The Fountain That Granted Regret
It didn’t make wishes come true — it made them never made.
In Seville, a dry fountain in a courtyard was said to erase sorrow. Pilgrims who drank from it swore they left feeling lighter — until they couldn’t remember why they’d come.
One historian traced its origin to a 13th-century monk who prayed to forget his sins. He vanished soon after. When restorers cleaned the fountain in 1992, they found bones fused into the stonework — faces sculpted mid-scream.
Water samples revealed no anomalies, but the researcher leading the project began forgetting his own name. His final note read:
“It works too well.”
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