Arabian Nights: Night 17: The Three Sisters and the Petrified City | A Thousand Nights and a Night

The seventeenth night: A lady reveals her secret to the caliph: how she and her sisters became rich merchants, how they encountered a city of stone, and how she met a young man who survived a curse.
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