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"ONE THOUSAND AND ONE

NIGHTS"

Scheherazade is a legendary
Persian queen and she tells stories in
One Thousand and One Nights.The story, which was written many
hundreds
of
years
ago,
tells
of
a Persian king who married a young girl
every night. At the end of every night he
sent his new wife to have her head chopped
off. He had already killed 3000 women in
this way.
Then, one day, Scheherazade heard about
the king. She said she wanted to spend the
night with him. Her father was very worried,
but she spent all night telling him a story. At
the end of the night, she stopped the story
at a very interesting moment. The king
wanted to hear the end of the story, but
Scheherazade said:

You have to wait the next night to hear the

end of the story
The next night she finished the story and
told a new story, and she again stopped
when the day started. The king had to wait
next night to hear the rest of the story.
Scheherazade kept this up for 1001 nights.
She told him 1001 stories. In the end the
king was in love with Scheherazade and
they already had three children, so he did
not have her executed. Some of the stories
Sheherezade told were:
Simbad the sailor

Aladin and the magic lamp

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves