imagine....you can : Merlin the magician

The story tells that one day, Merlin was in Benoico, where he went to tell the Court that King Claudas of the desert Land was going to assault the reign. On the way back, while passing through Brocéliande, he found the Fontaine de Barenton, the Source of the Fairies. Next to it, there was a wonderful twelve year old girl, who made him fall in love: she was Vivian, the Lady of the Lake. Soon, love blossomed between them and Merlin promised he would have told her the secrets of every spell he knew, but one. To make her understand his power, he traced a circle on the ground, from which ladies, knights, a castle and lots of flowers came out. The girl was amazed. So, Merlin started shuttling between Brittany and England, and, during his numerous visits to Brocéliade, he used to tell Vivian each of his secrets. When Merlin realized that there wasn’t a King (Arthur) anymore, he decided to reveal to the Lady of the Lake his last secret. With great pain, but obeying to the great charmer, the young girl, who immensely loved Merlin (she also made him young again with the water of the Youth Fountain), after having traced around him nine magic circles, intangible like the air but hard as a rock, she imprisoned him for the eternity, imprisoning herself with him, too. Later, while talking with Galvan, the knight who found him, the Magician summarized his story in this way: “I was the wisest among the living, but I loved them more than myself.” Still today, the water of the Source of the Fairies, which saw the love between Merlin and Vivian, lets some bubbles go up as a greeting for those who pass. A legend says it would be enough to touch that water to unleash a storm and it’s tought that it can cure the phsyche: therefore, once it was given to the insanes.