“The Three Wishes”
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Once upon a time there was a lumberjack who lived very
happily with his wife in a log-cabin in the center of
the forest.
Every morning he went to his work, singing, and in the
evening, when he came home, a hot bowl of soup awaited him.
One day he saw a tree with strange holes in the trunk.
This one looked quite different from the others
and just as he was about to fell the tree, a fairy's head
appeared through one of the holes.
'What is all this noise?' the fairy asked, 'I hope you are
not going to cut down this tree, are you? This is my home!'
The lumberjack was astonished and he dropped his axe. 'Well,
almighty,' he stammered.
'There are so many trees in the forest, why do you have to
cut down this one,' the fairy said with an stern voice.
Even though he was surprised and also a little afraid,
the lumberjack said bravely: 'I will fell any tree I
want to ….'
'Right,' the fairy interrupted him. 'Let me put it this
way; if you do not cut down this tree, you are allowed
three wishes. Deal?'
The lumberjack scratched behind his ear.
'Three wishes? Okay' and he began to look for another
tree. While he worked he kept thinking of the magic wishes.
'I wonder what my wife will think of this' he mumbled.
'Hurray, hurray! We are so lucky!'
The wife just could not understand why her husband was so
excited and she shook herself loose. Later when he sat
with a jug of wine at the simple table, the lumberjack
told his wife about the fairy.
She immediately began to
think of all the wonderful things the three wishes could
bring them.
The woman took a sip from her husband's jug. She smacked
and remarked 'I wish I also had a string of sausages ….
She immediately bit on her tongue, but it was too late.
Suddenly a string of sausages appeared.
'Sausages,' the lumberjack shouted. 'What a waste. I wish
those sausages were stuck to your nose'. He had hardly
said this when the sausages jumped up and were stuck to
the woman's nose.
'You idiot. Look what you've done.' The woman cried.
'Think of all the things we could have asked!'
The lumberjack felt insulted and called out: 'For two
cents .....'
Startled he halted, for he had nearly said: 'For two
cents you can cut off my tongue'. But when he saw how
his wife was complaining bitterly, he burst out laughing.
'If only you knew how funny you look with those sausages
dangling on your nose!'
'Let me try,' said the lumberjack who began to feel sorry
for his wife and wondered how he could endure living with
a woman with such a strange nose.
He held the sausages tight and pulled with all his might.
But he only managed to pull his wife on top of him. The
couple sat on the floor and looked with sadness at each
other.
'What can we do now?' they said, but both thought the same
thing. 'There is only one solution' the lumberjack's
wife said timidly.
'Yes, I agree', her husband sighed, thinking of their
dreams and very bravely he declared 'I wish the sausages
fell off the nose of my wife'.
And so it was done. The man and the woman immediately
hugged each other and cried. 'If only we had known how
to guard our words', they said.
The fairies had expected that something strange would
happen and had secretly watched everything that happened
to the lumberjack and his wife.
They thought it very funny. For they knew something humans
apparently don't. They could not fulfill any wish at all.
All the time humans fulfill their wishes by themselves.
Everything they believe always manifests.
All their
thoughts and words have power, because they express what
they believe. And if they don't believe in something,
that will not manifest.
The lumberjack and his wife believed that fairies have
power to do magic and their faith made their words very
powerful.
They were just another example of all those
people who wish for the strangest things all the time
and don't even know they do it themselves.
Even though the fairies don't understand humans and their
funny wishes, they have great fun with them!
After all,
isn't it very odd that people just don't see that
everything they believe always happens!
The End
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