倔强的彼埃拉人amp;意大利童话

    一个农夫要去彼埃拉。正赶上刮风下雨的恶劣天气，路都几乎无法走了。但这个农夫有要紧的事，他低着头顶着风雨雷电继续往前走。

    他遇上一个老人，对他说：“你好啊！你这样急急忙忙的要去哪里啊？好人。”

    “去彼埃拉。”农夫答道，继续往前走。

    “你至少应该说一声‘愿上帝保佑’吧。”

    农夫停了下来，望着面前的老人高声说：“如果上帝保佑，我去彼埃拉；如果上帝不保佑，我照样得去。”

    其实，那个老人就是上帝。他对农夫说：“那好吧，你七年以后才能到彼埃拉去，现在，你跳进池塘，在里面待上七年吧。”

    农夫立即变成了一只青蛙，跳进了池塘。

    七年过去了。农夫从池塘中出来，又变回人，他戴紧帽子，又上路了。

    没走几步，上次那个老人又出现了。“好人，你这是去哪里啊？”

    “去彼埃拉。”

    “你应该祈祷一声‘愿上帝保佑’。”

    “要是上帝保佑，那很好；要是不保佑，那个惩罚我知道，我会自己跳进池塘里去。”

    说完，他再也不开口说话了。

    （比埃拉地区）

    tubborn Souls, the Biellese

    A farmer ormy t it  to impossible to get over t tant business and pushe driving rain.

    an old man, o you! e?quot;

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    Noo be t;In t case youll go to Biella in seven years,quot; ;In time, jump into tay t;

    Suddenly to a frog and jumped into the swamp.

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    After a s distance  t;And w;

    quot;to Biella.quot;

    quot;You mig;

    quot;If God , fine. If not, I knoo ted.quot;

    Nor for the life of him would he say one word more.

    (Biellese)

    NOtES:

    quot;tubborn Souls, t; (I biellesi, gente dura) from Virginia Majoli Faccio (Lincantesimo della mezzanotte, [Il Biellese nelle sue leggende], Milan, 1941), Valdengo, Piedmont.

    tale is also found in trieste, starring ti, 51).

    Copyrigalian Folktales Selected and Retold by Italo Calvino,

    translated by George Martin,

    Pantheon Books, New York 1980