The Story of Mushkil Gusha by Idries Shah

‘I sometimes wish that we would have some nicer food and different kinds of things to eat,’ a wood-cutter’s daughter tells her father one evening. Her simple request sparks a fantastical chain of events that sees the lives of the woodcutter and his daughter improved by the mysterious ‘Mushkil Gusha’, the Remover of Difficulties. On the following Thursday night, however, the wood-cutter and his daughter both forget to commemorate Mushkil Gusha – and their lives take another dramatic and unexpected turn, changing forever…