ABSTRACT
And so it was: the pregnant lady went in and shared the bed with Master Bacù’s wife. Once they were together, the youth took off his woman’s clothing and appeared as he really was.
“Master Bacù! Master Bacù! It’s a boy!”231 shouted the wife. But Master Bacù thought that the pregnant woman had just given birth,
and his wife was announcing that it was a boy. So he shouted back to her, “That’s just fine! Let it be!” But when he heard his wife continuing to shout and raise a ruckus, he
opened the door and went in, and there he found the young man. He picked up a big cudgel and started after him to give him a beating, but the youth was no sluggard, and with a leap he got out of the way and was out the door in a flash.
