The Avisiothal—Val di Cembra; its inaccessibility—Altrei; presentation of colours—Fleimserthal; Cavalese; its church a museum of Tirolese Art; local parliament; legend of its site; handsome new church—Fassathal—Moena—Analogous English and French traditions—Marriage customs of the valley—The Feuriger Verräther—Vigo—The Marmolata; its legends—St. Ulrich 374

CHAPTER XII.

WÄLSCH-TIROL.

[VAL SUGANA—GIUDICARIA—FOLKLORE.]

Val Sugana—Baselga—The Madonna di Pinè; legend of the Madonna di Caravaggio—Pergine; miners; the Canoppa—The Schloss—Marriage customs of the valley—Lake Caldonazzo—St. Hermes at Calzeranica—Bosentino—Nossa signora del Feles—The sleeper of Valle del Orco—Caldonazzo—Lafraun; legend of the disunited brothers—Borgo, the Italian Meran—Franciscan convent; Castel Telvana; dangers of a carneval procession; Count Welsburg’s vow—Gallant border defences—Stalactite caves of Costalta—Sette Comuni—Castelalto—Strigno—Castelrotto—Cima d’Asta—Quarazza garnet quarry—Ivano—Grigno; Legend of St. Udalric—Castel Tesino—Canal San Bovo to Primiero—Tale of Virginia Loss; humble heroism—Le Tezze; modern heroes 382

Judicarien; its divisions—Castel Madruzz; Cardinal Karl Madruzz; his dispensation; its conditions—Abraham’s Garden—Sta. Massenza; Bishop’s Summer Palace—Loreto-kapelle—The Rendenathal; St. Vigilius; his zeal; early admission to the episcopate; missionary labours; builds churches; overthrows idols; his stoning; his burial; the rock cloven for his body to pass; the Acqua della Vela; the bread of Mortaso—S. Zulian; his legend; his penitence—Caresolo; its frescoes; another memorial of Charles Quint; his estimation of Jews—New churches—Legends of Condino and Campiglio—Riva on the Garda-see; its churches; its olive branches—The Altissimo di Nago; view from S. Giacomo; optical illusion—Brentonico—The Ponte delle Streghe—Mori; tobacco cultivation 400

Character of Wälsch-Tirol folklore—Orco-Sagen; his transformations in many lands; transliterations of his name in Tirol—The Salvan and Gannes; perhaps Etruscan genii—Salvanel; Bedelmon; Salvadegh—The Beatrik, identified with Dietrich von Bern—The Angane—What came of marrying an Angana—The focarelli of Lunigiana—The Filò—Froberte—Donna Berta dal nas longh—The discriminating Salvan—The Angana’s ring; tales of the Three Wishes and the Faithful Beasts; legend of the Drei Feyen of Thal Vent—Legend of St. Kümmerniss; her effigy in Cadore; the prevailing minstrel—Turlulù—Remnants of Etruscan language—‘Storielle da rider’—The bear-hunters—The horrible snail—How to make a church tower grow—Social customs perhaps derived from Etruscan; similar to those of Lombardy and Lunigians—All Souls’ Day; feast of Sta. Lucia; Christmas; St. Anthony’s Day; Carneval; Giovedi de’ Gnocchi; St. Urban—Popular sayings about thunder, crickets, brambles, cockchafers, swallows, scorpions—Astronomical riddles 408

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.