"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" is a folk tale in Arabic added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from Syrian storyteller Ha
Cassim, Ali Baba's elder brother, in the cave by Maxfield Parrish (1909)
Poster for 40 Thieves at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1886
A depiction of the Forty Thieves.
The Forty Thieves attack Cassim.
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Aladdin is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with One Thousand and One Nights, despite not being part of the original text; it was added by the Frenchman Antoine
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
…A Comi Color cartoon, Ali Baba (1936) 1996 Disney direct-to-video film Aladdin and the King of Thieves, replacing Ali Baba with Aladdin. Soviet puppet film of the same name (Russian: Али-Баба и сорок разбойников) directed by Grigory Lomidze, filmed in 1959 at the «Soyuzmultfilm» film…
Aladdin finds the marvelous lamp inside the cave of wonders. A c. 1898 illustration by René Bull.
The Sorcerer traps Aladdin in the magic cave.
An 1886 theatre poster advertising a production of the pantomime Aladdin
New Crowns for Old, a 19th-century British cartoon based on the Aladdin story (Disraeli as Abanazer from the pantomime version of Aladdin offering Queen Victoria an Imperial crown (of India) in exchange for a Royal one)