![]() (English) Paul Haupt, "Open Sesame" in Beiträge zur assyriologie und semitischen sprachwissenschaft 10:2, 1927, p.↑ Theodor Nöldeke in "Zeitschrift für Assyriologie" (1914), as reported in Haupt.↑ Felix Ernst Peiser in "Orientalistische Literaturzeitung" (1902), as reported in Haupt.Thompson, Motif-index of folk-literature : a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends", 1955-1958. ↑ "The Novelist's Magazine - Google Boeken".↑ "Les mille et une nuits : contes arabes / traduits par Galland, ornés de gravures".Sesame is connected to Babylonian magic practices which used sesame oil.God or a kabbalistic word representing the Talmudic šem-šamáįm ("shem-shamayim"), 'name of heaven'. Sesame is a reduplication of the Hebrew šem 'name' i.e.Indeed, it is not certain that the word "sesame" actually refers to the sesame plant or seed. There are many theories about the origin of the phrase. His brother later cannot remember the phrase, and confuses it with the names of other grains (becoming trapped in the magic cave). ![]() In the story, Ali Baba overhears the 40 (forty) thieves saying "open sesame". Open Sesame has been classified by Stith Thompson as motif element D1552.2, "Mountain opens to magic formula". Galland's phrase has been variously translated from the French into English as "Sesame, Open", "Open, Sesame" and "Open, O Simsim". No earlier oral or written version of the story is known in any language. The phrase first appears in writing in Antoine Galland's Les Mille et une nuits (1704–1717) as Sésame, ouvre-toi (English, "Sesame, open!").
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