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Gr 3-6 This story-within-a-story begins when a poor fisherman catches a brass bottle. Opening it, a genie that has been imprisoned for 3000 years is released and angrily expands to a great size, announcing that he will kill his rescuer. The fisherman tells him a story of a man who kills the doctor who healed him of a disease because the monarch found the cure humiliating, and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this original fairy tale, a fisherman spins out two stories to save his life when his net brings in not fish but an angry genie from the Arabian Sea. Instead of granting wishes, the enormous genie, bitter over his three-thousand-year confinement in a bottle, has sworn to kill whoever releases him. The fisherman tries to convince the genie that "you should never repay a good deed with an evil one" by telling the story of a king who put to death the man who saved his life. Within that story, the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More