13. THE DANCING TEAPOT
#Inspirational Moral Stories
A poor ragman once
found a badger held in a trap. Taking pity on it, he set it
free. This badger
could do magic and wanted to repay the ragman. Turning
itself into a pretty
teapot, it placed itself in the ragman’s sack. The ragman
was very puzzled on
seeing the teapot. He gifted it to the temple priests, so
that they would
remember him in their prayers. One of the priests filled water
in it and placed it
for boiling. And, the teapot cried out. The poor priest
screamed.
When the other
priests came, the teapot seemed to be boiling water normally.
But the first priest
called the ragman back and returned the teapot. In the
night, a small voice
awakened the ragman. To his amazement, he saw that the
teapot had developed
the head, tail, and paws of a badger! It told him to take
it to the market,
where it would make him rich by dancing for him. Indeed,
people were thrilled
to watch this strange object dancing about, and paid a
good amount for
this. In a short time, the ragman earned enough to last him a
lifetime. He was
grateful to the teapot and decided to let it rest. He took it to
the temple, where
the priests promised to take care of it. A thousand years
have gone by since
then, but the teapot is still in that temple, where it rests on
a window ledge with
the sun shining on it.
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