Italian Tale
Vardiello and the Hen
Vardiello isn’t a very clever son, but he thinks he is. When his mother leaves him alone in the house he gets into deeper and deeper trouble. Find out how a hen led to him hiding in the oven!
Let me tell you the story of the
The humans and the gods often argued and made loads of trouble for each other. And because the gods had supernatural powers and wielded magic and sorcery, many things peculiar and wondrous happened on
The gods could cause storms and strong winds, they could turn a person into stone or into a star or a tree. They could create love, but they could also create hate. They could give people power, but they could also turn them into
That’s how it was in the ancient Greek world. It was full of magic, transformation, and sudden twists. And it was in that world that the story of the Minotaur took
It all began on the island of Crete. King Minos was about to sacrifice a beautiful bull to Poseidon, the god of the
The punishment was that Pasiphaë would be made to fall in love with a sacred bull, and after some time would give birth…