The Witches' Filter of Love
"Sevdale"
The "Sevdale" is a perfume.
In the Old Days, it was a common belief among the Witches that the "Sevdale" was a filter for love, a filter to bind together two people that have shared a great love. According to the legend, once upon a time, far beyond the entwined rivers, a woman fell desperately in love with a man. If it is true that love comes on a wing, then their story must have started somewhat like this:
He first saw her one day as she was strolling through the narrow streets of Thamas, and he felt as if he was staring directly at the sun. He fell in love with her and from that day on, he would wait under her windows for her to come out, and follow her around everywhere she would go, through the streets and cross the marketplace, begging her to accept his heart and take him as her lover. The woman fell for him too.
They shared a fiery love for endless nights. They breathed together, each of them living with the thought of the other, with a thousand dreams of happiness overwhelming them - and so the days passed in bliss, until, one day, a curse came upon them.
The woman searched for her beloved, but he was gone. She looked for him at his place, at people that were his friends, but there was no sign of him anywhere. And when she finally managed to find him, it was as if another person had taken her lover's place - someone distant, and frigid. Where had all his passion gone? Where was all his love lost and forgotten? What happened to all these common dreams of happiness? She begged him, but all her pleads drowned in indifference and mockery…So, she gathered the pieces of her broken heart and sunk in pain, a pain that seemed to have no ending.
The legend tells us that her soul mourned for her lost love, in absolute denial for life itself - until, one day, her sorrow made the Forces of Nature to kindly bend over her, and hope came when it was least expected: a friendly advice to visit the Mada (the Elder among the Witches), and ask for her Wisdom and Guidance!
The Mada looked at the girl and her heart melted with sorrow.
"I am suffering, Mother" cried out the girl "and I beg of you to do something for this pain, for I do not want my life if it is meant to be without him."
That was the first time, in the Legends of the Witches, that the "Sevdale" appeared.
"One single drop of this Fali*" said the Mada, "mixed with your tears shall perfume a letter. A love letter to the man you lost. One single drop of this Fali, mixed with your sweat, and you shall bake sweet bread for him to eat. One single drop of this Fali into the water in which you will wash his shirt - and when he reads, and tastes, and wears all these, then know that time has come for his return. And you, my daughter, you shall keep this Fali and you shall guard it better that your life. All day and all of the night your body shall be bathed in it, just like a living temple, scented and prepared for a God to descend in it."
*Fali = the filter of destiny
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