Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" is a famous story from The Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Asian literature. The story's hero is Ali Baba, a poor woodcutter who discovers a cave used by forty thieves to hide their treasure. He learns the secret password, "Open, Sesame!", which allows him to access the cave and its riches.12

Ali Baba uses the treasure to live prosperously, but the thieves become suspicious. They attempt to kill him by hiding in oil jars stored in his courtyard. However, Ali Baba's clever slave, Morgiana, discovers the thieves and kills them by pouring hot oil into the jars. Morgiana later saves Ali Baba's life again, and he grants her freedom. She marries his son, and they continue to live prosperously using the wealth from the cave.1