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When Baghdad became a trade and intellectual center of the world, stories from across the world and thousands of different cultures appeared in the city. Created in the Middle East at the height of the Islamic Golden Age, the folk tales have become famous over the centuries- bedtime stories for generations of children.

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Sheherazade  is the narrator. She is the wife of a cruel king who was so angry over his brother's heartbreak that he planned to marry and kill every woman in the kingdom until no women were left. Sheherazade volunteered to be the first wife, and the night before she was supposed to be executed she enacted a plan to save herself and all the women of the kingdom. She would tell the king one story every night, leaving him on a cliffhanger so that he would have to let her live if he wanted to know how the story ended, not knowing that the stories would never end.

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Many stories have been influenced in some way by this book. Most notably, however, is the Disney story of Aladdin, which is not only based on one of the stories but includes many references. One such reference is in the song Genie sings after meeting Aladdin. "Well, Ali Baba had then forty thieves. Sheherazada had a thousand tales."

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One of many great works of English literature inspired by the Nights is Candide.

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Hundreds of children's stories have come out of the magical and fantastical tales of the Nights.

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Even a ballet was created based on the tales.

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The brothers were turned into dogs for trying to kill the third brother out of jealousy.

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My favorite story was the fourth night's tale. I enjoyed hearing about the three brothers and how the two were turned into dogs.

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The wife of the third brother was actually a spirit. When she saw how jealous the brothers were of her husband and how they hadn't learned from their past mistakes or their brother's kindness, she turned them into dogs for ten years.

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The third brother, the spirit's husband, was an old man when he told his tale to the demon while journeying to ask his wife to reverse her spell.

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The two brothers were turned into dogs for sending their sleeping brother and his wife (the spirit) overboard so they would drown.

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The brother was telling the story to a demon because he wanted to help the man the demon was after.

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You can see the influence of my favorite story in other works. JK Rowling wrote The Tale of the Three Brothers for her bestselling series, Harry Potter. Call me crazy, but there's definitely some resemblance. Two brothers receive gifts they are ungrateful for and eventually get what's coming to them while the third lives a long life taking nothing for granted.