Apr 28
Illustrazione di Fabian Negrin per il pozzo delle meraviglie. 300 fiabe, novelle e racconti popolari siciliani, di Giuseppe Pitrè, della fiaba la troffa di la razza.
the illustration depicts the "Patri-Drau" (Dragon-Father) as he climbs out of the whole left by a turnip:
Di stu pirtusu metti a nèsciri fumu, e 'mmenzu lu fumu sàuta comu fussi un saccu nìuru d'abbràciu. Chi è? chi fu? Avia nisciutu di ddà lu Patri-Drau.
From this hole started to come out smoke, and from within this smoke jumps out something like a black burlap sack. Who is it? Who was it? The Dragon-Father had come out of there.
@adarkrainbow to show you again how little these creatures were imagined as actual dragons
