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Overview
An ogre discovers Buchettino eating figs in a tree and repeatedly demands a fig directly from the child’s hand. When the boy finally leans down, the ogre catches his arm and puts him into a bag. It calls ahead for its wife to prepare a kettle, explicitly intending the child as a meal. The ogre briefly leaves the bag on the ground; Buchettino cuts it open, fills it with stones and escapes.
The disappointed captor searches the city the following day and finds the boy laughing from a roof. Asked how he climbed there, Buchettino describes a stack of crockery and cooking vessels. The ogre copies the unstable construction, climbs it and crashes down onto stones when it collapses. The boy returns to his mother and receives a sweet. This ending states another failed capture and fall, rather than explicitly reporting the ogre’s death. His wife participates in carrying the bag toward the kettle but receives no separate name, anatomy or supernatural biography.
Origins & earliest records
Crane, Italian Popular Tales (1885), LXXXV, Buchettino, pp. 265–267; source: Papanti, Novelline popolari livornesi, p. 25.
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Italian Popular Tales: LXXXV, Buchettino, pp. 265–267
Source listed as Papanti, Novelline popolari livornesi, p. 25; original-language text not independently collated.
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- Primary historical collectionCrane (1885): LXXXV, Buchettino, pp. 265–267Research access: 2026-10-05
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