Look at the sky on one of summer's beautiful days, and you will see millions of stars twinkling in space... And if you gaze at them well, you will see that some of them shine more brightly than others. So ask your mother to show you "the Hunter's Star," so that you may be able to understand this legend.
This star shines more brightly than the others, and it stays in the sky until morning, guiding the hunters. Have you ever asked yourself, "Why does this star twinkle more than the others?" I shall tell you the answer, so listen well.
Every year, when Nature celebrates the feast of spring, when the sky is clear and blue, God commands certain stars to go down to earth to take part in the feast. Among the stars there was a little star who had long wished to celebrate the feast of spring with the flowers and the plants, but her turn had never come. So she said to herself: I shall ask my neighbor, "the Beautiful Star," to take me with her without God knowing of me.
When the day of spring came, on March 21, the little star took white wings that she had borrowed from some of the angels; she put them on and went down with her friends to earth.
The star was merry, caring nothing for what God would say when He learned that she had gone down to earth. She looked about her, astonished at the beauty of Nature, and saw the flowers dancing to the strains of the music that came from a little brook running through the garden. So she began to dance with "the Violet," and the Violet set about explaining to her the delights of life on earth and its pleasures, while our little star listened to her joyfully, saying:
"If only I could stay all my life in this garden and never go back to the sky!" The Daisy heard her and said: Come with me. Near this garden there is a great cave; if you enter it when the clock strikes one after midnight, you will see a giant come out of the earth, and with him the brides of the jinn. He sits in
the middle of the cave with the jinn-maidens around him, and then every flower or animal that wants something comes forward and lays its request before him; and if he finds it good, he says to the asker: "Go — I have granted you what you wish." At the end of the day the stars returned to the sky, not knowing that the