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===Frame story===
The ''One Thousand and One Nights'' employs an early example of the [[frame story]], or [[framing device]]: the character [[Scheherazade]] narrates a set of tales (most often [[fairy tale]]s) to the Sultan [[Shahrayar|Shahriyar]] over many nights. Many of Scheherazade's tales are themselves frame stories, such as the ''[[Sinbad the Sailor|Tale of Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman]]'', which is a collection of adventures related by Sinbad the Seaman to Sinbad the Landsman.

In [[folkloristics]], the frame story is classified as ATU 875B*, "Storytelling Saves a Wife from Death".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Uther |first1=Hans-Jorg |author-link=Hans-Jörg Uther |title=The Types of International Folktales: Animal tales, tales of magic, religious tales, and realistic tales, with an introduction. FF Communications |date=2004 |publisher=Academia Scientiarum Fennica |page=499 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HVQsAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Storytelling+Saves+a+Wife+from+Death%22}}</ref>