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Overview
The witch’s garden is guarded by a donkey, distracted by the neighbours with grass while they steal jujubes. She hides under leaves to catch them, leaving one long ear exposed; a woman mistakes it for a mushroom. Threatening to eat the caught woman, she demands her unborn child at seven. She later approaches Angiola while claiming to be her aunt, but the narrative supplies no blood relationship. Her treatment combines coercive capture with the statement that she loves the tower-confined girl like her own child.
Angiola’s living tables, chairs and cupboards conceal her escape after being fed, while the neglected broom informs the witch. She pursues the girl and prince across the magical soap and nail mountains but cannot cross the growing stream. Her curse turns Angiola’s face canine. The companion dog returns and overcomes her initial anger through affection and pleading; she finally supplies the water that reverses her own enchantment. No death or further revenge is described for the witch at the wedding ending.
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
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- Primary textCrane1885: V: The Fair Angiola, story list and prefaceResearch access: 2026-10-05
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