TheLoreman
Member
Hello.
I've just joined the forum. I'm a huge fan of myths and folklore and in particular the Greek ones. However there is a story I once heard when I was a child and I am struggling to find whether or not it is indeed a Greek Myth or one I just dreamt up. Any chance someone here can help me?
It goes thus:
A man has a secret that he cannot keep to himself so he whispers it into a hole in the ground. Over time a flower grows from the hole and that flower is then picked by a passer by who gives the flower to someone of nobility (I think) perhaps a King or Queen... When the King/Queen smells the flower it divulges the secret whispered by the man and it's a secret of great significance. I believe it alerts a person to a great betrayal?
Anyone heard of something like this? I must have been eight or nine when I heard this and now some thrity years later it still has me intrigued. I'm not entirely sure but there's a chance the man who whispered the secret was told he would perish if he ever told it to a mortal..?
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.
I've just joined the forum. I'm a huge fan of myths and folklore and in particular the Greek ones. However there is a story I once heard when I was a child and I am struggling to find whether or not it is indeed a Greek Myth or one I just dreamt up. Any chance someone here can help me?
It goes thus:
A man has a secret that he cannot keep to himself so he whispers it into a hole in the ground. Over time a flower grows from the hole and that flower is then picked by a passer by who gives the flower to someone of nobility (I think) perhaps a King or Queen... When the King/Queen smells the flower it divulges the secret whispered by the man and it's a secret of great significance. I believe it alerts a person to a great betrayal?
Anyone heard of something like this? I must have been eight or nine when I heard this and now some thrity years later it still has me intrigued. I'm not entirely sure but there's a chance the man who whispered the secret was told he would perish if he ever told it to a mortal..?
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.