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Scarce had Aladdin’s mother begun to rub the Lamp when there appeared to her one of the Jinn, who said to her in a voice like thunder, “Say what you want of me. Here am I, your slave and the slave of whosoever holds the Lamp.
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― Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp: A Classic Folktale from the ‘Arabian Nights’
― Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp: A Classic Folktale from the ‘Arabian Nights’
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Allow me to mention here that a stupid girl, one who spends the whole day picking her nose and lazing on the stove, and eventually becomes a princess or a queen, is completely unthinkable in fairytales! The imagination of folktale-tellers created an equivalent of male heroism in the characters of Slavic Amazons (the Russian Sineglazka or the 'Giant Girls', Div-devojke, in Serbian folksongs), but grubby, idle, and stupid girls are usually punished with death. Wealth, a throne and love are only co
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― Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
― Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
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