Like wine, Provençal magic had its own distinctive terroir. It was rich and chaotic and romantic. It was a night-magic, confabulated out of moons and silver, wine and blood, knights and fairies, wind and rivers and forests. It concerned itself with good and evil but also with the vast intermediate realm in between, the realm of mischief. Lev Grossman
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This quote from a famous book by Françoise Lionnet tells the story of a love affair between two people who were not supposed to be together. The woman who is the central character in the story was cursed by a vengeance-wielding witch who was jealous of her ability to love. The witch used magic to drive her lover away and keep him from returning. As a result, the woman fell into a deep depression.

One day, on her way back from a visit to a friend, she passed through a vineyard where she smelled an odd perfume of bitter almonds, garlic, and herbs of lavender and sage. It was intoxicatingly beautiful. She followed her nose until she found herself in a field of lavender with an enormous tree whose branches spread over the ground like an umbrella of greenthorn and blackberries.

The leaves were covered with red drops that glistened in the sun like rubies. When she picked one up to smell it, she realized that it had been plucked not from a tree but from her own body. She was turned into a bird and flew through the night sky until it was morning, when she returned to earth as human once more.

Source: The Magician King

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