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to himself. Poor Nunzia didn’t feel very well, and
asked her sister, «Would you mind combing my
hair?»
Her sister began combing her hair and when she
was undoing the braid at the back of her head, she
found a key attached there. Well, the cunning
sister said to herself, «How selfish my sister is!
She’s prevented me from seeing the whole house
and kept the key to herself!»
So what did she do? As Nunzia was dozing off, her
sister detached the key, went to the secret room,
and opening it she found there many beautiful
young women, all doing embroidery, because
Nunzia was expecting a baby, and they were
making clothes for it. But the moment they saw
her, their faces all grew yellow and pale, they
became ugly, and disappeared, some turning
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