There is a power in stories, and a power for good in all good stories.

The Arabian Nights

by Dr. Giuseppe Butera

“Be sure that you wake me an hour before the dawn, and speak to me in these words: ‘My sister, if you are not asleep, I beg you, before the sun rises, to tell me one of your charming stories.’ Then I shall begin, and I hope by this means to deliver the people from the terror that reigns over them.”

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/the-arabian-nights