In Catalonia, on 23 April marks the day of Sant Jordi (tradition indicates trocar a rose for a book) In 1996 UNESCO declared the same date as World Book Day.
Our colleague, Gloria Aranda Clavero, wrote this story:
"Long ago, there in the mountains of Catalonia, a little dragon could not breathe fire.
Although the mother dragon and dragon father taught him and he explained how to do it and how to control the flames so as not to harm any living creature, the dragon was scared and preferred playing a pan flute that a child had left on the door of the cave where he lived with his elders.
however, was the birthday of the mother dragon and as a gift, the little dragon threw fire from its mouth, the flame went out slowly of his nose, as he wanted. But the most extraordinary thing is that the fire was accompanied by musical notes gushing because she had swallowed unintentionally, the pan flute and to make efforts to spit it out, what came was a musical fire that made her laugh to her parents and caused him great happiness.
From that moment, he spoke to his friend, the boy had given him this precious instrument, which he loved so much and now it had incorporated into his stomach .
The boy leaned on his idea for the Festival of Fire in the Mediterranean.
The dragon was happy, he was an artist, because not only loved music but also loved poetry and loved to hear from the mouth of his friend.
happened then, that the child gave her a book and the dragon discovered that reading was as fun as playing the flute. So come to understand that words were the great treasure of human beings. Since then, he wanted to be like them. But could not, because he was born dragon, and I knew grow and that its main function would be spitting fire.
But his human friend, explained that on earth there were also some very special creatures called women. The boy told him that these women were constructed with words themselves.
Women invented stories, emerging weaving their own stories, giving them the forms they desired. So reading, singing, laughing and making life a nice place.
was from the account given by the child, that the dragon is to become a human child and his desire was so strong, that was introduced in the form of music in some words spun by the women every Thursday in a Mediterranean village. Were women of all colors, weaving stories with different words, originating in their ancestral languages.
Since then, the wonderful thing is that each Thursday, the women find more songs, more poems, listen to more music from all over the world. There are also days when they feel hot, although it is winter in the Mediterranean. The heat makes them laugh, make them happy and their words become more and more passionate.
may not have noticed, but did not know the dragon breathe fire, they got into the soul, and harbors and whispers songs and their accompanying panpipes of human origin, who stayed in it forever. "
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