I was initially intimidated by the length of the video, thinking I'd have to split it, but the second tale was so engrossing that I watched it all in one go! I need more of these type of storytelling!!

This is the way these stories are supposed to be told. Can we please have some more?

After going through many KZread videos of Arabian nights and looking for a tolerable voice to listen to the stories I can safely say this is the best.

@BlueBlue-mm7kn

2 жыл бұрын

It’s NOT “Arabian nights” it’s “1001 nights” , Shahrzade who told these stories to her husband was Persian.

*My mother tongue is Arabic but I really enjoyed the way you tell these stories .. I hate how technology prevents our new generation of using their imagination while listening to such masterpieces..*

excellent storytelling. thank you for sharing.

What an amazing storyteller! I was enthralled. I love the art of storytelling and am so happy to have found someone that does it so well. For anyone looking for more stories by Jane Dorfman, just type in her name in KZread and many videos will pop up. She even has her own channel (channel name is her name). However, by doing a KZread search, more of her stories will come up that are not on her own channel. Absolutely LOVE this storyteller!!! :-)

I want some more! 😄

The way you tell these stories is just perfect. Expression, pauses, pronunciation, tone and emotion. Jane, you are generous to us, humble listeners.

why do i have a feeling that the carpet is gonna fly off when she is done telling the story.

@intisher9363

2 жыл бұрын

lol

Spellbinding storytelling. I've been completely transported this evening. The twists and turns, the struggles, the inventiveness of human beings who find themselves caught in seemingly inescapable situations. Storytelling this old touches very deep currents.

This was incredible. Story telling, like poetry recitals, are a lost art. I really should be mad at you. I was so engrossed in your story that it made me late for work. You are a true storyteller. Thank you.

I love this! As a kid story tellers came to my classroom and told us stories like this that marked me forever.

can i have more stories from you. i enjoy your tone and simple presentations very much. thanks

@janedorfman2941

4 жыл бұрын

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Dear Jane Ogburn Dorfman, It was so lovely to listen to your story-telling, I became a child engrossed in the story. I recommended these and your way of story telling to the professional trainers ( leaders), teachers and caring parents or loving carers , like my mother and mostly like my maternal grand mother who used to tell the similar stories with morals ! Thank you and Montgomery College teams, so much for the kind enlightening help in this matter. My wife, my Queen Siraja also is a great story-teller to completely engross the listener with her dramatic dialogues and mimicry of the people in the stories ! Appreciate your great service in story telling ! May the scientific-Almighty ( the all-knowing Almighty ) bless you with peace and emotional prosperity wherever you are dear Jane , in this Space-Time !!! ❣🌹👏👏👏

Great job telling these stories!

Wonderful story, and so masterfully told!

I have googled this incredibly talented storyteller hoping to find more content but have come up empty handed. Does anyone have any leads? I’m not sure if you can teach the art of storytelling, her energy and delivery is quite magical, I was engaged and transported. I hope to find more videos with her.

@anotherone113

Жыл бұрын

I’m trying to find more of her too. Any luck ?

AHHH these were told so well!! So so so much charisma and joy. Really enjoyed this

Can't believe she said "There is no God, but God" 😂

This is my homework 📒

Dear Mrs Jane, thanks a lot for such wonderful narrative!!!!! Definitely AMAZING story!!!❤❤❤❤❤

Love this! You're an awesome story teller!

that was incredible, you really brought the word's to life thank you.

I wound keenly listen the entire 1001 tales without puase had she told. Captivating storytelling indeed.

1. The fisherman and the djinn (2:39) 2. Qamar al-Zaman (9:11)

Fantastic! Beautiful storytelling.

I really enjoyed your storytelling. Thanks so much x

We Need More Stories From You

Basically she was old time audible or netflix :)

wonderfull!!!!!!!!

great story teller. I like your style

I'm not here!!! I'm at magical place...transported by you, amazing, gifted story teller!!!😍

Lovely. Quite entertaining. Thanks

Great stories👍

Great storytelling

Great.

Did she ever do more ? I need more episodes of her from the arabian nights !!

