year-only

Updated: May 18, 2025

Of 856 children living under its motherly care during 1895, 853 "died" in the course of that one year-only three survived; a wholesale massacre. That the moon stands in sympathetic relations with living vegetation is a fixed article of faith among the peasantry. They will prune their plants only when the satellite is waxing al sottile detta luna, as they say.

Norman Douglas - Old Calabria