| Betty MacDonald's Pouch | |
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Origin |
Betty MacDonald |
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Type |
Pouch |
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Effects |
Absorbs illness and turns it into a bean that must be eaten or illness returns more potent than before. |
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Downsides |
Person who eats the bean will have their insides turned to ash. |
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Activation |
When held and separated from book. |
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Collected by |
Agents Bering and Jinks |
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Section |
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Aisle |
01984-5782-829 |
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Shelf |
83823-9472-014 |
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Date of Collection |
07/2011 |
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Origin[]
The pouch that is considered the artifact came with a special edition of Mrs. Piggle - Wiggle's Farm. In the book Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle received a chest fill of magical cures left to her by her deceased husband who had been a pirate. Because a chest was too heavy to carry around so Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle used magic to shrink the cures down and kept them in a pouch. In the book the cures range from mundane, a cure for naughty children who wont pick up after themselves to the fantastic, interrupting cure which makes someone mute when they try to interrupt. Since Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm was the first book to mention these cures the special edition came with the pouch.
Effects[]
Instead of holding actual cures inside, the pouch starts out completely empty. When separated from the book and held in a sick person's hand the illness appears as a colored smoke (Cancer comes out as violet smoke) and goes into the pouch where a green bean is formed. The bean looks like an innocent lima bean. If eaten within an hour the one who ate it has his/her internal organs to turn ash. If the hour passes without the bean being consumed the original sick person becomes terminal.
Collection[]
Becomes activated when removed from being next to the book, this being the case means that the two are never to be apart.
Agents Bering and Jinks went to a maximum security prison where inmates were dying at an alarming rate. They discovered that the priest who would come to speak to the prisoners also made rounds at a local Saint Jude's Children's Hospital about a thirty minute drive away. The priest would take illnesses from sick children and convince death row inmates that absolution would come in the form of saving a child's life. A misguided attempt to do some good they retrieved the pouch just before the priest left the prison to do missionary work overseas.