enchanted

In the actual story it's kinda funny that you have stories, within stories, within stories in which are more stories. Whenever someone is trying to explain a moral or ethical issue or a reason for why they took some action they will tell another story, when you are already in a story within a story within a story. When Sheherezade is trying to convince her dad, he tells her a story of a man who ends up beating his wife (after his wife keeps demanding something of him that will cause him to die, and so he beats her to come to her senses) .. the Vizier tells Sheherezade that he will beat her if she insists on her foolishness like the man did to his wife. But Sheherezade convinces her dad by not relenting and teling him that even if he beats her she will go to the Sultan herself and then tell him that he refused to let her marry him. During the story of the Fisherman and the Jini that Sheherazade is telling the Sharyar, The fisherman tells the Djinn multiple stories, in some of those stories like (the vizier and the sage Dunban) the characters in the story tell multiple stories to each other, and I'm pretty sure that in at least one of those stories one of the characters tells a story to another lol.. and then in the end the story of the fisherman after he releases the Djinn for the second time and the Djinn shows him the fishing spot with the 4 colored fish, the story kinda becomes the story of the old and young sultan's, as the old Sultan goes to discover the story of the fish he comes across a young prince who's bewitched and turned half into stone P.s. I imagine that this will leave out some of the stuff that make might people uncomfortable nowadays. Like how she says that Shahryars wife cheats with a servant .. but it's a black slave lol. His younger brother Shah Zaman's wife cheats with a black slave, who then travels to his brother Sharyar's court where he discovers Sharyar's wife also cheats with a black slave (and his concubines / wife's handmaidens with Mamluke / Turkish slave soldiers). Then they go out to look for someone mightier than they that is cucked even worse, and they find a Djinn that kidnapped a virgin from her wedding. Only she's a nymph that forces the brothers to have sex with her while the Djinn sleeps and threatens to have the Djinn kill them if they don't. They discover she has slept with over 570 men while the Djinn sleeps lol after which they return to their palace and Sharyar starts his whole marry a new virgin every day ritual. Which ends with Sheherezade who starts telling him stories. Many of the stories in which the women cheat on their husbands (often with black slaves, but I'm not sure how much of that is Sir Richard Burton Orientalizing stuff I do know that at points he makes changes, like the wife of Shah Zaman cheats with a black slave but in Burton's version he's a loathsome black cook covered in kitchen grime and dirt) or are generally extremely malicious. For example they will regularly trick men into thinking they have a chance with them, play with their emotions and then abuse them or take advantage of them, rob them or make them work for them for free etc. And of course many of them are evil cruel witches.

nice video!

where can i find more of this

I could listen to you forever.

Thaaaank you !

Does anyone know if arabian nights is a compilation of oral stories?

MORE MORE MORE!!!!!

@janedorfman2941

4 жыл бұрын

Not from the Nights but other stories kzread.info/dron/N2s9-NJ7LCTsPzzwNR1QeQ.html

there's a 1001 versions of 1001 Nights .. From pre_Arabia to Spain to Bengal....and beyond.

Where in the world is part two?? I kinda NEED it.

💚

We are thirsty for storytelling like a man in a dry desert.

Can we see the script?

I've been to Arabian nights

all ears

I wonder what happened to his father

@janedorfman2941

7 жыл бұрын

They do meet again later in the second half of the story (which is not nearly as good as the first, especially for the wives.) One might wonder why he didn't write.

