Scheherazade’s One Thousand One Night Stories: Theme Change
Scheherazade’s One Thousand One Night Stories: Theme Change:
From Wikipedia:
The story goes that every day Shahryar (Persian: شهریار, “king”) would marry a new virgin, and every day he would send yesterday’s wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his first wife was unfaithful to him. He had killed 1,000 such women…
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