Once upon a time, lived a king who had 2 sons and a daughter. Every one was sure heir to the throne would be either of the sons.
Then one day, the king fell sick and after consulting various physicians, he lay on his deathbed when a magician predicted that he can be saved if someone could capture a Magic Parrot that lived far across the hills.
The Magic parrot could talk, was all knowledgeable and knew the cure to all existing diseases. He had been captured and set out there at the hill by some big Wizard.
Of course, the eldest son undertook the mission. He walked high n low, went through a lot of troubles to finally reach the hill. The magic parrot was perched in a golden cage at a large distance ahead. As the Prince started walking towards him, 'voices' started mocking him, screaming at him from behind. This continued and finally he angrily turned around. Immediately he got cast into stone.
After a long wait, the second son started on the same mission and after reaching the hill, he too started hearing the voices; after a while when he ran out of patience, he too turned around and immediately became a stone.
Finally the Princess set out on this mission (after dressing as a man coz as we know even a Princess is not safe in this world).
On reaching the hill, she started walking towards the parrot; she too started hearing the voices. They kept mocking her, screaming at her. She saw her brothers but walked past through them as well. As she neared the parrot, voices grew louder. Though tempted she didn't turn around.
Finally she reached the parrot and grabbed the cage. That's when he saw it was the Parrot who was talking in different voices so that people would be tempted to turn around and the Wizards spell would turn them to stone.
As soon as the parrot was captured, all the stone on the hill turned to men. She along with her brothers took the Parrot home and it prescribed the actual herb for the king to get well. The Princess was declared 'heir' to the Throne because
'She never turned back from her goal'
Or in Urdu
'Peeche Mudke nahi dekhna hai...
Warna Patthar ke ban jaoge'
Morals below By Samien:
MORAL 1: The world never treats girls equal to boys, even if they're their own parents.
MORAL 2: Girls can do anything boys are supposed to.
MORAL 3: Boys can be easily tempted.
MORAL 4: Girls don't want to argue instead they like to show their potential on the field.
MORAL 5: Girls have to be in the garb of boys (to show they are stronger, wiser, cleverer) in order to compete.
MORAL 6: Girls don't want to look into their past much (peeche mud ke nahi dekhti 😉) they are more into looking forward in life.
MORAL 7: Girls have to pass life's tests to prove their worth unlike boys who are born to rule the throne.
And FINALLY, no matter how many morals we can decipher from this folktale, everything will remain the same.
Pessimism??? Naah! Realism. 😜
