Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales

The magic wand, the fairy’s presence and celestial trinkets is what childhood is made of. Bed time stories are also suited as the best method to teach children to read. The goblins, dragons and the green dragon have so much of visualization that the child seems enchanted with the narration. We never seem to get over this fascination and adults too find a sense of happiness while reading fairy tales to children. 

A Small Plant

  There was a big tree in the outskirts of a dense forest. It was so huge that it provided shelter to the animals, birds and the villagers from the hot sun. Many villagers used to sit below the tree to relax and have discussions on various issues. The place near the tree was always busy with activity.

There grew a small plant at the base of the tree. Being a newly grown plant, it was delicate and tender and used to sway easily with a touch of breeze. The small plant and the tree were neighbors.

One day the plant and the tree had a small chat with each other.

The tree said, “Little one, why don’t you fix your feet deep inside the ground and lift your head bold in the air. Do it as I have done. Being the strongest it has protected me from all the dangers.”

The little plant replied, “I don’t need to do that. I am much safer under your shadow.”

The surprise tree replied saying, “Safer! You think you are safer than me? You know how old I am. I am deep rooted and have a thick trunk. Who can pluck me out and uproot me out of this place? No one can cut me with a single blow. Look at you, you will be dead even if a small kid plucks you”

The tree looked away in pride.

One day, a powerful cyclone struck the forest. All the trees were uprooted. Most of the forest was completely destroyed. The giant tree was destroyed from its roots.

After the storm had calmed down, the villagers started investigating the damage. Many of the strong and old trees had been struck down. The whole forest became littered with the leaves and trunks of the trees.

However, the villagers found out that the small plant was still alive. During the cyclone the plant had bent down, but after it had calmed down, the plant stood straight again. The strong tree under which it had taken protection had died by the striking cyclone but the tiny and delicate tree managed to survive the impact of the storm.

The Snake With a Gold Coin

There was a farmer called Shankar in Dani village. He was a poor farmer who used to toil the whole day in his farm. One day, he was working in the farm on a sunny day. Tired and exhausted by the heat he lay down under a tree’s shadow to take a small nap. When he was just about to doze off, he saw a snake with a huge hood coming towards his hands. His farm was not yielding high results since a few months. He said to himself, “This snake is my guardian. I haven’t worshipped it any time in my life. That is the reason I am facing loss in my yield.” Being a spiritual man, he bowed down in front of the snake.

He got milk in a bowl and said loudly, “Oh my Guardian. I was not aware you lived here. That is the reason I never worshipped you.” The next day when he was back in his office, the farmer saw one gold coin in his bowl. He repeated the practice of giving milk everyday. In return he would get the coin in the morning.

The farmer had to visit a village one day, so he asked his son to serve milk to the snake. The son did as he was asked to. As always, he found the gold coin in the bowl the next day. Being a selfish man, he thought, “The area seems to be having a lot of gold coins here. Instead of waiting for a gold coin every morning, I would kill the snake and get all of them.”

So the next day, when he was serving the snake milk, he hit the snake with a stick. However, the snake escaped his blow and in a fit of rage, bit the farmer’s son, who fell dead on the spot.

When the farmer came back from the village he heard about his son’s death. He cried and mourned.

After a few days, he went back to the farm and calling him loudly, he served him milk. He cried out loud but the snake did not give any response. After sometime, the snake came out of its snake hole. He said to the farmer, “Your son is dead and you still are greedy to get the gold coin. From now on we are not friends. Your son tried to kill me so I bit him. How can you I forget the pain he caused me? How can you forget about your son’s death?” The snake gave the farmer a expensive pearl and went away.

He said, “I will no more give you any coin.”

The farmer took the pearl and left cursing the sins of his son.

Prince John’s Search For a Real Princess

Once there lived a Prince named John. He always dreamt of marrying a princess. To fulfill his dream, he traveled around the world in search of a real princess. But he failed to find one.

He came across a lot of princess but John found it difficult to identify whether they were real ones or not. All of them had some qualities missing than the princess that John had dreamt of. He traveled for a long time, but was unsuccessful in finding the princess of his dreams. So he came back home, sad and miserable.

One evening, there came a dreadful storm. It was followed by lightning and thunder. Heavy rain poured in. Some one knocked at the giant door of the palace. The king went to unlock the door.

To the surprise of the king, a beautiful princess was standing outside the door. All soaked and drenched in the rain, the princess was looking beautiful and charming. She revealed that she was a real princess from a place called Honton.

The prince decided to judge whether she was a real princess or not. So, he went inside the bedroom. He removed the bedcovers from the bed and kept a pea underneath. Later, he took fifteen mattresses and put them over the pea. On top of that, he placed fifteen more quilts.

He asked the princess to sleep on the bed in the night.

The next day, the prince asked the princess whether she had a comfortable sleep on the bed.

Tired, the princess replied, “Oh, the night was terrible. I could hardly close my eyes to sleep. Don’t know what was inside the bed that pricked my whole body. I have bruises all over my body. It was really horrible!”

The prince thought, “The princess has successfully passed the test of being a real princess. No one other than a real princess would be as sensitive to identify a pea.”

The search of the prince to find a real princess was hence over. So the princess and the prince married each other and lived happily ever after.