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The Beauty festival

In the middle of every March, nature awaited with great eagerness the arrival of Spring. He drove majestically his golden chariot studded with various kinds of flowers through all the corners of the earth to be covered with his green dress. Spring announced the organization of beauty festival where all creatures participated to celebrate the beauty of the nature and the creativity of the Creator. All creatures assigned a representative of their class to compete for the title and the victory of their category. The birds met and agreed to choose the peacock. The flowers chose the rose as their representative, the beetles choose the ladybird, and the donkeys choose their zebra...
All creatures lined up in front of Spring to be judged. Spring climbed up on his chariot to announce the winner. The creatures were waiting the declaration; yet, a sign of confusion appeared on the judge face. Indeed, spring could not announce the victory of anyone because everyone was incomparably beautiful. Competitors got angry and protested a lot. Spring conformably said: “all of you are winners .Glory be to the creator, the Creator of beauty in the best form of perfection”. Later, Spring gathered his green robe and went away..

Original Story by Abdou Abdellah
© 2026 Abdou Abdellah. All rights reserved.

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About Moroccan Folktales

Moroccan folktales (Hykayat in Arabic, Tinfas in Tamazight) are an ancient form of oral literature, once kept alive for centuries by storytellers — known as hlaykia — in Marrakech's Jemaa el-Fnaa square and villages across the country. Read more about this tradition →

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