29/01/2021
🇬🇧English version:
Once upon a time in Milan lived a white hen blackbirds' family: Pasquino, his wife Nerea and their children Verina, Podino and Sirino. During the summer, the family built their nest on a high tree in the yard of a building in Porta Nuova. Nonetheless, the winter came earlier that year covering all the city with a white soft snow and bringing a biting cold with itself. Nerea one day told Pasquino :"it's too cold, our children will die! We need to look for another nest". Hence, Pasquino, explored all the neighborhood and decided to move the nest under a gutter, near a chimney. Pasquino and Nerea took turns to warm up and look for foods for their little hen blackbirds. However, all the remaining crumbs were covered by the snow and the cold continued to increase. Therefore, Pasquino decided to fly in the village near Milano, looking for a warmer shelter and some food for his family. In the meanwhile, the cold continue to grow, Nerea, to protect her children frozen and starved, decided to move the nest right under the smoking chimney from which a nice warmth was coming. The freeze continue for three days: the last three days of January. When Pasquino came back was almost not able to recognize his family. Those, as a metter of fact, due to the smoke and the haze, became all black! The first day of February a shy sun arose, and the hen blackbirds' family decided to exit from the nest. At that point, also Pasquino was all black since he passed all night tenderly hugging his wife and his children. From that moment on, all the hen blackbirds were born black and the white ones became a rareness.
Today, to point out an exceptional event someone can say "you have seen a white hen blackbird", and to remeber the story of this hen blackbirds' family of Milano, the last days of January, the coldest ones, are called "the days of the hen blackbird".
