The story that inspired the name of this herbal black tea blend.
The Wonderful Lamp
Activate & Evoke A tea to energise you into action with a flavour that evokes exotic distant lands. Ingredients: Black tea Assam (South India), apple, cinnamon sticks, orange peels, mandarin oil, cinnamon powdered, cardamon, rose petals.
The Tale of this Tea:
Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp
An Arabian Tale
When Aladdin was a lad of fifteen years he met a man who claimed to be father’s brother, his uncle; but he was actually a Magician who sought to use Aladdin for his schemes. The Magician brought Aladdin to uncover a secret underground chamber, covered with a marble slab lifted by a copper ring. They opened the chamber and Aladdin was commanded to descend and bring back treasure, and especially to find a Lamp that was hidden in there. Aladdin went down into the chamber, there was a garden of trees covered with gleaming jewels of all kinds and colours, he filled his pockets and carried everything that he could. When he tried to leave the Magician demanded that Aladdin hand over the Lamp before he let him out. But Aladdin could not reach the Lamp because his arms were too full. This angered the Magician who believed that Aladdin wished to keep the Lamp for himself, so he put back the marble lid sealing Aladdin underground. It so happened that the Magician had given Aladdin a ring to help him if he were to get in trouble, but he did not know how to use it. In the darkness of the chamber he rubbed his hands in despair and happened to rub the ring. This activated the magic and a Djinn, a magical spirit, appeared before him offering to meet any desire that the master of the ring, this being Aladdin, may have. Aladdin wished to be free from the chamber and soon found himself above ground again, and very relieved to be so. His pockets still filled with gems and jewels. Aladdin returned home to his mother, who had been worried about him since he left with the Magician, whom she did not trust and doubted that he was her brother-in-law. Aladdin told her all of what had happened. Later his mother decided to clean the Lamp and unwittingly released the Djinn that lived inside. The Djinn declared himself to be the Slave to whoever was the master of the Lamp.
This was the beginning of many more adventures for Aladdin.
A version of this story can be found in: The Arabian Nights; Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
Translated by Sir Richard F. Burton