Pictures from Trás-os-Montes region, Douro region, Bragança, Portugal and others beautiful places
quinta-feira, 1 de novembro de 2018
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Madalena
As the saying goes, on Saint Martin's Day you go to the cellar and taste the wine....
"(...) And she, Madalena, was nothing more than a poor woman, walking along in that excommunicated wasteland, thoroughly chilled to the bone, with no strength left for anything else, carrying that damned child inside her belly kicking away. And all because of Armindo's sweet talk, that gentle, coaxing talk that led her to ruin! Ah, the magusto, that Saint Martin's magusto! Dearly had she paid for those four roasted chestnuts she had accepted in the hut at Tapada. The rascal even had jeropiga right at hand! And she, the fool, had eaten, drunk, and, in the end, rolled around in the straw screaming. But it had done her no good. (...)" [1]




