The Old Magical Tree and the Elephant

Once in a forest in a far end where the river starts grew an old oak tree. It was not a normal tree. It was magical. If you had a wish you could go to it. If you were good and obedient you could go but if you were bad and naughty don't dare even think about it.

There lived an elephant who was very rich. One day he went to the river to fetch some water for cooking. The tree said “What wish do you have”? The elephant said one wish only: “I wish my very beautiful wife to give birth to very beautiful children, 2 girls”. But the tree was deaf and instead killed his wife.

When the elephant went to the tree he took an axe and chopped him up and used him as a coffin for his wife’s burial.


Jade

June 20219

 

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