Ali Baba

Ali Baba happens to overhear a group of forty thieves visiting their treasure store in the forest where he is cutting wood. The treasure is in a cave, the mouth of which is sealed by magic. It opens on the words "Open, Simsim (commonly written as "Open Sesame" in English), and seals itself on the words "Close, Sims" ("Close Sesame"). When the thieves are gone, Ali Baba enters the cave himself, and takes few of the treasure houses.
Ali Baba borrows his sister-in-law's scales to weigh this new wealth of gold coins. Unbeknownst to Ali, his brother's wife has put a blob of wax on the scales to find out what Ali is using them 4. To her shock, she finds gold coins sticking to the scales and tells her husband, Ali Baba's rich and greedy brother, Cassis. Ali Baba tells Cassin about the cave. Cassin goes to the cave to take more of the treasure, but in his greed and excitement over the treasures forgets the magic words to get back out of the cave. The thieves find him there, and kill him. When his brother does not come back, Ali Baba goes to the cave to look for him, and finds the body, cut into many small pieces and displayed just inside the entrance of the cave to discourage any similar attempts in the future. Ali Baba brings the body home and, with the help of Magana, a clever slave-girl in Cassin’s household, Ali gets an old tailor known as Baba Mustafa whom he pays, blindfolds, and leads to Cassin’s house. There, overnight, the tailor stitches Cassin back together, so that no (1) one will be suspicious. Ali and his family are able to gives Cassin a proper burial without anyone asking awkward questions.
The thieves, finding the body gone, realize that yet another person must know their secret, and set out to track him down. (1)One of the thieves goes down to the town and asks about. He discovers that a tailor was seen leaving a home in the early morning, and guesses that the home must belong to the thieves' victim. The thief gets the tailor Mustafa and asks him to lead the way to the home. The tailor is reblindfolded, and in this state he is able to find the home. The thief marks the door by a symbol. The plan is for the other thieves to come back that night and kill everyone in the houses. However, the thief has been seen by Morgiana and she, loyal to her master, foils his plan by marking all the houses in the neighborhoods with a same marking. When the 40 thieves return at night, they cannot identify the correct house and the head thief kills the unfortunate man. The next morning, the thieves try again, only this time, a chunk is chipped out of the stone step at Ali Baba's front door. Again Morgiana foils the plan by making same chips in all the other doorsteps. The 2nd, thief is killed for his stupidity as well. At last, the head thief goes and looks for himself. This time, he memorizes every detail he can of the exterior of Ali Baba's home.
The chief of the thieves pretends to be an oil merchant in need of Ali Baba's hospitality, bringing with him mules loaded with 38 oil jars, 1 one filled with oil, the other 37 with the other thieves (the two missing members were the scouts previously sent to get the home, who were killed for their failure). Once Ali Baba is asleep, the thieves plan to kill him. Again, Morgiana discovers and foils the plan, killing the 37 thieves in their oil jars by pouring boiling oil on them. When their leader comes to rouse his men, he discovers that they are dead, and escapes.
To exact revenge, after few time the thief establishes himself as a merchant, befriends Ali Baba's son (who is now in charge of the late Cassim's business), and is invited to dinner at Ali Baba's home. The thief is recognized by Morgiana, who performs a dance with a dagger for the diners and plunges it into the heart of the thief when he is off his guard. Ali Baba is at first angry with Morgiana, but when he gets out the thief tried to kill him; he gives Morgiana her freedom and marries her to his son. Thus, the story ends happily for everyone except the 40 thieves and Cassim.Alternative ending: And so Ali Baba fell in love with Morgiana, and hence frees her and marries

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