Ali Baba and Forty Thieves Once upon a time, there is a man whose name is Ali Baba. He lives in a small town with his wife, his son and his son’s wife together. He makes his living by cutting wood. He is so poor but his brother- Kasım is too rich.

One day, while he is cutting woods he sees a troapof horsemen. He is afraid of so he hides behind a tree and watches them. There are forty horsemen. They are robbers. They stop in front of a big rock. One of them says ‘Open sesame open!’ and the rock opens slowly. They all go into the cave. Then the door close after them. After a short time the door opens and the horseman says ‘Close sesame close!’ The door closes and they all ride away.

After they go away, Ali Baba comes down. He says the magic words and goes into the cave. He can’t believe his eyes. The cave is full of all kinds of treasure. He loads his three asses with them. He goes out and says ‘Close sesame close!’

He gets home. He tells everything to his family.They want to count the gold. But it will take too long time so they decide to measure them with a bucket. They haven’t got a bucket so his wife runs to Kasım’s house to borrow one.

Kasım’s wife is very inquisitive and she wants to learn what they will measure. She covers the bottom of the buclet with honey. When the buclet is brought, they see a piece of gold is stuck to the honey. They are surprised and immediately Kazım goes his brother’s house to learn everything. Ali Baba tells him his secret. Then Kazım wants to get the treasure too.

He goes and gets some treasure. After he fills up bags of gold, he wants to go out from the cave but he forgets the magic words. He can’t go out and the horsemen return. They cut his body into four parts and kills him.

Kasım doesn’t return so his wife is very curious about him. He goes to Ali Baba to find him. Ali Baba goes the cave and find his dead. He brings his dead and want to show his death normal. So they find an old cobbler to get his body stitch. They close the cobbler’s eyes not to learn their house. But he counts his steps to find their house again.

When forty horsemen return, they can’t find Kazım’s dead. So they decide to go to town to find the person who learns their secret. They hears Kazım’s death, then find an old cobbler. They give him a lot of money to bring them to Ali Baba’s house. They find his house and make a cross sign on its door to find it again easily. When Ali Baba’s son’s wife- Mihriban returns home, she notices it and makes the same sign on every doors. Forty men come but they can’t find. Later they manage to find his house again. This time they come their house as a merchant to sell an oil. They bring a lot of large earthenware pots in which men are hidden. They plan to kill them at night.

Mihriban notices them. She boils a lot of oil and pour oil into these pots. She kills these men. By this way, they get rid of these robbers and pass a very happy and wealthy life together.