LIONBRUNO

Thomas Crane was an American scholar and writer, mostly known as a collector and publisher of folk-tales and legends.
"Lionbruno" is a legend, included in the "Italian Popular Tales" collection. The narration is about one mariner, who has a wife and three or four children. So happened that there had been a dearth of fish for three or four years, and the mariner was on the marge of poverty. One day, during the fishing, he meets the stranger in the sea who offers him the wealth and riches in return for his wife's next child. As the mariner's wife has had no children for some years, the man, having rejoiced at favorable offer, agrees...
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