Reading Notes: Italian B


  • there was a man carrying a cart of stones
  • the cart got stuck and it took great effort to move it
  • when it was moved there was a hole in the ground where it was
  • the cart owner offered to explore the hole himself and he was lowered with a rope into the hole
  • in the hole he saw a door and darkness, he went through the darkness and doors until he reached a room with a man reading a paper
  • the man would not look up from the paper and so finally the cart owner asked who he was over and over until he responded
  • the man said that he would write on the cart owner's back who he was and the owner was to go to the pope and have it read
  • the owner followed the instructions, leaving the hole and man and going to the pope.
  • The man explained what happened to the pope and the pope read the man's back which said
     I am Pilate"
  • as this was spoken the cart owner turned to stone.
  • The man was pilate, who had been sentenced to the cave to read the same sentence that he had denounced Jesus without being able to look away

Bibliography: Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane (1885)
Image Info: Stone back of a man, Pixabay

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