A Wish with a Twist from the 2012 “Canadian Magic Forest Tales”
By Gypsy Joy.
Deep in Ontario’s Fairy Lake Forest lives a pretty and very talented Scottish fairy. One misty day while practising a dance routine and a new song she stood still in the midst of the forest. For a moment her thoughts went wandering off to Memory Lane in her native Fairytale Forest. Suddenly something startled her. At first she thought it was the sudden breakage of the branch of a tree nearby. The fairy almost panicked when she saw what seemed to be a big red squirrel jumping down onto the forest path. Can you imagine a big red squirrel in a Canadian forest? “Impossible”, she thought. “A black, brown, grey or even a white squirrel perhaps, but a big red European squirrel… no way! It had to be her imagination.” Rubbing her eyes it amazed her that the image stayed. The red squirrel did not seem to move an inch. Not wanting to be outsmarted by the magical tricks from an unknown source the fairy pointed her magic wand to the red squirrel and opened her tiny mouth to recite aloud a few magic words to vanish the intruder. The fairy could not utter a word and found out to her dismay that she also could not move an inch! She felt like a silent live statue! All the while, the big red squirrel did not move an inch either and did not make any sound but just stared at the pretty fairy with her magic wand pointing at him. He, too, did not seem to know what to do.
Firstly, he did not even know how and why he had landed in this strange fairytale forest in a land totally unknown to him and secondly why could not he move and why kept that fairy staring at him while pointing her magic wand and not saying a word? Both the fairy and the big red squirrel tried to think very hard how they were going to solve the situation they found themselves in when a family of deer passed by. The curious deer went around and around them but since neither the fairy nor the red squirrel could talk or move, the deer finally moved on thinking the two were just practising their theatrical stunts. During the hours that went by more creatures passed and looked amazed but nothing happened! It seemed the two were stricken with bad luck. One could only guess when there would be an end to their unfortunate situation.
It had become evening when the Man in the Moon casting his moonbeams to lit the forest path at Fairy Lake Forest in Ontario, wondered aloud in the darkened night sky why the pretty Scottish fairy and the Red squirrel both were standing silently in the dark forest. Scratching his head and wondering whether they had been bewitched, the Man in the Moon sighed deeply and taking a deep breath he looked around in the nightblue sky and whispered to the smallest star from the Milky Way that he was sending her on a tricky mission to Fairy Lake Forest to save the Scottish fairy and to guide the Red squirrel back to his native land. A little while later all went as the Man in the Moon had requested the tiny star to do and all seemed to be in good harmony at Fairy Lake Forest once again. The little star, twinkling brightly, flew quickly back to the Milky Way in the sky while The Man on the Moon closed his eyes for a short nap.
The Scottish fairy being a very clever and curious fairy did not go to sleep that night till she had found the chapter in her magic wand book and read by candlelight the story: “Why and How it happens when a Fairy suddenly becomes a Silent Live Statue.” After she had read the chapter she giggled so loud that the Man in the Moon woke up from his nap. He wanted to know what the giggling was all about and promised the fairy that he would never tell anyone about it. When the Scottish fairy whispered to him what she had found out, the Man in the Moon, laughed so hard that the stars who had fallen asleep, woke up. Needless to say they, too, wanted to know why the fairy and the Man in the Moon were laughing so loud. By now the whole forest seemed to be awake and they all were anxious to know what had happened. The pretty Scottish fairy not wanting to be the laughing stock of the Fairy Lake Forest told everyone that it was a secret between her and the Man in the Moon which she could not reveal else the Fairy Lake Forest would be in deep trouble.
Perhaps the pretty Scottish Fairy’s answer was the best for all because if the fairy would have revealed the simple truth, no doubt, all the fairies and creatures living at Fairy Lake Forest and perhaps even all the heavenly stars would have tried to become a silent live statue. Now imagine if there would not be a single tiny star left for the Man on the Moon to send to resque the heavenly stars, we on earth could no longer hope that a wish upon a falling star would ever come true as there never would be again a twinkling falling star to wish upon.
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Enjoy a taste of Scotland’s fairytale forests and a big fluffy Red squirrel
who makes its home there and can be found throughout Europe.
