The Man Who Couldn't Stop Walking

There was once a man called Almeddin who, when he was travelling through the desert one day, found a crystal cave in which a beautiful woman was sleeping and entered the cave to talk to her.
Unfortunately, when he did the woman awoke and, though beautiful, the woman turned out to be an evil witch; an immortal evil witch who had been asleep for a thousand years.
"A thousand years, I've been asleep", said she, "And I was enjoying a beautiful dream until, that is, you woke me'".
And, as a punishment for disturbing her sleep, the witch put a curse upon him that he would never be able to stop walking.
And living with the curse was terrible for he could not even sleep without being tied to a bed or sit down without being tied to a chair.
But then, instead of feeling sad about his predicament, he decided to become a traveller and made it the point of his travels to find a cure for his curse.
First he went to the far East and to a cave, guarded by a giant, where, he had heard, there was a charm that would heal anything and even restore a dead man's life.
And, as he entered the cave, the giant punched him so hard that it knocked him unconcious but, because the man couldn't stop walking, he got back up onto his feet again and started walking towards the giant.
Then the giant hit him so hard that it knocked the mans head off completely.
But, because the man couldn't stop walking, his dead body rose back up onto is feet and, even without a head, kept walking forwards.
Seeing this, the giant got so frightened that it ran off, leaving the charm that it had been guarding and then, fortunately, the headless man, because he couldn't see where he was going, walked into the charm that, the moment it touched him, restored his head to his shoulders and his life to his body.
Unfortunately, even the healing charm could not remove the mans walking curse and so he kept on travelling and he travelled to the far west, to a place where he had heard there was a magic jewel that could turn anything, temporarily, to stone.
"Perhaps if it could turn my legs to stone then it would give me a rest from all this walking", he thought.
When he got to the place where the magic jewel was, however, he realised that it was on an unreachable floating island and he was about to go home, defeated, when his magic healing charm brushed against the stump of a tree that had been cut down hundreds of years before and, healing, the tree grew again but, not only that, it grew so high that it reached the floating island and so the man climbed up the tree and got the magic jewel from off of the island.
But when the man tried to turn his legs to stone the rest of him started to turn to stone and so he had to use the magic healing charm to turn himself back into flesh and blood.
But then the man travelled far to the South because he had heard of a magic golden feather that could make its owner fly.
"Perhaps, if I could fly, I wouldn't have to walk so much", he thought.
And so he  went to the cave, high in the mountains, where the golden feather was and the cave was guarded by a  giant gargoyle but, because the gargoyle was made of living stone already the mans jewel couldn't turn it to stone.
However, inside the cave of the Gargoyle, the man saw the bones of a dragon and so, throwing his healing charm upon the bones, he brought the dragon back to life and the dragon began to fight with the gargoyle and, while the two monsters were fighting amongst themselves, the man stole the golden feather and used it to fly, as fast as the wind, out of the cave.
But though the man could now fly he still wished that his walking curse was gone and so he flew North to a place of snow and ice where he had heard, within a cave of ice, there was a genies lamp that would grant 3 wishes to whoever rubbed it.
And it was guarded by a furry, snow serpent but, this time, the man used his magic jewel to turn the snow serpent to stone and, using the magic feather, flew away with the genies lamp.
No sooner had he returned home with the genies lamp however, when he heard about the daughter of a king who had been abducted by an evil wizard called Shaddaz.
And so the man decided not to use the genies lamp to lift his curse but to use it to rescue the princess instead and, flying with the help of his magic feather, he flew to the dark castle of the evil wizard.
And seeing the man outside his castle gates, the wizard ordered that his archers on the battlements shoot the man and a hundred arrows rained down upon him.
But he rubbed his genies lamp once and all the arrows turned around and struck the archers who had fired them in the heart.
So then the wizard ordered that his army be sent out to kill the man and, the doors of his castle opening, a thousand men dressed in black with shields and scimitars or long spears poured out.
But when they did, the man rubbed his genies lamp a second time and all the men in the wizards army were turned to a flock of black geese that flew away, squawking with fear.
However, then the Wizard himself appeared before the man and the Wizard was also carrying a genies lamp.
"You've only got 1 wish left imbecile", said the Wizard to the man, smirking, "Whereas I have a genies lamp with 3 wishes. So go ahead. Use your last wish to attack me. I will use my lamp to protect myself and then I will still have 2 wishes left to destroy you with".
And so the man wished for his lamp to switch places with the wizards lamp and then, using the wizards lamp, wished for the Wizard to be turned into a scurrying ant that then, out of fear, crawled under a stone to hide.
Then the man rescued the princess. He used the magicians lamp to remove his walking curse and his last wish was to marry the princess which he did and then they both lived happily ever after.