The Staff of Light

In ancient times, a King of
all Priests by the name of
naMorhan created twelve
staffs, nine of which were
made of clay, another two
were crafted from wood and
the last, he made of silver.
After this, he ordered his
scholar-knights to find
second-hand bushes and to
trudgeon to death, with the
use of an oak tree, the
biggest herring of the
forest.  His scholars,
unitedly, said as a man;

     "No way.. Never!"

...  and went off, taking
with them the twelve staffs
of their King.  The wrath of
naMorhan was terrible - six
of his knights died in the
holy fire of the staff,
another three were crushed
under the weight of a
falling cow, and the second
from last of them lost his
arms, legs, wallet and also
his life in the fray,..

However, the last scholar
was able to flee the wrath
of naMorhan after persuading
him that he had now received
all sixteen divided by four,
times twenty-six divided by
twenty-two magical staffs,
and that he was obviously
better off than he was
before...

After he had left the King
of Priests, who had seated
himself upon a tree trunk in
order to think about this
more carefully, he tried to
find out the use of the
magic staffs, which was, in
fact - the facility to
gather and bind sunlight
and, on an order, to set
this light free again...

He wasn't very amused by
this discovery, and later on
he sold them for a few gold
pieces to a travelling
salesman who was obviously
half-blind.

