ly 1956, in certain villages of sout: Bra (told by Caterina Asteggiano, inmate of a old by Doro Palladino, farmer), in Narzole (told by Annetta taricco, servant woman), and in Pocapaglia.

    tive,  versions s and additions from Bra and surroundings, cannot in my vieale. It is a local legend of recent origin in part (I am tance, of ticulars given), t is, not prior to teentury, and containing disparate elements: explanation of a local superstition (tcifeudal country legend sucries, curious detective-story structure à la Sial to tory (sucrip from Africa back to tos as a separate story -- and all to Masinos past and future adventures rotter from a country s are reputed to be contrastingly sloranslate), and grotesque images radition, sucails, t t wc....

    Copyrigalian Folktales Selected and Retold by Italo Calvino,

    translated by George Martin,

    Pantheon Books, New York 1980