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The villagers of Greyfaust have an unusual ritual. Those young men and women wishing to marry will choose a ‘girdle’: a person in the village who guarantees that the couple is in love and who advises them on their relationship. Only a girdle can annul an unhappy marriage.
The couple and their girdle each takes a bell, a book or a candle, chosen by the elders for their significance to the three. The village augur cliams that there is tremendous significance to which item each person chooses.
The couple and their girdle must then pass through a valley near the village with nothing but their clothes, the bell, the book and the candle. The three are met with hideous beasts—or perhaps masked elders from the village—that must be warded off by the correct, clever and brave application of these three items.
Hooks:
- Are there truly beasts in the valley?
- What happens to couples that fail?
- What is the use of these mundane items?
