Why cats chase mice. Story for children

Douwil and Morthiguer is a beautiful tale of Éphémère that envelop the child in the magical world of spells, enchantments and dragons. Through this story we can give a fun explanation to the children of why cats chase mice , and why dragons no longer exist. A story that has been composed of parents

Douwil and Morthiguer is a beautiful tale of Éphémère that envelop the child in the magical world of spells, enchantments and dragons.

Through this story we can give a fun explanation to the children of why cats chase mice, and why dragons no longer exist.

A story that has been composed of parents to children throughout the centuries.

Tale of Douwil and Morthiguer, and why cats chase the dragons

Once there was, in the times of the maricastaña, a magician named Morthiguen who lived on the top of an immense tower located on Mount Fiero.

In those years the dragons flew over the villages and fields as if they were birds, and they crossed the skies day and night, embittering the lives of those who lived on the earth, but especially the cats.

The cats were their weakness, and they had fun chasing them everywhere and constantly harassing them.

The wizard Morthiguer liked to be alone in his tower, he did not like to be disturbed when he was doing his spells and magical tasks. But one day, the wizard Morthiguen was experimenting with his potions un and ointments, he heard a slight que sound that bothered him . It was a continuous murmur and plaintive, so the magician decided to go to the door, where the noise was, and see what was so annoying. Upon opening the door he found akitten shaking

with cold mewing to ask for asylum inside the tower. The magician picked it up and named it Douwil . Douwil and Morthiguenbecame inseparable and the magician did not imagine a day without him.

One hot day the magician went out to find new herbs to make a secret potion, dejó and left the open door of the tower to let in the fresh air. Douwil had not been outside for a while, so he went for a walk.

However, a dragon was flying over the sky, and when he saw it, he decided to scare the poor little one, and when he got tired of it, he was spat out by a great flare that ended his life. Morthiguer returned to the tower and found his poor charred cat

on a stone, and swore to take revenge on the dragons.

He locked himself in his tower and did not leave until he devised a spell to kill the dragons. One night without a moon, the magician climbed on top of a rocky peak and pronounced his enchantment

.

All the dragons began to writhe and shrink. The tail became thin, the wings fell off her body, and her little body filled with hairs. The dragons disappeared forever, of them there were only a few small animals called micethat ran everywhere.

Cats since then, they chase the mice to be able to revenge , and only the elephants remember that once those mice were imposing dragons, so when they approach they start to tremble with fear.

Reading comprehension exercises Reading comprehension is one of the important steps children have inlearning to read.

It's not just about understanding each word, but the whole text.

To know if your child has a good reading comprehension you can ask him / her these simple questions about the story:

- What did Morthiguer hear at the door of his tower? - What name did you put? - Why did the cat come out of the tower?

- What happened to poor Douwil?

- What did the dragons become?

- Why are elephants afraid of mice?