In the mortal world the hellebore is sometimes called the christmas rose because of an old tale that says it sprouted where a little girl who had no gift for the christ child wept into the snow outside Bethlehem. Both snow and flower itself were unlikely to have been found in the holy land in those days, but that has never hurt the story's popularity. In Greece of the old myths, Meplampus of Pylos used hellebore to save his daughters of the king of Argos from a Dionysian madness that had set them running naked through the city, weeping and screaming and laughing. There are many stories about hellebore. Most of them have tears in them. Another curiosity of the hellebore is that its bloom can be frozen solid in the deepest winter snows, but when the ice melts away, dripping from the petals like tears, the flower beneath is still alive, still supple. Hellebore is strong and patient...
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