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Early one morning a god called Bacchus came to visit Midas in his palace. He came to reward Midas for a favor Midas had performed for him. Bacchus offered to grant King Midas whatever he wanted on earth. King Midas asked that everything he touched might be turned into gold. Bacchus rather unwillingly granted Midas his wish and vanished.
Midas walked around the palace grounds very happily and lost no time in trying out his new powers. He touched the smallest branch on his rose tree. Immediately the branch turned to purest gold. He picked a rose and the rose also changed to gold. Midas was delighted. He quickly ran from bush to bush touching all the roses and turning them into gold. When he surveyed his golden rose garden he was filled with joy.
It was now time for Midas's breakfast and his servants set out a table covered with bread, meat, wine and all kinds of fruit. But when Midas touched a piece of bread it changed into a huge nugget of gold. Midas started to feel fear. He suddenly realized he might starve to death. Unexpectedly, the sound of a child weeping interrupted his gloomy thoughts. As he looked up, his little daughter came running with a bunch of golden roses in her hand. "Father!" she cried, "Someone has killed our beautiful roses. They are now horrible gold ones." Weeping she flung herself into her father's arms. Midas bent down to kiss her but found he now held only a golden statue.
Midas called out to Bacchus in the heavens, "Bacchus have mercy on me, forgive me and take away this accursed golden touch. I never want to have golden touch again."
Bacchus heard Midas's cries and promised to take away Midas's golden touch. He told Midas to go to the magic river and bathe in its waters. Midas did so and he could change his daughter and the other golden objects back to their original state by sprinkling the magic water over them.