Note 38 — ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES.[38]
Richard Francis Burton translation
Mr. Coote (loc. cit. p. 185) is unable to produce a puramythe containing all of “Ali Bába;” but, for the two leading incidents he quotes from Prof. Sakellarios two tales collected in Cyprus. One is Morgiana marking the village doors (p. 187), which has occurred doubtless a hundred times. The other, in the “Story of Drakos,” is an ogre, hight “Three Eyes,” who attempts the rescue of his wife with a party of blackamoors (μαύρους) packed in bales and these are all discovered and slain.