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Read, play and have fun! Mazapègul naughty elf
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 Legends from Romagna.Romagna is a rich ground of popular beliefs and traditions. I remember when my grandmother told me of a small malignant and naughty elf, which was wandered around the country houses during the night. Its name is Mazapègul, an elf, a little higher than 40 centimetres, a little bit cat and small monkey, with a gray fur. The popular tradition counts that it does not have clothing, but is devoted to its red hat, which gives him the force to combine troubles... When Mazapègul chooses a house, it won't quite it anymore: it makes disappear the objects, pour glasses, fall things, steal papers, put invisible obstacles to make people stumble, it tickles the feet and braids the hair of the women and the hairs of the animals with its dribble! One even counts that during the night it has fun to jump on the belly of the men not to make them digest. Somebody counts that to move him away, it is necessary to throw his red hat in a well: Mazapègul hates water and without hat it loses the force and the trick. Somebody says that it adores to count and, to distract it until the sunrising, it is necessary to put corn grains on the edge of the window... Mazapègul will not be able to resist and instead of making filths into the house, will stop outside counting. Others say that if one succeeds in stealing his hat, the elf will make money and jewels come out of the ground and will reveal the secret hiding-place of the untraceable treasure, in order to have its beloved red cap back. Mazapègul, belongs to the family of Mazapegol, the elfs of the night, old origins paganes of the Celtic tradition, made up of various tribes, Mazapedar, Mazapegul, Mazapigur, Calcarel, spread all over Romagna lands. With the length of the centuries, religion and science sought to disperse these figures full of imagination... but the oral tradition, the desire to believe in fables and the incapacity to explain all the phenomena of nature, carried to us these old and magic figures. Posted by naimaisonline 29/02/2008 diceva la nonna 
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