A count of the Pusteria had married a beautiful woman. The two young men could have been the happiest couple in the world, if the husband did not have a morbid jealousy. He led her in a remote valley in the Dolomites to close in a tower built on another rock. He often went away and left her in custody to a nurse who hated her. One day he left for Germany, saying he was going to try the 'arch Egues , the best weapons on earth. The girl locked in the room sat by the window. Passed by a vendor in Venice. He refused to see jewelry and fabrics, but asked if he had ever heard of this "arc of Egues. -not only I've heard, I know a miner Latemar likely to obtain the weapon! - replied, to which she promised a generous reward him if he did have, then drew back in the room. However, came in the room was the nurse who said, grinning -well, the lady is talking with foreign men! I'll say to Count! - As the man came to know he lost the light of reason and his wife rushed into the ravine, still trembling with anger and back pain. He found waiting for the Venetian, which was to bring the arch- who told you that I wanted this weapon? - asked puzzled. From the Venetian tale that made him realized the enormous injustice and ran to the ravine to search for at least the woman's body, but it was gone. Going back, he saw two men riding Alleghe to along with a woman dressed in white. They were far to be recognized but the count was a suspect and went to the street. Heard asking about going to Zoldo , then found a woman who said that the sorcerers, and they seemed to Birte odlata (evil eye), also had to have bewitched the young, because he kept his head down and did not say word .. . described the girl and the count had no doubt, was the wife. He bought a horse and went after them. He passed the land of Peleghetes, then that of Durannes, but in the Venetian plain lost track of them. Continues research by selling all his ring and fine fabrics, until reduced to begging. After a year went back and stood to be the pastor for something to eat. The farmer said, however, do not go into the woods because of Chad Delàmis infested with witches and ghosts. When the count ended up working with the sheep but would try to go. He walked two hours up to a house where he worked a carpenter. The questions but did not answer and neither looked over his left. It will be deaf and dumb! he thought, so went into the house where, a thousand books, was the landlord who asked for a job. The man looked at him a little reassuring, but he agreed. -I have a bear and a horse that you take care. The bear is fierce, so that is tied to a strong chain. The horse does not drink, but bring fresh water every day as long as you do not obey- Almost immediately understood to live among stegonerie. During the day there was dead silence, broken only by the hammer of the carpenter, at night the house was filled with rustling, whispers and strange noises, as if a thousand animals ran and flew to every corner of the house, the bear gave him yanking the chain to rattle the walls. One day the owner had to leave and gave the keys to the arithmetic, one in particular, saying -it-or-die, do not enter the room that opens with this key and left-. He took the opportunity to understand the secrets of the house. At sunset the first night he noticed that all the fragments the mice became a carpenter who came into the house, so the next day and picked them burned. The carpenter made now to speak, thanking him and telling freed from the spell of ill-treatment of the two wizards of the house. He told a year before had also kidnapped a woman, but the younger one wanted it for himself and tried to persuade her to elope with him. The old man saw it and turned it in Ursa. The lady, however, rejected it with disdain, she did get her soul in the horse, then poured the water of the fountain a substance that if he drank, he would capitulate. Hearing the story the Count took the water from home and finally watered the horse, then cried, embracing him, asking for forgiveness and vowing to leave his wife. Search for books but all were indecipherable, including only one sentence: "the stones break the spell, but he could not understand how. Finally he tried to enter the forbidden room. There was only a table with lots of nuts, a sword, a small mirror and black, a big and green and some eggshells. He broke the shell, and heard a large bang, then his wife's voice calling him -my soul is freed on the horse's mane, but without a body! Take the sword from the forbidden room, the bag of nuts and mirrors, and escape on horseback. The bear broke the chain and is about to break down the door, while the wizard is returning, I feel it! quickly! - The Earl lost no time and ran away, but soon he perceived to be pursued by the sorcerer on the back of the bear, which gained ground. The woman's voice then told him to throw a nut behind it: it opened a ditch two and that delayed the operation was repeated many times, inche found themselves in a deserted valley, but still chasing them. Then threw the black mirror and created a lake, but the bear swam the fastest, while the advanced level as they exhausted horse, then threw a last resort the green mirror. The whole valley behind them there was water, delayed his pursuers, but they were stopped and joined them to Pian da Lus . The count took his sword and fought with the wizard, but it bounced off without hurting him, as if the skin was del'uomo armor, then tried to strangle him, but was not strong enough ... The bear meanwhile chased the horse that was going around the rock in the middle of the plain ... suddenly a scream. The horse had been reached! In that desperate moment he remembered the only sentence of the books that he understood, he took a stone and crushed the head of the witch, took the sword and with one blow killed the bear. Like waking from the nightmare he realized he had won on both sorcerers, while his wife returned to him, beautiful as it always had been. In two days they got home to Andraz, he wanted to punish the nurse but the hard-hearted wife saw to it that was Just hunt. The old witch went to the rocky outcrop above Falzarego abiare acute that even today is called "Sass de Stria" (the witch's rock), while the bride and groom left the tower and returned to the Pusteria, where they lived happily for a long time. NOTE - The story of the forbidden room and the flight is frequently interrupted in many legends of the peoples of Europe. Here's episodes
potholes and lakes could relate to forest Cansiglio and neighbors Dead Lake and Lake Santa Croce . Cansiglio plateau there is' a great number of holes called blades and, in Friuli, Lamis. The word chad is preserved in the dialect of Fassa and indicate a forest of big trees. The "Chad Delàmis " would therefore be " the woods of the holes, then two words would be preserved in prehistoric mythological name of Bosco Cansiglio. Note also that the lake of Santa Croce is the center of earthquakes, and supports the localization of fantastic tales. 
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