Scheherazade, the storyteller from One Thousand and One Nights tells her stories (Aladdin, Sinbad, …) to the monarch so that he would stop marrying and killing a new virgin every day after his first wife betrayed him. He had already killed 1001 women when they met.

Scheherazade For other uses, see Scheherazade (disambiguation). Scheherazade (/ʃəˌhɛrəˈzɑːd, -də/) is a major female character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights. Name Scheherazade’s Tales or one thousand and one nights, Mährchen der Shehesarade oder Tausend und Eins Nacht, by […]

Scheherazade, the storyteller from One Thousand and One Nights tells her stories (Aladdin, Sinbad, …) to the monarch so that he would stop marrying and killing a new virgin every day after his first wife betrayed him. He had already killed 1001 women when they met. Read More »