21.
THE COSSACK AND THE WITCH #Inspirational Moral
Stories
A brave
peasant, called a cossack, was attracted to the red, juicy apples on a
tree.
These were magical apples, kept there by a witch so that she could
capture
men. Just when the cossack touched an apple, the witch came. She
told him
that he had one chance to save himself: ‘If you remain hidden for ten
hours
and I can’t find you, then I will marry you; if you fail, you will be my
slave.’
Luckily,
the cossack had a fairy for a friend. The fairy flew with him, high
into the
sky. But, the witch used a magic book to tell her where the cossack
was, and
yelled at him to come down! Then, the fairy changed the peasant
into a
needle, using it to stitch together the pages of the magic book. Thus,
the
witch lost and married the peasant. She also became nicer, and the two
lived
happily.
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