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Overview

The witch owns a small dog whose affection for Angiola leads it to accompany her flight. After the curse makes the girl dog-faced, the dog speaks to her and volunteers to seek the witch’s help. Its ability to talk and carry a request is explicit; no human origin, transformation or special breed is supplied. This separates the companion’s ordinary canine form from Angiola’s temporary altered face.

The dog returns to its former mistress, leaps affectionately upon her and persists after she calls it ungrateful. Once she accepts it onto her lap, it describes Angiola’s suffering and asks that the punishment end. The witch initially refuses, then gives a flask of restorative water. The dog carries it safely back, and Angiola washes away the enchantment. Its address to the witch as Mother is affectionate speech in the encounter; the account does not state that she gave birth to it.

Human speechFollows Angiola’s escapeNegotiates reversalCarries restorative flask
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Origins & earliest records

Crane, Italian Popular Tales (1885), V: The Fair Angiola, printed pp. 26–30. The story list identifies Laura Gonzenbach, Sicilian collection No.53, Von der schönen Angiola. The full selected English tale has been used; no individual oral narrator is named in that presentation.

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The selected tale provides this figure’s stated form, speech or supernatural action and its narrative outcome. Crane’s preface acknowledges changes of tense and omitted repetitions; this English presentation is distinguished from independently inspecting its underlying regional collection.

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    Italian Popular Tales, V: The Fair Angiola, pp. 26–30

    Thomas Frederick Crane, translator/compiler; source Laura Gonzenbach, Sicilian collection No.53, Von der schönen Angiola · 1885 English edition

    Complete selected tale, including its final resolution; nearby editorial comparisons remain separate.

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  1. Primary textCrane1885: V: The Fair Angiola, story list and prefaceResearch access: 2026-10-05

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