I was inspired by various myths and legends surrounding onions and their magical power. It is said that, in 1919, during the great flu pandemic, there was a doctor who went around the farms and helped people to heal himself; one day he met a farm where all the people in the family were completely healthy. Then he asked the head of the family what they did differently and why they are all healthy. The man replied that his wife placed a peeled onion on a plate in each bedroom and that the onion protected the family from the flu. The doctor did not believe the farmer's story and asked him for one of these onions. When he put it under the microscope, he observed that the flu virus was in the onion that had absorbed it, thus protecting family members.