The Flying Turtle

It is told that near a small lake in the middle of the forest lived a small turtle and two ducks in love and harmony. The turtle was known for her chatter and inability to refrain from speaking. In the summer season, severe drought afflicted the place around the lake to a pond that almost dried of water. The two ducks decided to leave in search of a water source to live near. When the turtle heard their decision, she was very sad and knew that her end was inevitable. She couldn’t live without water, nor could she travel long distances due to her extreme slowness. ...

The Rabbit and the Chameleon

In a beautiful field, the ground was covered with grass in the spring season after rain fell in the winter season. The beautiful green leaves of trees appeared. The animals were very happy in the spring season because there was much food. They would eat and be satisfied. Rabbits, cows, and sheep would eat green grass. Lizards would eat flies and other insects that abound in the spring season. The beautiful white rabbit was eating long grass under the trees. He looked up and found the chameleon looking at him. The rabbit said to her: Spring is beautiful, oh chameleon. She said: Yes, yes, and there is much food, so I am very happy. The rabbit asked her: Tell me, oh chameleon, why do you like to stay on tree branches? She said: Because here I catch many flies and eat them. You know that flies like to fly between tree branches. The little rabbits saw their father the rabbit talking to the chameleon, so they approached him. The mother rabbit also came to hear the conversation as well. ...

The Sun and the Moon

It is told that in the distant, very distant past, the Sun lived on Earth, just as the Sea lives on it. The Sun was used to visiting him from time to time, perhaps staying with him for a long time, exchanging enjoyable conversation with him, and conveying the news of this universe that was still a small infant. The conversation between the Sun and the Sea: One day, the Sun noticed a matter that she confided to her friend the Sea. She said to the Sea: I have repeated my visit to you! The Sea answered: It’s generosity from you without doubt! She said: But you never returned the visit to me! The Sea answered: My circumstances prevent me from that, unfortunately! She said to him: What are these circumstances that stand between you and performing the duty?! ...

From Varto's Window

Where the green fortress that surrounds Copenhagen is, there is a wide courtyard with red bricks and many windows. In the pots on its balconies grew small balsam and sandalwood. The house looked inside through the windows poor, inhabited by old, poor people. It is Varto! Drama of life: Look high on the window sill, an old spinster leans, picking withered leaves from the lilac and looking at the green fortress, where children roll with joy. What might she be thinking? An entire drama of life gathers in her mind. ...

The Giving Tree

In a forest on the outskirts of a city, there was a beautiful green tree with long, dense branches and many green leaves that swayed gently with the wind. Birds would come to it from distant places and sing the most beautiful songs. It was a beautiful and happy tree. It formed a special relationship with a small boy from a neighboring village where he would come to it daily after school, eat from its apples and play with it. They would talk for hours and hours. He was used to sharing with her everything, his thoughts and future plans. ...

The Droplet Laila

The droplet Laila opened her eyes and found herself hanging on a beautiful colorful umbrella. She saw a big world around her. Everyone in it was wearing woolen coats in many colors that dazzled this small water droplet. Some covered their heads with hats protecting them from the winter cold. Laila started looking right and left, marveling at the fast movement around her, until she lost her balance and fell to the ground. When Laila fell, she fell on the head of another water droplet named Doudi. ...

Jealousy

A man had two wives. One was named Zeinab, beautiful and吵ing a lot, and her husband never loved her or wanted to marry her, because every time he came to Zeinab she would be upset with his wife and beat her with a hand between them while she was sleeping at night, and in the day she would go out early with her son’s wife’s small clothes to put on him, and then take the sheep and the animals to the fields and pastures where she would find food for her son and his wife, and she would remember her husband’s good deeds and what he had done for her. He left her with love and kindness, so whenever she woke up before the sun rose, she would wake up her son’s wife, dress her with new clothes, and take a bowl of milk and foods to the fields and plains where the sun would go down. ...

Unable to Tolerate More

There were two doors in the same house. One of them was a door of wisdom, while the other was a door of food. But the common matter between them was that they lived a life like cats. The house was full of children who were吵ing a lot and not obeying anyone’s order, and they did not stop at hitting the two doors, for they were hitting those two doors day after day. ...

Dreamt I Dreamt a Stragner

One morning, I woke up early and was not prepared that I was wise. I called with a loud voice, “Mother, Mother. My mother entered to my room while I was telling her, “Wake up, O my dear child. What is wrong with you?” I said to her, “Mother, I dreamt a strange dream last night and was frightened a lot.” My mother sat on the edge of the bed, scolded me, and asked, “What did you see in the dream? For I saw, O mother, that when I was returning from the school and did not find the way to the house and could not distinguish myself from the other voices, so I asked the mother, how is that?” The daughter said, “This, my daughter, is what happened. For everything around me was voices, trees, flowers, trees, and the wind and the clouds.” ...

Ruman and the Magic Spring

Uncle Jamil owned a beautiful, green orchard where birds sang, played among the branches, and bees flew among the flowers. A spring ran through the orchard, watering the almond, apple, peach, fig, and olive trees. There was a small tree named Ruman. Ruman was a small, pampered tree in the orchard. The wind played with its luscious branches, and the sweet spring waters watered its roots. With the arrival of the spring season, Ruman wore a green robe, but it did not bear flowers or fruit like the other trees because it was still small. ...