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Strega Nona. In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called

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Strega Nona, which meant Grandma Witch. Although all the people in town talked about her in

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whispers, they all went to see her if they had troubles. Even the priest and the sisters of the

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convent went because Streganona did have a magic touch. She could cure a headache with oil and

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water and a hairpin. She made special potions for girls who wanted husbands and she was very good

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at getting rid of warts. But Streganona was getting old and she needed someone to help her

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keep her house and garden. So she put up a sign in the town square, and Big Anthony, who didn't pay

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attention, went to see her. Anthony, said Stregonona, you must sweep the house and wash the dishes.

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You must weed the garden and pick the vegetables. You must feed the goat and milk her, and you must

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fetch the water. For this, I will give you three coins and a place to sleep and food to eat.

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Oh, grazie, said Big Anthony. The one thing you must never do, said Straganona, is touch the pasta

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a pot. It is very valuable, and I don't let anyone touch it. Oh, see, yes, said Big Anthony.

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And so, as the days went by, Big Anthony did his work, and Strega Nona met with the people

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who came to see her for headaches and husbands and warts. Big Anthony had a nice bed to sleep in

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next to the goat shed and he had food to eat. One evening when Big Anthony was milking the goat

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he heard Streganona singing. Peeking in the window he saw Streganona standing over the pasta pot.

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She sang, bubble bubble pasta pot, boil me some pasta nice and hot. I'm hungry and it's time to

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sup. Boil enough pasta to fill me up. And the pasta pot bubbled and boiled and was suddenly filled

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with steaming hot pasta. Then Streganona sang, enough, enough pasta pot. I have my pasta nice

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and hot. So simmer down my pot of clay until I'm hungry another day. How wonderful, said Big

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Anthony. That's a magic pot for sure. And Streganona called Big Anthony in for supper.

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But too bad for Big Anthony, because he didn't get to see Streganona blow three kisses to the magic

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pot and this is what happened. The next day when Big Anthony went to the town square to fetch the

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water he told everyone about the pasta pot and naturally everyone laughed at him because it

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sounded too silly. A pot that cooked all by itself? You better go and confess to the priest

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Big Anthony, they said, such a lie. And Big Anthony was angry, and that wasn't a very good

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thing to be. I'll show them, he said to himself, someday I will get the pasta pot and make it cook,

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and then they'll be sorry. That day came sooner than even Big Anthony would have thought,

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because two days later, Strega Nona said to Big Anthony,

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Anthony, I must go over the mountain to the next town to see my friend Strega Amelia.

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Sweep the house and weed the garden, feed the goat and milk her,

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and for your lunch, there are some bread and cheese in the cupboard.

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And remember, don't touch the pasta pot.

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oh yes yes streganona said big anthony but inside he was thinking my chance has come

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as soon as streganona was out of sight big anthony went inside pulled the pasta pot

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off the shelf and put it on the floor now let's see if i remember the words said big anthony

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and Big Anthony sang, bubble, bubble, pasta pot. Boil me some pasta, nice and hot. I'm hungry and

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it's time to sup. Boil enough to fill me up. And sure enough, the pot bubbled and boiled and began

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to fill up with pasta. Aha, said Big Anthony and he ran to the town square, jumped on the fountain

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and shouted, everyone get forks and plates and platters and bowls, pasta for all at Strega Nona's

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house. Big Anthony has made the magic pasta pot work. Of course, everyone laughed, but ran home

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to get forks and plates and platters and bowls. And sure enough, when they got to Strega Nona's,

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the pasta pot was so full it was beginning to overflow. Big Anthony was a hero. He scooped

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out pasta and filled the plates and platters and bowls. There was more than enough for all

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the townspeople, including the priest and the sisters from the convent. And some people came

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back for two and three helpings, but the pot was never empty. When all had had their fill,

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Big Anthony sang, enough, enough, my pasta pot. I have my pasta nice and hot. So simmer down

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my pot of clay until I'm hungry another day. But alas, he did not blow the three kisses.

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He went outside to the applause of the crowd. Big Anthony took a bow. He was so busy listening

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to the compliments from everyone that he didn't notice the pasta pot was still bubbling and boiling

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until a sister from the convent said, oh, Big Anthony, look. And pasta was pouring out of the pot

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all over the floor of Struganona's house and was coming out of the door. Big Anthony rushed in and

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shouted the magic words, but the pot kept bubbling. He took the pot off the floor, but pasta kept

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pouring from it. Big Anthony grabbed a cover and put it on the pot and sat on it. But the pasta

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raised the cover, and Big Anthony as well, and spilled on the floor of Streganona's house.

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Stop, yelled Big Anthony. But the pasta did not stop, and if someone hadn't grabbed poor Big

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Anthony, the pasta would have covered him up. The pasta had all but filled the little house.

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Out of the windows and through the doors came the pasta, and the pot kept right on bubbling.

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The townspeople began to worry.

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Do something, Big Anthony, they shouted.

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Big Anthony sang the magic song again, but without the three kisses, it did no good.

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By this time, the pasta was on its way down the road, and all the people were running to keep ahead of it.

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we must protect our town from the pasta shouted the mayor get mattresses tables doors anything

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to make a barricade but even that didn't work the pot kept bubbling and the pasta kept coming

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we are lost said the people and the priest and the sisters of the convent began praying

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the pasta will cover our town they cried and it certainly would have had streganona not come down

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the road home from her visit. She didn't have to look twice to know what had happened.

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She sang the magic song and blew the three kisses, and with a sputter the pot stopped boiling

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and the pasta came to a halt. Oh, grazia, thank you, thank you, thank you, Streganona, the people

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cried, but then they turned on poor Big Anthony. String him up, the men of the town shouted.

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Now wait, said Streganona. The punishment must fit the crime, and she took a fork from a lady

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standing nearby and held it out to Big Anthony. All right, Anthony, you wanted pasta from my magic

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pasta pot, Streganona said, and I want to sleep in my little bed tonight, so start eating. And he did.

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Poor big Anthony. The end.