These may have been the slaves that the genie was referring to. However, the genie of the lamp frequently produces human slaves, male and female, black and white, to serve Aladdin, his mother, and the sultan. ![]() While that line is puzzling, there are no other references in the canonical story to the nature of any additional supernatural slaves (jinn or efreet) in the lamp. No, but there may be many human slaves living in the lamp. Is there any indication as to the actual number of genies in the lamp? Soane (1826), there are actually three female genies of the lamp named Astra, Mellora and Corella. There does exist a genie bound to a ring in some adaptations, and according to the Arabian Nights wikia, an 1826 opera names 3 female residents of the lamp: But she had no sooner begun to rub it, than in an instant a hideous genie of gigantic size appeared before her, and said to her in a voice of thunder, "What wouldst thou have? I am ready to obey thee as thy slave, and the slave of all those who have that lamp in their hands I, and the other slaves of the lamp." She took some fine sand and water to clean it. ![]() ![]() If it were a little cleaner I believe it would bring something more." In the original 1001 Nights' "Aladdin" ( Windermere Series translation as indicated in an answer here), the following passage indicates there was more than one genie in the lamp (emphasis mine):Īladdin's mother took the lamp and said to her son, "Here it is, but it is very dirty.
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