Without a Good Knot, the Stitch Won’t Hold—Pi ’un fari lu gruppiddu si perdi lu puntiddu

Once upon a time there was a grandmother who lived by herself in onehouse, and her granddaughter, who was married, lived in another.One day the grandmother fell ill, and so she called her granddaughter and said,

“Listen, my child, if you take care of me in my illness, then, after my death, I’ll give you the secret of my knotted string purse.”