Stories · How Things Came to Be

The Idle Camel and the Well of the Djinn

13 min · England · Wisdom · Letting go

In a vast and quiet desert, a camel who refuses all work is granted a strange gift by a gentle Djinn of the well: a weight he cannot set down. Wandering alone beneath enormous skies, he discovers that the burden grows lighter only when he bends to help, and that purposeful work is not the opposite of rest but its truest companion.

Retold from Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling.

Watch

Watch from this story on YouTube

Story 8 of How Things Came to Be, starting at 1:36:08.