Storytelling: "Hunchback Wryneck Hobbler," an Abruzzese Folktale
Channel: rarewren
Date: 2012-10-31

My friends and neighbors gathered for an evening social and graciously listened to some stories I have been learning as part of a University of Washington storytelling class (LIS 561). This fable from Abruzzo is one that Italo Calvino collected and retold in Fiabe italiane (Italian Folktales, translated by George Martin, 1980). "Hunchback Wryneck Hobbler" in the original Italian is "Gobba, zoppa e collotorto."