Once upon a time, there was a lazy son of a poor Iraqi tailor, known as Alladin. One day after his fathers death, he meet a magician who posed as his uncle and persuaded Alladin to retrieve a wonderful lamp from a hidden cave. When Alladin failed to give the lamp to the magician before emerging from the cave, the magician became enraged and sealed the cave,leaving Alladin to die. In his misery Alladin wept and wrung his hands, releasing a genie from a ring the magician had given him. The genie freed Alladin, who soon discovered that the lamp also produced powerful genies when rubbed. They granted Alladin his every wish, and he eventually became immensely wealthly and married the daugther of a sultan. The magician returned to steal the lamp, but he was defeated, as was his evil brother who also tried to gain the lamp. Free from this enemies, Alladin lived a long, happy life and succeeded the sultan to throne.