*The Enchanted Storks*
*Once upon a time, there was a Cadiff the great ruler of the city Bagdad. In the evening Cadiff usually travelled around the city to know the lives of his people and listen to everything. One evening, he bought a magic snuffbox. Using the powder in the box he and his minister turned into two storks. The two storks flied around the city, the countrysides in an enjoyable way. When they wanted to turn into human, they read “Casalavair!” as the instruction from the box. However, they still remained the two storks. Desperately after some days to find the solution, they flied away to a forest, they met a crying woodpecker. The woodpecker was actually a princess who was spelled to become a bird because she didn’t want to be the wife of a cruel sorcerer who asked the help from a cruel magician who arranged to turn Cadiff into the stork to let his brother to steal his throne. The bird told them how to turn her into human by a way that a man has to propose her. Then the bird showed them the way to meet the magician. They came to that place and hid in a place to listen to the talk between his brother, the magician and his sorcerers. The magician told his brother he switched two letters in the instruction so Cadiff couldn’t return to human. The two storks spoiled their talk and their spelling by pummeling them then flied away. Cadiff and his minister returned to human after reading the fixed instruction. He proposed the bird then she also returned to human. Together they came back to Bagdad. He purnished his brother by banishing him by ship to the farthest end of the earth.*
*Author: Tuyet Huynh*
*Contact: tuyethuynh11112021@gmail.com*