In a small village there once lived a beautiful woman. All of the men of the village fell in love with her including ones that were married. One day the women decided to follow her on her way to collect the herbs from the lake nearby their village. The women caught her and slowly tortured her burning and cutting her body until she was close to death all the while taunting her saying how she was no longer the fairest. Near to the woman's end they threw her into the water sea. It is said that the water cooled her pain and made her feel steady, like the unjust doings had never happened to her. That is how she turned to the mystical Water Lily Faerie or sprite, for the Water of the Lake had been the Portalway to the Mystical Land of Avalon.

The people or Fae of Avalon or Avalonia took pity on the poor woman as it wasn't her fault she irrestistable. The poor woman had never set out to make the rest of the women in the village feel less beautiful or unimportant to their husbands. For this woman was a truly amazing soul. She had the beauty most women (and sometimes men) envied, but what most of us will never see, even if we live to be a thousand, was that she had a heart that could've been a million times larger than anyones. Fae gave her the option to go back into the Mortal World and make the other women pay for the treacheress deeds they had committed. But the amazing woman simply told the Council of the Fae that she did not hold any grudges against the women, what they did was unjust, but they were in their rights to feel intimidated. The Fae were dumbfounded they had never seen such bravery or purity in a human that they bestowed upon her the magic of being a Faerie herself and for ever more her decendants were gifted the magic of being to morph into the beautiful flower that is the Water Lily.

So be careful next time you walk past a lake with a single, beautiful lily, one more splendid and magical than you've ever seen, the woman or the woman's descendants may be out to get you for the deeds you've done that may not have been right.