The legend of figs
It is said that, in the house, now in ruins, under the peaks ofiolitic of Roccalberti, lived a man, said Biagio.
Everything is around one hundred years ago. It was a period of poverty in which even a fig tree was a vital and popular beliefs were rooted.
This man, in fact, had a fig tree (the fig) the fruits of which were stolen, so was forced to play guard at night.
One day three children, decided that on the night they would go to court to make a joke and at the same time take some of his figs.
Took a white sheet, they are put under all three, as to imitate a ghost and went to the house of this man.
Humming went like this:
- "We live and we going to rub all of the figs ..."
And then again:
- "And we, with this white sheet we stealing figs from Biagio.
When they reached the place, this man, taken over by the stunt of these boys, was seized by an illness and died.