hello everyone and welcome to another episode of
« Rendez-vous Contes ». today I // Dumbledore: Welcome to all of you, my dear friends
to begin our story // no, no, actually, I'm sorry Dumbledore, it's
very kind of you
but I'll take care of this
So today // Dumbledore: I am the one telling the story vile little character! // no no but Dumbledore
Dumbledore: Go, shoo!
Our friends want to hear the story. // well exactly so ...
Today I'm taking you in a region where the king, whose I will not say
the name for fear of reprisals,
wants to be the only one to use Magic
He even created a small army of warriors with black wild dogs
to hunt down and banish magicians.
Dumbledore: What a better place to begin an adventure, isn't it?
one day, against all odds
he placarded in every city
« The king is looking for a magic teacher".
Here is the legend
of Babbitty Rabbitty, and her Cackling Stump.
you can imagine that no magician rushes to court to
apply for the job
but this situation turned to one man's advantage.
A crafty charlatan who knew nothing about magic, found there the means to
make easy money. So as soon as he saw the announcement,
he arrives at the king's palace impersonating a sorcerer with great talent
and supports his words with some very simple tricks. He is
immediately appointed Grand Chief mage
And king's personal magic teacher.
Snape: if we are to truly discover the meaning of these events,
perhaps we should,
let them unfold?
The quack immediately ask the King to give him a big bag of gold
to buy powerful magic wands,
rubies and silver cups for various potions,
and, credulous, the King agrees.
So the fake magician, having put his treasure safe,
goes for a walk in the park of the palace.
He pulls two small branches of a tree and
goes back inside.
But he didn't notice that an old woman observed him from a distance,
the laundress of the palace: Babbity.
In the palace, the charlatan gives one of the twigs to the king, and tells him :
Mad-eye : You're allowed
a wand !
The king waves his trophy and tries to cast a spell,
but without any result.
Worried, he turns to his "master" who tells him with
condescension it will only work when he will be worthy of it.
"I must have told you? - no.
well now you know!
So every morning, the stupid king and the charlatan are training in the park,
they wave their wands and shout nonsense towards the sky.
The fake magic teacher arrives to maintain the trickery
by continuing to do some little tricks, to ensure
the king the validity of its investments. But one morning,
during their "morning exercises"
while the King jumps in circles chanting meaningless rhymes,
a chuckle is heard, it's Babbity.
The laughter is growing,
so much so that the king asks about his lack of dignity if he makes such a laugh
for the laundress.
Annoyed, the monarch says that the next day, he will invite the entire court
to see the king make a magic show.
The quack, shocked by his student's statement, understands
it is time to retrieve his treasure and flee.
He invents an excuse not to be present the next day.
The king then turns to the magician and threatens him to send his army
of warriors and dogs, if he dares to leave the palace. He adds that if,
at performance, someone makes fun of him, he will cut off his head.
With that, he turns and goes back to the palace.
Alone, frightened, the charlatan understands that his ruse begins
to collapse. All because of the laughter of the laundress.
He goes at a rapid pace, fists clenched,
to the house of Babbitty.
What is his surprise when he sees the sheets of the king, to wash itself
in the wooden tub.
He understands that the laundress is a witch ...
a real one !
His anger evaporates in an instant and he throws himself at Babbitty feet,
begging her to help him the next day for presentation.
He asks her to hide in a thicket, while the king makes
his demonstration,
and to cast spells for him.
Babbitty, amused, agrees.
The charlatan, relieved, returned to the palace, satisfied with his new trick.
Snape: ingenious
The next morning all the ladies and lords gathered
in the park.
The king, in the center of his court,
announces the first trick, which is to make disappear the hat of a lady.
At the same time, Babbitty, hidden in a bush, stirs her wand and makes
the hat disappear.
Harry: "I love magic!"
Astonishment, admiration and great applause greet the monarch
delighted,
who, full of confidence, now announces he will make a horse fly.
He points his wand at his own steed,
which starts to take off the floor, through the powers of Babbitty, obviously.
The whole court is blown away by the power of the king.
So much, that the captain of the brigade runs to him, and brings to the stage
the body of a sorcerers' hunter dog. The King, confident
waves his wand
but nothing happens, the dog does not move, the crowd is first stoic, she whispers,
then bursts out laughing.
The king, angry, turns to the charlatan,
who's thinking fast to find a new trick
to get out of this mess. With a flash of genius, evil, he turns to the thicket
in which Babbitty is hidden, and says he feels the power of
a bad witch who throws evil spells
to bar the magic of the good king from operating.
Irrevocably
the witch hunters' brigade set off in following Babbitty,
who disappears at the edge of a hedge.
The whole court goes after the witch
and gather around the dogs
scratching the earth
at the base of an old tree. The quack says she has changed into a tree
and they must fell it to prevent her from taking back her human form!
An ax is brought and the tree is felled immediately.
Everyone is relieved and is preparing to return to the palace, but a chuckle
freezes them on the spot.
A voice rises from the stump of the felled tree and makes fun of the fact
that it is impossible to kill a sorcerer by cutting him in half .. and that
for proof,
they just have to try with the great magician in person ....
The captain of the brigade raises his ax without hesitation,
when the charlatan launches himself at the King's knees
and confesses his infamy. So he is send to the dungeon!
The tree stump speaks again
and solemnly announces that they have unleashed a dreadful curse.
Whenever a witch or wizard will be mistreated
the King will feel like an ax in his side
so painful that he will want to kill himself!
The king, petrified, falls to his knees and says to the strain that he will draft a proclamation
to protect witches and wizards
and authorize to practice magic in peace.
The strain orders him to erect a statue in memory of his laundress
and to remember forever his own stupidity.
Once accepted, the king, ashamed, returns to his palace
with all his court,
and when the park is again desert
an old rabbit, robust and mustachioed,
a wand clamped between the teeth
gets out of a hole between the roots of the strain, and goes away,
jumping,
through the park.
And from that day
no more witches and wizards
were persecuted in the whole kingdom.
Dumbledore: Our story is now complete
But maybe one day I will tell you some others
because tales still contain
darker stories.
And I know what I'm talking about!
Thanks to all of you young and old muggles for watching this episode
I hope you enjoyed the story.
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and the youtube chanel, and see you soon for an upcoming episode
of « Rendez-vous Contes ».
Evanesco !
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