20. THE MAGICIANS’ WAR
#Inspirational Moral Stories
The Wizard of Ah had
declared war on the Wizard of Oh. Oh changed
himself into a wild
horse and galloped away. Ah saw him escape and
changed into a hare,
and ran off in pursuit. Just as Ah was about to catch up,
Oh changed again
into a wolf and threw himself on the hare. Ah would have
been torn to pieces
had he not changed into a bear, then Oh transformed
himself into a lion.
To escape the wild fury of the lion, Ah became a swan
and flew away. He
realised that Oh was chasing him in the form of a falcon,
and threw himself
into the sea, taking the form of a fish. Oh, who had now
become a shark, was
about to eat him in a single mouthful, when Ah
succeeded in
reaching shore just at the spot where the princess was doing her
washing. Ah changed
into a bar of soap which the princess was about to pick
up, when Oh appeared
beside her in the form of a gold ring. She had just
placed the ring on
her finger, when a merchant, who was really Ah, arrived
and bought the ring
from the princess. The ring shattered into grains of wheat
which fell to the
ground. The merchant became a hen which gobbled up the
grains, but one
grain remained hidden and it now changed into a handsome
prince, who, of
course, married the princess.
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