Story: Tailor Tarantula Tabla & Tornado

There lived a tailor in a house with an old mother who had taught him her tailoring skills. All was well and the neighbours would flock to the house to get their dresses .

One day the mother was getting disturbed by strange noises from a neighbouring dilapidated old house where nobody lived. She believed that that ought to be a ghost. One day the tailor summoned the courage to march to the house to prove his mother wrong. It was dark and he tried pushing the door which wouldn’t budge. He then gave it a heave. The door opened the floor, the house collapsed and the tailor went right down into the old basement. His fall disturbed a tarantula who gave him a sharp bite on his legs and he crawled out of the house in pain, was tired and slept the night without telling his mother what had happened.

The next morning, his body became stiff and he couldn’t do his tailoring job. This condition continued for weeks during which the mother would stitch the dresses although slowly. 


His mother decided to bring her late husband’s tabla to his bed. Very soon the tailor was proficient on the tabla and word got around of his tremendous skill. He would go to concerts on his wheelchair since his legs were not able and became the talk of the town.

The mother had slowly forgotten about the ghost because of the new problem. One night, a tornado struck the town and carried with it the old dilapidated house.  As the house fell down, the tarantula fell on the tailor who was going to the concert in his wheelchair. Startled, the tarantula bit him again. Returning from the concert, he felt no longer needed the wheelchair, went to the tailoring machine and discovered that he had got back his old skill and was much faster.

The tailor is today fit – an outstanding tailor and a super tabla player. His mother is extremely happy and there was no dilapidated house and therefore no ghost.