Hello and welcome to the best of Super Great Kids Stories.
We're releasing one popular story from our archive in the middle of each month.
The story this month is Mama Draga from a scary fairy tale from Sicily.
And it's told by Emily Hannah Gracebrook from Dragonfly Tales.
It was first featured on the podcast on the 6th of January 2023.
And lots of you choose it as one of your favourite stories.
It's a little bit scary, so you need to be brave to listen.
But of course, like most fairy tales, it has a happy ending.
And it will be featured in our second Super Great Kids Story book.
In a nice little village in Sicily, there lived an old woman and her daughter in a tumble-down cottage.
They did not have much, but they were contented, for they had each other.
And although the cottage was a bit shabby here and there, it was neatly swept, posy on the inside.
And for most of the year, the outside of the cottage was covered with roses.
Beautiful pink and red roses.
The daughter's name was Rosetta.
And she was good and kind to her mother.
For her mother had taught her that kindness and love are the most important things in the whole world.
She also told her that the simple things in life gave the most pleasure.
And when Rosetta was a baby, her mother would sing her an old Sicilian lullaby.
But now her mother was older and her voice not so strong.