The Spirit in the Glass Bottle

The Spirit in the Glass Bottle

Sophia is working hard to become a doctor and is completing her practical year in the medical practice of Doctor Roth. Doctor Roth is very happy with her work and trusts Sophia with the key to the medicines storeroom, on the condition that she touches nothing in the medicine cabinet. Sophia disappears into the storeroom, while Doctor Roth opens a letter from her father, a woodcutter. The doctor is shocked to read that he can no longer pay for his daughter’s practical year.

Meanwhile Sophia hears a muffled cry coming from the medicine cabinet. She opens the door and discovers a glass bottle containing the spirit Mercurius. Mercurius begs her to release him. Sophia picks up the glass bottle and looks at it in disbelief. Then Doctor Roth appears at the door to bring her the news from her father. Startled, Sophia lets the bottle fall. It breaks open and the spirit escapes. Mercurius takes off, overjoyed. His master, Lord Veith, is expecting him.

Doctor Roth is furious. It turns out that twenty years previously, he and his sister, the herbalist Eda had captured Mercurius – with great difficulty. Back then, Mercurius and Veith had tortured the villagers cruelly. Doctor Roth had suffered an injury in the fight as a result of Eda's out of control magic. The siblings had not spoken a word since. Sophia wants to fix her mistake. The welfare of the village is at risk, as is her career as a doctor. The herbalist Eda and her student Jakob also want to help.

While Mercurius puts a curse on the villagers, at Veith’s request, and makes off with all their possessions, Sophia and Jakob set out on the dangerous road to Veith’s estate, which is protected by magical gates. Doctor Roth and Eda, meanwhile, attempt to make the magical glass in which they hope to re-imprison Mercurius. But can the spirit be bound, and can his evil lord be defeated?

… AND THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS’?

“In ‘The Spirit in the Bottle’, we see people with very different plans for their own lives and contradictory views of the world – and yet they manage to use these differences to be stronger together. If that is not a pertinent lesson for us today, what is?” (Michaela Herold, Editor)

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