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I giorni della Merla

When I was little, on time every year in late January, from first to fifth grade, the teachers told us the legend of Merla, leaving us the task of illustrating her story with a sequence of drawings.
There are several versions, to which I add that I remember.

Long ago, the Blackbirds had a snow-white plumage ....
It happened in the last days of January, a blackbird because of the cold and snow, he found immense difficulty in finding food for his merlottini ...

He decided to leave the nest unattended, and leave in search of food .....
In his wanderings, numb with cold, the blackbird perched on the smoking chimney of a house ....
In doing so, the smoke issuing from the chimney dyed his plumage of black ...

The blackbird, did not notice the change, until they were her children to let them out ... back to the nest, in fact, the merlottini not know her, and began to peck at, although she claimed to be their mother. .

Then God took pity on the poor blackbird ... and made it even merlottini blacks, and since then all the blackbirds had the black feathers .....

The last three days of January, are known to be the coldest of the year ...