	Youngest Child Wins
Arabian Nights / int_f6e99f40	comment	Youngest Child Wins: In The Three Brothers.
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Arabian Nights / int_f8f71b5f	type	Buried Alive
Arabian Nights / int_f8f71b5f	comment	Buried Alive: "Masrur and Zayn Al-Mawasif" is one of the more disturbing tales in the collection. Having cheated on her husband and lied her way into getting her marriage annulled, Zayn Al-Mawasif proceeds to have a slave girl tell her ex-husband that she is dead. When the grieving ex-husband visits the grave, the slave girl chucks him in and buries him alive.
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Arabian Nights / int_fab3235a	type	Easy Evangelism
Arabian Nights / int_fab3235a	comment	Easy Evangelism: People, Animals and Jinn are converted to Islam without demur.
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Arabian Nights / int_fc0b8320	type	Apparently Human Merfolk
Arabian Nights / int_fc0b8320	comment	Apparently Human Merfolk: Julnar of "Julnar the Sea-Born and Her Son King Badr Basim of Persia" belongs to a race of merfolk who look just like humans and can live on land without difficulty but prefer living on the bottom of the ocean. "Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman". The former catches the latter with his fishing net. The Merman then gives the Fisherman an ointment that allows the Fisherman to walk around underwater as well.
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Arabian Nights / int_fc7c4f92	type	Canon Immigrant
Arabian Nights / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: Many of the stories do not appear in the earliest manuscripts. This includes three of the most famous tales in the series — "Sinbad the Sailor," "Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba" for their part do not appear in any manuscript or copy before Antoine Galland's translation. In Burton's translation, only "Sinbad" makes the main collection; "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba" are relegated to the supplemental volumes. Another famous story, Les Soeurs Jalouses de leur Cadette ("The Story of the Two Sisters Who Were Jealous of Their Younger Sister", or Parizade, in other printings), does not belong to the original corpus of the compilation. Instead, according to Galland's diary, the tale was provided by a Syrian named Hanna Diyab in the early-1700s, before Galland adapted the story and published it as part of his French language translation.
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