Aladdin cave

A form of Aladdin's cave — a place full of valuable or unusual objects

Meanings

nounAladdin cave (plural Aladdin caves)

plural Aladdin caves

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Aladdin's cave.
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    The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity; for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.

    1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 8
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