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Demon Wine

StoryIllustration★★★

In the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul, Turkey, a very precious goblet stands in a prominent place. A gold serpent is poised in the very center of the cup. It is decorated with ruby eyes and diamond fangs. Its mouth is open, and it looks like it’s ready to strike. When the goblet is filled with wine, the red liquid hides the snake; but as the wine is drunk, the serpent, with its menacing appearance, is revealed.

Doug Batchelor, Broken Chains, 88.

The point

A jeweled goblet with a serpent hidden inside, revealed only as the wine is drunk, vividly pictures how the true danger of alcohol shows itself only after one has already begun to indulge.

Audience
Adults
Tone
Cautionary · Vivid
To tell aloud
under a minute · 87 words
Subjects
RevelationLiquorHidden DangerAlcoholTemptationDangerDeception

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