Mermay and the mermaid fairy Melusine

It’s been some time since the last update to my legends sketchbook. I’ve been so taken by delivering new projects and publishing new books that I didn’t add new pages for a while. Despite everything, this month I really wanted to give some space to my passion for folklore. In the artists’ community online, May…

Folktale Week: secret

At Nido dell’Orso, above Prali, on the Piedmontese Alps in Italy, there were two sisters of opposite souls: one was kind and a great worker, the other was rude and lazy. Although the good girl spent her days at work in the stable, she always had some money to buy new clothes and jewels that…

Folktale week: home

Once upon a time, in the mountains of the Val Pellice, in Piemonte (the north-west region of Italy), in the meadows around Barma d’Aout, there were the houses of the fantine, as the fairies are called here. They were slim and industrious women who lived by raising cattle. In time, they had become friends with…