Reading Notes: Arabian Nights Part B

Aladdin

• Aladdin is an idle boy without a trade whose father dies.
• A magician poses as his uncle and tricks him into receiving a magic lamp.
• Aladdin refuses to hand over the lamp and is trapped.
• Aladdin discovers a genie in a ring given to him by the magician and gets free.
• Aladdin uses lamp and ring to create silver plates and support himself and his mother.
• Aladdin lays eyes on the princess as she goes to the baths and falls in love with her.
• Aladdin sends his mother to ask Sultan for the princess.
• Sultan delays marriage of princess to Aladdin for three months at visir's insistence.
• Visir's son is married to the princess.
• Aladdin wishes for the marriage bed to be placed in his house and the son to be kept outside.
• The visir divorces the princess.
• Aladdin's mother returns to the Sultan and he demands great gifts.
• Aladdin wishes for the gifts and gives them to Sultan.
• Aladdin builds palace and marries the princess.
• Magician learns of Aladdin's success and returns to China.
• Magician tricks princess into trading the lamp for a newer lamp.
• Magician takes palace and princess to Africa.
• Aladdin returns and is brought to Sultan and nearly killed.
• Aladdin asks for forty days to return princess and palace.
• Aladdin uses the ring genie to get to the palace in Africa.
• Princess tricks magician into drinking poisoned wine.
• Aladdin, princess and palace return to China. 
• Brother of magician comes to China and kills holy woman Fatima.
• Brother tricks princess and suggests a roc's egg would look good in the palace.
• Aladdin wishes for roc's egg and the genie gets upset but tells him about the disguised magician's brother.
• Aladdin pretends to be sick and kills the magician's brother.
• Aladdin and princess live happily ever after.

Green = Yucky, why is this in the story. Not a satisfying ending.

Genie returns with food for Aladdin (Photo from Wikimedia Commons)

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Andrew Lang