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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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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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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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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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Unreliable Narrator | |
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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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Artistic License – Biology: In "The Tale of Hammad the Badawi," an ostrich flies. | |
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Title Drop: At the very beginning and again at the very end. | |
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Forgotten Phlebotinum | |
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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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Chaste Separating Sword | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Anachronism Stew | |
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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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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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Pegasus: In the "History of Gharib and His Brother Ajib", Gharib and his genie buddy each have a flying horse. | |
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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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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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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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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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Gender Bender: "The Enchanted Spring", in which a prince is changed into a woman because another man covets his girlfriend. | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | |
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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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Hurricane of Excuses | |
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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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I Call Him "Mister Happy" | |
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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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Recursive Reality | |
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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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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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Genie in a Bottle | |
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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_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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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). | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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Arabian Nights / int_4f4372e9 | |
Arabian Nights / int_4fdf21ad | type |
Magical Girlfriend | |
Arabian Nights / int_4fdf21ad | comment |
Magical Girlfriend: The young boy's slave girl, who also patronizes him. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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 | |
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", | |
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Arabian Nights / int_5565bf30 | |
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". | |
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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 | |
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. | |
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Arabian Nights / int_561dab6b | |
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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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." | |
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Arabian Nights / int_5e2e55e4 | |
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. | |
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Arabian Nights / int_5fd14ab3 | type |
Sacred Hospitality | |
Arabian Nights / int_5fd14ab3 | comment |
Sacred Hospitality | |
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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. | |
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Arabian Nights / int_6439de78 | |
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_66b98472 | |
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. | |
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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. | |
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Arabian Nights / int_66f69cd4 | |
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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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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1.0 | |
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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. | |
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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.) | |
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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. | |
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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 | |
Arabian Nights / int_771f6307 | type |
Brother–Sister Incest | |
Arabian Nights / int_771f6307 | comment |
Brother–Sister Incest: "The First Kalandar's Tale" (nested inside "The Porter and the Three Ladies") | |
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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. | |
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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_7e6c0522 | |
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_867b1f57 | |
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_898ff050 | |
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_8ff8d545 | |
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_90c018ac | |
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_929f27c5 | |
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. | |
Arabian Nights / int_944a85ea | featureApplicability |
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Arabian Nights / int_944a85ea | |
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 “The Fisherman and the Jinni�, 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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Slipping a Mickey | |
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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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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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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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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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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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Catchphrase | |
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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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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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Satire | |
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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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Healing Potion | |
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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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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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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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Impossible Task | |
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Impossible Task | |
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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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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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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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Scheherezade Gambit | |
Arabian Nights / int_c9d80884 | comment |
Scheherezade Gambit: Trope Namer. | |
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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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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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Alchemy Is Magic | |
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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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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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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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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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Wicked Witch | |
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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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Make a Wish | |
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Make a Wish: Several of the tales. | |
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Reptiles Are Abhorrent | |
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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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Disguised in Drag | |
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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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All Women Are Lustful | |
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All Women Are Lustful: Many examples, starting with the Framing Device. | |
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Ingesting Knowledge | |
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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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No Ending | |
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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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Jerkass | |
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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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Best Her to Bed Her | |
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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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Anti-Climax | |
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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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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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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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Ridiculous Procrastinator | |
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Ridiculous Procrastinator: Shahryar spends the entire story putting off executing Shahrazad for just one more day. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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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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Dude, She's Like in a Coma | |
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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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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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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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Together in Death | |
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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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Walk on Water | |
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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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Youngest Child Wins | |
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Youngest Child Wins: In The Three Brothers. | |
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Buried Alive | |
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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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Easy Evangelism | |
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Easy Evangelism: People, Animals and Jinn are converted to Islam without demur. | |
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Apparently Human Merfolk | |
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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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Canon Immigrant | |
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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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Literal Genie | |
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Literal Genie | |
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