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The Legend of Silver Alice
This particular rural legend shows up in a remarkable number of places. It goes like this: there once was a Human (or Elf, or Dwarf, or Orc) maiden who was cursed by an evil Gnomish (it’s always Gnomish, for some reason) wizard after she spurned his advances. In his rage he turned her into living silver; worse, as her skin tarnished, it also brought her great pain. Only poultices of gold and pearls could soothe her agony, and then only for a time. Silver Alice now lives in an sea-facing grotto, where she sieves the sea itself for gold, and watches over great beds of pearl oysters, all the while weeping tears of pure silver into the lapping waves.
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