The Fairy tale Forest. #1
Hello, friends after a long absence I always come home, I had to recharge my energy and above all put some serenity in my life.
We are ready and here we are with new more or less fantastic stories more or less real like today's one which is a mix between fairytale and reality, a mix between being an adult and being a child ... a journey into a world ageless where anyone of any age could experience beauty amazement and indulge in gaping dreams.
After this brief introduction, we leave for the journey today I am talking about a magical place located in the mountains of Reggio Emilia (Italy).
The location is exactly San Giovanni di Querciola in the municipality of Viano and here Mr Dino, whom I had the pleasure of meeting on our tour of this enchanted place, has built a real fairy world for children but not only made of sculptures that represent the characters of various fairy tales made from dried chestnut trunks.
Fables Fables and more fables renamed "IL BOSC D 'LA FOLA" (dialect) or "THE FAIRY TALE FOREST", wherever you turn, characters from the many fantasy worlds of different writers are reproduced, starting from Pinocchio di Collodi, passing through Little Red Riding Hood up to Snow White by the Grimm Brothers and many many others ...
Mr Dino told us that it all started a bit for fun when in 2017 he wanted to make a Pinocchio for his grandson and since that day he has never stopped creating a fairy tale a year. His works have aroused such interest that they have been exhibited in this wonderful and evocative place, which is the destination of many more or fewer adults and more or fewer children.
In the video, the sculptures of the first fairy tale we encountered or The magic steel , a fairy tale that I did not know and which I did not find so beautiful when I went to look for it, as Mr Dino also admitted, but the sculptures that they represent it are fantastic.
Summary of the story The magic lock for those unfamiliar with it.
The fairy tale tells of a greedy soldier who, returning from the war, met a witch who asked him to lower himself into a hollow tree.
At the bottom of this tree are three rooms guarded by three dogs.
The witch promised the soldier to make the three huge dogs harmless for the time he needed to retrieve a flint that belonged to his grandmother.
The soldier returns to the witch with the coins and the steel and decides to kill the witch.
For a while, he led the good life with the money and decided he wanted to marry the beautiful princess.
Unaccustomed to wealth, he soon remained poor.
He remembers the lock and his secrets: by setting fire to one or two or three times he has the opportunity to make the three dogs and their money appear.
After discovering the trick, the dogs lead the princess.
The queen, suspicious, followed the princess with a ruse and found the soldier sentencing him to death.
On the gallows, the soldier asked for the last wish and with his flintlock, he brought up the dogs he asked for help.
The three dogs flew all through the air from spectators to rulers, killing them all.
In the end, the soldier and the princess were married with the approval of the people and the three dogs remained by their side, remaining the most faithful servants.
This is the first fairy tale represented by the artist Dino who every year enjoys creating a new fairy tale for his grandchildren which then becomes the destination of many curious and above all dreamers and children.
Here is the artist armed with his hammer who allowed me to take a photo of him for my blog, to which I thank him both for the photo and also for the beautiful journey made in the middle of this wood.
See you in the next episode with a new fairytale carved in the chestnut grove !!
