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In this episode of the Cannolo Report:

• News in Sicily
• Out and about in Sicily
• Next weeks in Sicily
• Sicilian Almanac of the past

News in Sicily

Following the news of this episode

Flastrocche and cunti of Sicily

Sara Favarò tells us about some exhilarant Sicilian habits

Aunt Cicca and u curnutu (the horned)

Once upon a time there was a horned man …

Out and about in Sicily

• Ethno-anthropological museum of Agira
• Archaeological museum in Syracuse
• Puppet museum in Acireale

Almanac of the past

On December 5, 1666 the musician Francesco Scarlatti was born in Palermo, brother of the most famous Alessandro. Let’s listen to a piece of his Dixit Dominus

Sicilian saying are like pieces of the gospel  La jaddina chi cammina, s’arricogghi cu la vozza china which is that the walking hen when she returns always comes back with a full throat and it means that anyone that walks, moves and gets busy will always get something.

Photos of the past 1928 we are in Castiglione di Sicilia and you can see a group of washerwomen and children from near a spring. In those days people walked barefoot and women rubbed their clothes on the stones to clean them. The lady in black is in mourning. There is no shortage of Prickly pears and it must have been very hot that day almost 100 years ago.

Next weeks in Sicily

Weather forecasts

The fruit seller

Slurp slurp … let’s see what the greengrocer propose this time

The fish seller

Slurp slurp … let’s see what the fishmonger propose this time

THE CULTURAL DEPARTMENT “SEBASTIANO TUSA” OF SPLENDID SICILY PRESENTED THE CANNOLO REPORT THIS EPISODE WAS ATTENDED BY MEMBERS SARA FAVARO’ (MAIN HOST, PROVERBS, SICILIAN LANGUAGE) AND GIOVANNA BATTAGLIA (TRANSLATIONS, SPEAKER)

This episode was broadcasted from Sicily