Friday, October 30, 2015

Extra Reading Diary: Italian Popular Tales

The Language of Animals

  • The story is about father and son 
  • The son goes to school and when he comes back home his father throws him a big party 
  • At the party he is asked what he has learned
  • He responds that he has learned the languages of birds, dogs and frogs. his father is so ashamed that he sends his servants to kill him and bring him his heart
  • The servants kill a dog and the son gets away and helps the a kings treasurer by telling him that a bunch of dogs followed him because multiple assassins were going to attack at night
  • He then helps the kings daughter by letting them know she had tossed a cross in the fountain and thats why the frogs never stopped croaking
  • In the end he becomes pope and invites his father, the treasurer and the king
  • He then forgives his father and lived with him for the rest of his life
  • A carter was sent down a dark deep hole to see who lived there
  • As he went down he saw a man with ink and pen and paper
  • The carter asked the mysterious man who he was and the the man told him turn around and open your shirt. 
  • He wrote who he was on the carter shirt and told him to go to the pope and have only the pope read who he was
  • So he went to the pope and it read, I am PILATES 
  • And so this was the story of PILATE a man neither condemned nor damned but stuck in a cave reading the sentenced he had pronounced Jesus Christ.
  • There was a cock that wanted to become pope so he went on journey and on the course recruited a hen, a cat and a weasel.
  • There after they got to a witches house and stayed there. 
  • The witch came home and kicked them all out
  • Then it was just the cock and the hen on the way to rome 
  • Once they got there the cock met with the sexton and the sexton caught both the cock and hen and twisted their necks ate the cock and the hen THE END.
Italy

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