The Sultan of Salford and the Serpent

The Slightly eccentric A to Z blogging adventure of unknown and rather unpopular Modern fairy tales

2013

s     The Sultan of Salford and the serpent

The sultan of Salford had a serpent, a large slippery scaly snake called Sydney. Sydney would sit smilling and Hisssssssing at the sultan’s servants which was a bit scary for them, he would also Hissssssssssss at the sultans sister who said to the sultan that Sydney was sinister.  Sydney would sit in the solarium sunning himself and Hisssssssssing at the solarium staff who would shuffle silently in a state of shock.

Then one Sunday morning Simon the snake charmer arrived at the sultan’s salubrious suburban sanctuary, “I have heard tale of a large sacred serpent smiling in a sinister way” said Simon. “It’s in the summerhouse” shouted the servants hoping that Simon the snake charmer was going to save them.

In the summerhouse, Sydney was stretched out in a sedan chair smiling and Hissssssssssing at a sparrow in the strawberry plants. . . . . .. . . . . “So” said Simon who sat on the sparrow and squashed it

Then Simon saw a Slug and said “a slug” and stabbed at it with a stick squashing it, Simon did not like slugs, and then as Simon sat down again he squashed a salamander, then as he put his satchel down he squashed a stick insect, He then squashed a spider as he was not keen on spiders either.

So Sydney slid sinuously round Simon and said “You have squashed some of my friends” as he squashed Simon the snake charmer who said “AAAAAuuuuuuuuuGGGGggghhhhhHHHH” a lot. But  the Sultans sorcerer saw Sydney and shouted “Sydney stop it”, but Sydney said “He started it he Squashed all these small creatures, it’s a Scandal”   So the Sultans sorcerer said a secret spell “squishiousiosa supersyxlia alacazam” and the Sparrow, slug, salamander,  Stick insect and spider all appeared staring at Simon who was still staggering about a bit. Simon said he was very very very sorry to squash them all and then set off at some speed into the sunset never to be seen again, not entirely a surprise, but he never squashed anything small ever again.

The Sultans sorcerer then said to Sydney the serpent, “you must stop smiling at the Sultans Staff” and Sydney Smiled Silently at the Sultans sorcerer for a few seconds and then went Hisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. The SULTANS sorcerer scarpered leaving Sydney Smiling Silently………

 The End

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