Cesário Verde's Bouquet of Poppies

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Origin
Cesário Verde was a 19th-century Portuguese poet. Although not recognized in his time, today he is studied in all Portuguese schools. One of the recurring themes in his poems is his love of Nature and the countryside, lively and full of beauty, and his hatred of the urban environment, which he sees as corrupt and decaying. One day he saw a group of city people that had come to make a picnic in the countryside. Iniatially he thought of them as invading the land he loved so much, he changed his mind when he saw that a woman there decided to collect a bouquet of poppies. Seeing that she loved the countryside too made him change his opinion on them and even made him write a poem about the woman and the flowers she had collected, called "O ramalhete rubro das papoulas" (The Red Bouquet of Poppies). The bouquet became imbued with the love of Cesário and the anonymous woman for Nature, giving its properties.

Effects
Anyone who smells the poppies will automatically gain an intense hatred of any urban environment and a love for life among Nature. People affected will do anything to abandon the city, even leaving loved ones behind.