Magic tree

Once upon a time. . . . In ancient times, there was a prince having much courage with no afraid of anything. One day the prince went hunting with some his friends and was hunting on his horse that suddenly saw a beautiful deer. He galloped to take the deer. Deer went into the forest and the prince who could not ignore it followed it. But the deer was lost. He waited an hour hoping his friends to reach him, but no one came, since they dad lost the prince and had gone a way which would not reach him.
Everywhere the prince looked, was quiet when suddenly heard a voice behind him and turned around and saw a gray wolf standing. The horse of Prince saw the wolf and was feared and stampeded. Prince, with any difficulty, managed to keep the horse's mouth. He wheeled the whip and whipped the wolf to make it go in order that his horse to become calm. After some lashing on the wolf, a man shouted from afar how he dared to whip a domestic animal of him. Prince looked and saw an old man over there, and the wolf ran and went and stood next to that old man. Prince laughed and asked if this wolf is really a pet! He wanted the old man to take this wild animal away as soon as possible otherwise he would kill it by his whip. The old man said the prince that he would not have the courage to do such a work. Prince ignored and turned his horse and walked toward the entrance of the city. The old man shouted from behind that he would regret from his act done today.
But, listen that this old man was a magician and immediately changed himself as an old woman and went out and stood on the way of the prince. On the other hand, Prince who had not found his friends decided to go through a shortcut way in order to reach earlier. But he did not know exactly where he was going.
After travelling a distance, he got thirsty and saw the wizard as an old woman and asked her some water. Old woman became glad when saw the prince in her trap and said him that there was a spring in the middle of the woods with some water more pleasant than wine. She took him with tricks to that spring the water of which had been conjued. Prince drank so much water that no longer was thirsty, but when he wanted to stand up he felt dizziness and, in order to control himself, held the elm tree grown beside the fountain, but he was stuck to the truck of the tree and both of his legs went into the ground and rooted out and very soon he became an elm tree.
On the other hand, the men accompanying the prince as went this way and that could not find the young prince. So, they went back and set another person as ruler of the city to take his place. From that day on, each one was passing by the elm tree the young man began to tell him/her the story of himself, but none of them could understand his dumb words. When wood cutters came for cutting this tree, the helpless young man screamed with fear that he was not a tree but a prince, but wood cutters heard nothing but a sound like whistle of wind. When it was winter, coldness annoyed him so much, and when it was spring felt he had been relieved somehow and took a fresh breath. When two pigeons nested on his braches, he became really happy and sappy, because at that time he could understand the language of birds and had companions to confabulate with them.
It was mid-summer that pigeons said him that at that night the king of trees was coming to this forest and the noise of the trees at that night was from those trees that wanted to welcome the king. For making this noise they shed their dry leaves and shake their branches. The prince who had become so glad asked about the shape of the king. The doves said that he was tall and swarthy and robust and that he was living on a pine tree in northern forests and that, every year at mid-summer, he started to call on the trees to see how they were.
Prince asked them about the ability of this king to do something to help him. Doves nodded and said he should ask the king himself. Night came and it was dark. Although there was not wind, the trees waved their branches. Prince had been tired of waiting when King arrived and had the same stature that pigeons had said. As he stepped into the woods, asked all of them how they were. All of them said that they were fine, except a couple of trees that complained that their branches shed and a small tree complained that its neighbor was standing in front of it and so preventing reach of sunlight to it.
King listened to the screed of all, and when he wanted to go out of the woods, prince shouted him to listen to his complaint. He said that he was not from King's nation, but was a prince conjured by a magician and become a tree. King said he cannot do anything for him, but would search around the world to find someone able to destroy spell. King said him to be waiting him at the middle of the next summer. Prince also shook their braches like other trees and the king went.
The poor prince had no way but to wait. It was winter, and wind and cold was too hard to be tolerated. He had no companion to listen him. Spring came and pigeons came back again and now the prince was suffering easier the hard.
