ShopDreamUp AI ArtDreamUp
Deviation Actions
Suggested Deviants
Suggested Collections
You Might Like…
Featured in Groups
Comments11
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
After starting to read "Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic", and realizing many of the characters were inspired from "The One-Thousand-and-One Nights", I took up that book and tried to find where Morgiana came from. If anyone's interested (like I was)...
Like Cassim and Alibaba (obviously), Morgiana is from "The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves". While most people know about the first half of that story, with the hidden cave full of plunder that can only be opened from outside by "Open, Sesame" and only opened from inside by "Close, Sesame", Morgiana is the principal character in the second half. After the forty thieves deduce they've been counter-plundered by Ali Baba, they hatch various plans to kill him in revenge, but are continuously foiled by the cleverness of his girl-slave Morgiana who eventually kills almost all of the forty thieves herself. In the end, she's rewarded with her freedom and marries Ali Baba's nephew.
Like Cassim and Alibaba (obviously), Morgiana is from "The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves". While most people know about the first half of that story, with the hidden cave full of plunder that can only be opened from outside by "Open, Sesame" and only opened from inside by "Close, Sesame", Morgiana is the principal character in the second half. After the forty thieves deduce they've been counter-plundered by Ali Baba, they hatch various plans to kill him in revenge, but are continuously foiled by the cleverness of his girl-slave Morgiana who eventually kills almost all of the forty thieves herself. In the end, she's rewarded with her freedom and marries Ali Baba's nephew.