The legend of the rebel millstone and its “nachiro”

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Il nachiro e la macina ribelle/en
Comune	Lecce
Tipologia	Conoscenza del Patrimonio Culturale e Ambientale

Una macina magica a pochi chilometri da Lecce. A metà strada fra la città e la marina di San Cataldo si trova la masseria Morello, che custodisce nel sottosuolo un antico frantoio ipogeo.

The owner of masseria Morello was Camillo Morello, a reach and heartless man. He was treating his workers as slaves, making them working all day long without any breaks. Among them, the “nachiro” was the one in charge of work supervision. However, one night in January, after few months of continuous work, they were exhausted and they decided to take a short break. The “nachiro” was tolerant with the workers and he permitted the unofficial break.

Even though the break was not long, Camillo Morello arrived into the oil mill and, seeing nobody at work, he became extremely angry. He asked to his workers to constrain the “nachiro” in the oil pool, where he would be killed from the millstone. But the destiny had chosen another conclusion for this story. Indeed, the heavy millstone suddenly dropped on the ground, saving the “nachiro” from a certain death. From that day the oil production stopped and the millstone is still in the same place where it dropped.

Il nachiro e la macina ribelle/en
Comune	Lecce
Tipologia	Conoscenza del Patrimonio Culturale e Ambientale

Una macina magica a pochi chilometri da Lecce. A metà strada fra la città e la marina di San Cataldo si trova la masseria Morello, che custodisce nel sottosuolo un antico frantoio ipogeo.

The owner of masseria Morello was Camillo Morello, a reach and heartless man. He was treating his workers as slaves, making them working all day long without any breaks. Among them, the “nachiro” was the one in charge of work supervision. However, one night in January, after few months of continuous work, they were exhausted and they decided to take a short break. The “nachiro” was tolerant with the workers and he permitted the unofficial break.

Even though the break was not long, Camillo Morello arrived into the oil mill and, seeing nobody at work, he became extremely angry. He asked to his workers to constrain the “nachiro” in the oil pool, where he would be killed from the millstone. But the destiny had chosen another conclusion for this story. Indeed, the heavy millstone suddenly dropped on the ground, saving the “nachiro” from a certain death. From that day the oil production stopped and the millstone is still in the same place where it dropped.