One day woodcutters came being with them a beautiful girl. She slept under the tree that was the prince at nights and the prince watched her. This girl who had fallen into misery when she had been grown was a merchant's daughter whose father had been bankrupt. Because the father was physically miserable, died and his daughter remained forlorn, and the woodcutter took the poor girl under his wing. Woodcutter's wife who worked in the palace of the king envied her and annoyed her so much and ordered her every hard work.
Prince became aware of her screed and firstly had compassion for her, but very soon he fell in her love. On the other hand, the girl also felt sorrow went out of her heart when sitting under the elm tree. She didn't know why, but felt that this tree was talking to her.
Woodcutters went into forest to cut a few logs to provide their winter firewood. The woodcutter who had come with the girl decided to cut the elm tree by his ax. He said to her daughter that he would cut that tree the next day and would make fire with its branches. As she heard these words, she burst into tears and begged him to leave this tree and go to another tree. Woodcutter laughed and said that she had become stupid that because of a tree shed tears. When she too insisted, Woodcutter said he deliberately must cut the same tree, because she had become very lazy. The girl was awake overnight thinking how to dissuade him from his decision and prevent cutting of the elm tree. Near the morning she had an idea. As the sun set and the world was shined, got up and went up the tree and sat on the highest branch of it and watched the mountains and the forest very well. She was watching around that the woodcutter and his workers arrived. Woodcutter stood before the tree and said he first axed and afterwards the workers should cut it. As he raised his ax to strike, a voice from the top of the tree said, "Oh miserable! Drop the ax. I am human being who has become a tree. If anyone beats me, he will die immediately."
As soon as the workers heard the sound of the tree largely were frightened and shouted that the tree had elf and had to escape before getting in any disaster. Whatever the woodcutter swore against them and laughed to them the workers did not heed and ran away as forcefully as they could. Woodcutter who was plucky said that he would show them that they were coward and miserable. Took his ax and wanted to strike the tree, but he heard the same sound. He was a little scared, but soon he rebuked himself for the fear. Again lifted his ax to strike the tree, but heard the same sound for the third time. This time, his heart became full of fear and his arms and legs trembled. At this time, a branch broke and fell on his head So, Woodcutter escaped as rapidly as possible. When Woodcutter got away, the girl said to herself if she would came dawn the tree it would be probable that the woodcutter would come back to took the life of the tree, so she remained there until evening. When the sun set it became dark, she fell asleep from exhaustion on a branch.
At the midnight, she heard a voice from below that she must come dawn the tree and that no longer he would be deceived by her, and just at that time he would cut the tree by ax. She trembled with fear and stress, and looked down and saw Woodman with a sharp ax in one hand and a lantern in his other hand. When Woodman had escaped and had reached his home and had noticed the absence of the girl, he had thought that she had gone up the tree and with a plan had wanted to frighten him in order that the elm tree would not be cut. So, he had come back into the forest. But when he noticed that the girl did not heed him shouted her to come down. When he noticed that she would come down not at all, lifted his ax to strike the tree, but suddenly all the branches of the forest's trees started to shake. That night was the middle of summer and the king of the trees was coming. This time Woodcutter became sure that tremble of all of these trees could not be her work. It was near to urinate himself from fear. When he was going to escape two persons were coming. Those were the king of trees and his friend, the great wizard. King shook his magical stick and Woodcutter was petrified. King came under the elm tree and raised his head and said, "Belle! Come down, do not be afraid. Good thing you did, it was correct. You dare and disaster day of you ended and happy days have come to you."
The girl came down the tree and King saw even in those ragged clothes, she was yet pretty and fresh. The Great Magician hit the elm tree with the stick he was holding, and she saw that large-scaled tree became small and shaped back to the same young prince. The great wizard welcomed him and informed him that the magician who changed him into tree no longer could do anything against him, because with this same stich had become an owl under the control of the queen of the land of lanterns. The wizard turned toward the woodcutter and said he should become an ape and would not return to his original shape unless he would plant as many as trees he had cut. The great wizard said this and hit the woodcutter with his stick. Immediately Woodcutter became an ape and went up a tree.
Prince thanked the king of trees and the great wizard much sincerely. Then took the girl to his palace and ordered seven days and seven nights celebrating and wed the girl, and until the end of his life they had a good and happy life together.