"Aladdin" is a folk tale from the Middle-Eastern story collection “1001 Nights”. Along with “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves”, it is known as one of the "orphan tales", later added to the original collection. Once upon a time, Aladdin was an impoverished young man who, in other circumstances, could not have aspired to marry a princess. Recruited by a sneaky sorcerer, though, Aladdin found the wonderful lamp in a cave. He discovered it contained a genie bound to do the bidding of the person holding the lamp. With the aid of the gennie, he became rich and powerful, he faced the evil wizard and eventually married Princess Badroulbadour.