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Created on Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:11 |
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The name Mindam was granted to an old woman residing in a hut on the border of a forest, near a sacred spring. She was a good and virtuous woman in her own way, but she was foolishly kind.
One night she found an infant left on her doorstep. She took the child in and consulted the holy man of a nearby village. The man consulted his gods and warned the woman that the child was cursed, and to keep it would cost her her life. This woman looked at the child, and having no family of her own decided to forfeit her own life.
She raised the child as her own, teaching the girl her minimal knowlege of herbs and healing. On occassion this poor, simple woman would be unnerved by the child's otherworldly knowledge or the empty expression in her black eyes.
It was in the child's fifteenth winter that tragedy struck. The villagers awoke to the forest ablaze. After the fire calmed and it was safe to return, they discovered the charred remains of the old woman and her hut. The old woman's daughter was missing.
The remainder of life was lived in seclusion, close to the trees so similar to the ones she knew in her childhood. She took the name Mindam in honor of the only mother she had known, and gave it to the descendants cursed by her blood.
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