@azizabdurakhman9401

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

She basically skipped the entire story of the Fisherman and the Djinn! The fisherman cries and begs the Djinn to not kill him and tells him "spare me and Allah will spare thee" but the Djinn only mocks him. And then the Fisherman tricks the Djinn to go back into the brass bottle (with a lead top, which was sealed by Solomon's ring, Solomon in Islam had power over Djinn) After the Djinn goes back into the bottle now the roles are reversed and the Djinn begs the fisherman to be merciful and the fisherman refuses at first. The fisherman as the lady says tells the Djinn he will throw him into the depths of the ocean and then warn all the other fishermen and anyone else that will listen to never let him out again. Then he tells the Djinn 3 or so different stories in which the moral of the story is that if the person in that story had spared another person, they would have been better off and because they refused to spare the other person, they die. E.g. In one story (Vizier and the Sage Duban) a mighty Sultan has leprosy and no healer manages to heal him. Until the Sage Duban comes to his city. The sage then heals him by putting medicine in a hollow bat, and making the Sultan play a game/sport with the bat till he sweats, the medicine then penetrates his skin and he is healed of leprosy. He becomes the Sultans closest friend and the Sultan makes him a rich man. But a jealous Vizier convinces the Sultan that Duban is an evil spy that if he can heal him like that he can also take his life by making him touch, smell or taste something. Tells him a few stories to demonstrate his point (yes, stories within stories, within stories etc). The Sultan then decides to execute Duban. Duban begs and cries "spare me and Allah will spare thee!" but the Sultan won't change his mind. Duban then asks for a day and tells the Sultan he has these books full of secret knowledge that he wants the Sultan to have. long story short the book is laced with poison. Eventually the Djinn manages to convince the fisherman by begging and promising him riches. The Fisherman lets him go and the Djinn shows him this secret fishing lake that always gives him 4 incredibly beautiful fish of 4 colors (blue, yellow, white and red). The djinn tells him to take this to the Sultan and that the Sultan will reward him for it. He does and the Sultan pays him handsomely and tells one of his maids to cook it. But when she tries a Djinn appears and chars the fish. So she tells the Vizier the Vizier of the Sultan calls the fisherman and tells him to bring the same fish again which he does. Same thing happens but now the Vizier witnesses it. He then tells the Sultan, same thing happens again now the Sultan witnesses it and demands the fisherman tell him where the fish are. The fisherman shows him and the Sultan decides he is so curious he is gonna find out where these fish come from and what their tale is, why a Djinn appears when they are cooked etc. The Sultan comes upon a beautiful palace between 4 mountains. In the palace is a young Sultan who is half stone half man and can't move. He tells the Sultan how his cousin/wife that he loved a lot was drugging him every night and then cheating on him with a black slave that was crippled and and had leprosy. He follows her to her lover then wants to end them both, strikes at the slave's head with his sword, thinking he killed him but only cutting his throat (somehow he survives, but he can no longer talk and is very sickly), his wife wakes up from this and he for some reason decides not to end her, instead he flees before she can see him. Goes to his bed and pretends to sleep. The next morning his wife has shaven her head and is dressed in all black. She claims she's mourning for her father and brothers who she claims all suddenly died. The Sultan doesn't confront her for 3 years. She builds a mausoleum in their palace and places the wounded black slave in it. Feeds him meat and wine every day while crying for the loss of her lover (who btw, is a massive racist and treats her like absolute garbage when he is still able to talk, yes the slave is racist, at least in Sir Richard Burton's translation) After 3 years the Sultcuck finally confronts her after first begging her to come back to him and stop her mourning. But when that doesn't work he tells her he was the person that wounded her lover calling her a prostitute etc. And he is so fed up with her he draws his sword. She in turn insults him and then mocks him.. after which she says a spell and turns him to stone from the navel down. She then turns all the people in the city into fish and the 4 islands around the city into mountains. The city has people of 4 faiths who turn into fishes of 4 different colors. The Muslims become white fish, the Christians blue, the Jews yellow and the Magi (Mithrainists? Zoroastrainists, not sure) into red. Every day she tortures the young sultan by lashing, making him bleed tons then she puts a vest over him that is designed to hurt his wounds. He begs and cries for mercy but she does not give it. Then after his torture she goes and feeds her lover and cries over him. The older Sultan hearing of his story decides to help him. He goes and kills the slave lover of the queen. Puts on his clothes and lays down. The next day the queen tortures the young Sultan and then comes to the chamber that the slave used to be in, and where the old Sultan is now pretending to be the slave. He then pretends to be the slave and talks to her. She is super happy because she believes her lover can finally talk again. He tells her that he would have healed long by now if it wasn't for the begging and crying of her husband and that she should let him go. She reverses the magic and lets him go. Then he tells her the same about the fish and how he can't heal and gets sick of all the fish crying all night while she is gone. So she changes everyone and the city and the island etc. And then when she comes back to the Sultan that she thinks is the slave, the Sultan tells her to come closer and then stabs her through the chest. And then cuts her in two. Then the younger Sultan tells him now the spell is broken he isn't 2 days but a whole year travel from his own capital city. The younger Sultan also tells him he will never leave his side and is forever in his debt. The older Sultan likes the young boy so much he tells him he wants to adopt him as his son, since he hasn't got an Heir. They travel back to his city together with an army of mamluke (Turkish) slave soldiers. There he is welcomes by his viziers etc that are overjoyed to see their Sultan back after they gave hope when he didn't return for a year. The older Sultan then orders that the fisherman be brought to him. He makes the fisherman super rich and marries one of the daughters of the fisherman while he marries the other daughter of the fisherman to his new found son. The fisherman becomes the richest man of his age. The Sultan and his new Sultan son live happily ever after. This is a summarized version. But the lady straight up skips 90% of the story. Same way she ignores the story Sheherezade and how the Sultan came to marry a virgin every night and then have her beheaded the next day. Two brother sultans (Sharyar and Shah Zaman) find out both their wife's are cheating with black slaves. They leave to find someone that's getting cucked even worse and they find a Djinn with a beautiful girl he kidnapped and thinks is a virgin. But she's a nymp that sleeps with hundreds of men while he sleeps. And she forces both brothers to sleep with her. The brothers having found someone mightier than them that is being cucked even harder go back to their cities. Sharyar the oldest decides he can never trust women again and that no man should ever trust a woman and so he decides he's gonna marry a virgin every night p.s. In the majority of cases the women that cheat, cheat with very ugly, sick, or disabled black slaves. In one story I remember it being a handsome Turk, but often it's a black dude / slave. Even in the stories that women don't cheat they are often horrible people that play with the feelings of ignorant and naive men to rob them or take advantage of them or just humiliate the men for fun, often also getting them into trouble with the community or law. the OG 1001 night and the most popular translations like that of Burton, are incredibly sexist and not very kind towards black people. But the moral of the story in the end (at least concerning women) is that "not all women are bad, even though it might seem like that sometimes" lol

Not i found some knowed how to tell a story!

lack of strength

This isn't an Arabian or Indian story's,so why you call it Arabian night??

@nimapishkesh6050

2 жыл бұрын

@@mariyabiswas3391 yes it does have a few indian an Arabian story's but gathering by shahrzad the Story teller and then became to the 1001 night story book!

@shyxpretion7429

Жыл бұрын

Because it was told in the Arabian tongue. in the islamic golden age the islamic empire has reach from china to Europe, it was a time where knowledge nd literature was the most important aspect of ppl lives. There were storytellers who would travel east nd west to collect folklore stories nd tell them to ppl back home in arabic. It was actually a genius way to preserve folklore of other cultures which made it survive until nowadays. thats why even tho it’s called Arabian knights the names nd places of the characters haven’t changed to Arabian but was preserved to represent its origins.

It should not be called “Arabian nights” as it was NOT Arabs who wrote “1001 Nights” ….Shahrzade was Persian.