The wicked witch by looking at the future glass shut down her eyes with much explanations and whisper into his ears silently- she says, “It is ultimate danger to cross the river and the dark forest to reach the spiritual ghost. but, I will give you this lucky charm. You keep it on your neck and all the evils will be frightened of you.”
Choosing a shiny day he started his journey towards the dark forest by taking a very few things those were necessary he thought arrived.
He arrived at the riverside to cross, an one eyed helmsman was there, as if he was waiting for Gilbert- the one eyed helmsman said in a very dull but deep voice,
“I don't take impure souls to cross the river and since you are a pure soul I will take you to the other side.”
Thus he started crossing the river.
Continued…
Pure fiction. Any similarity should be treated as mere coincidence.