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Overview
Sirocco is the last wind to enter Borea’s house and is expressly the youngest of her sons. He is especially insistent about the smell of a human guest. After the family promises not to harm Lionbruno, Sirocco alone knows where Colina lives. He admits that he has been tormenting the grieving fairy by rattling her palace, bursting windows and overturning furniture, including her bed.
He agrees to guide Lionbruno but explains that he cannot carry him around his neck: he is wind and air, so a human passenger would slip off. Lionbruno instead follows using his enchanted boots. The two exchange calls while racing to Colina’s palace, arriving a few hours after sunset. Sirocco blows the balcony window open and instructs him to jump inside before the servants can close it. The wind’s earlier destructive amusement becomes practical assistance, without acquiring a solid bird or horse body. His stated relationship to Borea remains specific to this version.
Origins & earliest records
Crane, Italian Popular Tales (1885), XXXVI: Lionbruno, pp. 136–147; story list identifies Basilicata, Comparetti, no. 41.
Records & interpretation
The complete selected English narrative distinguishes the Enemy, Colina and the wind family. Crane’s editorial conclusion distinguishes his oral-tradition selection from circulating chapbook versions; no independent original-language collation is claimed.
Selected bibliography
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Italian Popular Tales, XXXVI: Lionbruno, pp. 136–147; notes 13–14
Complete selected narrative through reunion and wedding; the interpretation of Borea’s name is explicitly Crane’s note.
Family, evolution & connections
Borea and her wind sons — Crane XXXVI
Selected Basilicata telling, pp. 144–145 within complete Lionbruno pp. 136–147.
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- Other wind sons (names and number unstated)
Explicit mother, sons, brothers and youngest-child statements. The other winds are unnamed and their number is unstated. No father is supplied. Polite aunt/my-son addresses to Lionbruno are excluded; no classical family is imported from an editorial name gloss.
Other unnamed wind sons of Borea
Sirocco contrasts himself with his brothers on p. 145. Their individual names and number are not supplied in this telling, so the graph retains one collective branch rather than importing a classical wind pantheon.
References
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- Primary textCrane 1885: Lionbruno, complete narrativeResearch access: 2026-10-05
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