PREZZEMOLINA

Once upon a time there was a couple that lived in a beautiful house. It had a window with a fantastic view on the Fairies’ orchard.

The woman was pregnant of a beautiful girl and she strongly desired a little parsley. Once she noticed some parsley in the Fairies’ orchard so she took a silk ladder, went down on it and ate some of it.

A few days later the fairies noticed that some parsley was missing and thought about a stratagem to see who was the parsley thief.

The woman was discovered and she apologized to the fairies. They accepted her apologizing on condition that her name was Prezzemolina and when she would be a woman she would be given to the fairies. The woman accepted.

Prezzemolina grew up and the fairies remind the woman her promise. One day the girl was kidnapped by the fairies who asked her to clean a room and to paint it with images of all the birds of the air otherwise she would be eaten.

Memé, one of the fairies’ cousins, knocked at the girl’s door, he had decided to help the girl and, thanks to a magic wand, the room was cleaned and painted with all the birds.

The perfidious women asked the girl to go to Morgana the Fairy, to get the Bel-Giullare’s box. When the fairies came back they were astonished but they realized Memé had helped her. What to do to eat the sweet Prezzemolina?

Memé gave Prezzemolina two pots containing some lard to grease the two sides of a door in order she could get in. On her way the girl met Memé who told Memé that Morgan would eat her.

He also gave her a little bread to feed two dogs, a string and a punch to be given to a shoemaker and a brush to be given to a miller. All this stuff would help her to get the box.

The fairies still wanted to eat Prezzemolina, but again the Memé put a spell on them and made them die. The two young people got married and lived happy and healthy.

THE END