What To Do About Demons

One day a man came upon a bottle in the sand of a lonely beach. He looked at it and, realizing that there was a cork in the bottle, opened up the bottle. Immediately a demon, contained in that bottle since the building of the temple, jumped out and told the man that he was going to kill him as vengence upon all humanity and his incarceration.

The man looked at the demon and laughed! He said, "I don't believe you! You couldn't have come from that bottle! It is so small and you are so huge! It's a trick of the eye! You didn't really come out of that bottle did you?" To prove the young man wrong the demon shrunk himself down and re-entered the bottle whereupon the fellow stoppered the flask and looking through the glass said, "Ah! You are trapped again! Now I think I will bury this bottle under the largest rock I can find so that you can spend a large portion of eternity in there!"

The demon beseeched the man for release. He made the man a promise, he promised that not only would he not hurt the man or his family, he would give the man three wishes of whatever he wanted.

So the bargain was struck and the demon released.

Then came the wishes which the man chose.

The first was for riches and a huge pile of gold appeared in front of him.

The second was for a beautiful wife to make him happy. And a bejeweled and veiled beauty appeared in front of him.

The third was that the demon be stuck back into the bottle and be forced to give three wishes to the next man who found the bottle. At that, he threw the bottle out to sea and let the waves carry it away.

So... remember these things...

* There is some truth behind the "genie in the bottle" myths.

* If you find the bottle and open it, you will get three wishes.

*Always make sure that your third wish is to re-bind the demon.

Herein ends the lesson for today...