Morgiana

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Morgiana is a clever and resourceful slave girl in the tale of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" from The Arabian Nights, famed for outwitting the thieves and saving her master.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf female character
fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Ali Baba
surface form: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

The Arabian Nights
surface form: One Thousand and One Nights

The Arabian Nights
appearsInGenre fantasy literature
folk tale
associatedWith Ali Baba
Ali Baba
surface form: the phrase "Open Sesame" (through the Ali Baba story)
characterTrait clever
loyal
resourceful
culturalRole archetype of the clever servant
example of female ingenuity in folklore
defeats the leader of the forty thieves
fictionalUniverse The Arabian Nights
surface form: The Arabian Nights universe
firstPopularizedBy French translation of One Thousand and One Nights by Antoine Galland
gender female
hasNameVariant Morgianna
Morgianna
surface form: Morgiána
killsBy pouring boiling oil on the hidden thieves
stabbing the captain of the thieves
knownFor courage
quick thinking
strategic planning
languageOfWork Arabic (original tradition)
laterAdaptedIn European translations of The Arabian Nights
literaryTradition Arabian Nights tales as transmitted in Europe
motive loyalty to her master
narrativeFunction foil to the greed and foolishness of others
notableFor outwitting the forty thieves
saving her master Ali Baba
occupation slave girl
originatesFrom Middle Eastern folklore
partOf the narrative cycle of Ali Baba
protects Ali Baba
surface form: Ali Baba's secret of the thieves' treasure
relationshipToAliBaba servant
rescues Ali Baba
Ali Baba
surface form: Ali Baba's family
rewardedBy Ali Baba
rewardType freedom (in many versions of the tale)
marriage into Ali Baba's family (in many versions)
servesAs servant of Ali Baba
storyRole heroine
protector of Ali Baba's household
thwarts the thieves' infiltration of Ali Baba's house
the thieves' plan to kill Ali Baba

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