Jack And The Dream That Came True (Short Fairy Tale)

Once upon a time, the mother of a young lad named Jack had a very peculiar dream; almost a nightmare and when she awoke the next morning she told her son about what she had dreamt.

“I dreamed that you were walking through the forest”, she said, “When you came to a strange house made of brass bricks and entering the brass house, you found a silver box and inside the silver box was a golden trumpet which, when you played it gold coins fell from it but that, instead of the trumpet you took the pair of iron scissors that were also in the box, then you went into another room with a table and on the table was a golden cockerel that laid diamond eggs but instead of the golden cockerel you took an old tattered shawl that was also sitting, folded, on the table and put it on and then I remember, you went into a third room and saw a bed upon which was sleeping a beautiful young woman but instead of waking the beautiful young women you saw a brass bell and picked it up but then, just at that moment, I heard a terrible noise, the sound of the door opening and a voice like thunder saying “Who has dared enter my house, they shall pay with their life”.

The young lad admitted it was a very peculiar dream but he was sure that it meant nothing and so he told his mother not to worry about it.

But then the next day, as he was walking through the forest, to his amazement he came across a house, just as his mother had dreamed, made out of brass bricks and, entering the house he saw, just as she had dreamed, a large silver box and opening the box just as his mother had told him, inside he saw a golden trumpet which, when he played it, poured out gold coins but also, beside it, he saw an iron pair of scissors and, because he had taken the scissors in the dream, he ignored the golden trumpet and took the scissors then he went into the next room in the house and, to his amazement, he saw the table that his mother had dreamed about with the golden cockerel upon it that laid diamond eggs but he also saw a tattered shawl and, because he had taken it in his mother’s dream, he ignored the golden cockerel and took the shawl, putting it on but then he entered a third room and, just as in his mother’s dream , he saw a room with a pretty young woman asleep in it and on the floor beside her bed, a brass bell and because, in his mother’s dream he had taken the brass bell, this is what he did but just then he heard the noise of the door of the house opening and a voice like thunder, just like in his mother’s dream, say “Who has dared enter my house, they shall pay with their life”.

The voice belonged to the witch who owned the house and when she entered the room and saw the young lad, reaching out a hand, she cast a spell that bound him in rope but he used the iron scissors to cut through the rope; then the witch cast another spell hurling a hail of stones at him but the tattered shawl he was wearing protected him from the hail of stones, then the young lad rang the bell and when he did the witch put her hands over her ears and, howling in pain, she turned into stone before cracking and crumbling to pieces.

Then the young lad woke the beautiful sleeping woman who had been abducted and kept prisoner by the witch and he took the golden cockerel that laid diamond eggs and the trumpet that poured out gold coins and went home to his mother and, after that,he married the young woman and with the gold coins and diamonds he became rich then he, his mother and the young woman all lived happily together ever after.