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Strega Nona
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Strega Nona is a series of storybooks by Tomie dePaola.In the southern Italian province of Calabria, a long time ago, there lives an old woman known to all as Strega Nona ("Grandma Witch"). She is a traditional healer and wise woman, who helps all the local people with their troubles. Helping her are the well-meaning (but impulsive and easily distracted) farm boy Big Anthony, and the earnest and outspoken Bambolona (the baker's daughter).No matter what problems may arise, Strega Nona always pulls through, with her gentle wisdom, level head, and sharp wit. | |
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Strega Nona Takes a Vacation (2000): One night, Strega Nona has a dream about her late mentor, Grandma Concetta. The next day, Strega Nona is uncharacteristically distracted, leading everyone — even Big Anthony — to suggest that she take a vacation. So, she decides to go to the seashore for a week, leaving Anthony and Bambolona to look after business for her. What could possibly go wrong? | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: In Big Anthony and the Magic Ring, when the lovable oaf uses Strega Nona's ring to make himself handsome and goes out dancing in the village square, the ladies start hounding him to dance with each of them, not even giving him a moment to catch his breath. To make matters worse, the ring gets stuck on his finger, preventing him from undoing the spell. In Strega Nona's Harvest, Big Anthony listens to the spell that Strega Nona recites to make her garden grow, and recites it perfectly, including blowing the three kissesnote The "secret ingredient" to Strega Nona's magic is love. — though he blows three extra, just to make sure. Partly due to this, and partly due to his planting seeds willy-nilly instead of in carefully arranged rows, his garden grows haphazardly, and with more vegetables than he can handle. Things turn out OK in the end, though; Strega Nona (who remains none the wiser as to where the extra veggies came fromnote Big Anthony keeps leaving them outside her door during the night, until her pantry is full to bursting) donates many of them to the local convent, and then uses the rest to create a harvest feast for the entire village. | |
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Balloon Belly | |
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Balloon Belly: In the first book, Strega Nona punishes Big Anthony for flooding the town with pasta by making him eat all of it. On the final pages of the book, he sports a visible potbelly. | |
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Food End | |
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Food End: The first book ends with Big Anthony having to eat all the pasta by himself as punishment for misusing the magic pot. | |
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Eyes Always Shut | |
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Eyes Always Shut: Downplayed. Strega Nona is frequently drawn with her eyes closed, though not always (especially when surprised). | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Gentle Giant: Big Anthony, as his name suggests, is quite tall, and while he may have trouble paying attention, he means well. | |
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Our Witches Are Different | |
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Our Witches Are Different: As her name suggests, Strega Nona is a witch (or, at the very least, has magical powers), but she's a very kind old woman who uses her magic and knowledge of traditional medicine to help people around her. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: Bambolona first appeared as a minor character in Big Anthony and the Magic Ring as an Abhorrent Admirer to Big Anthony. In Strega Nona's Magic Lessons, she became Strega Nona's apprentice, and for the rest of the series, she was a competent assistant, in contrast to Big Anthony's irresponsibility. Her crush on him also disappeared. | |
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Never Bareheaded | |
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Never Bareheaded: Strega Nona is almost never seen with her bandanna off. | |
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Force Feeding | |
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Force Feeding: Big Anthony defies Strega Nona's orders not to touch her magic pasta pot and serves up a meal for the townspeople. However, he does not completely know how to make the pot stop, and he unwittingly fills up Strega Nona's house and nearly destroys the town with pasta before Strega Nona can intervene. Afterward, she orders Big Anthony to eat the enormous amount of pasta he conjured up by nightfall, so she can sleep in her bed, in lieu of punishment from the townspeople. He does so, becoming bloated and likely getting a severe case of indigestion. | |
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Radish Cure | |
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Radish Cure: The first book features a "Sorcerer's Apprentice" Plot starring the titular grandmotherly witch and her magic pot that produces pasta on command. The apprentice in question, Big Anthony, wants to show the townsfolk that it's magic, so while Strega Nona is out, he says the magic words to produce the pasta. However, he doesn't know that he has to blow three kisses to make the pasta pot stop cooking. His punishment for having flooded the entire village with pasta is to eat all of it. | |
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Sorcerer's Apprentice Plot | |
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"Sorcerer's Apprentice" Plot: In the first book, when Big Anthony sees that Strega Nona can magically produce pasta from her cooking pot, but doesn't pay attention to how she gets it to stop. When he tries to show it off to the townsfolk while she's gone, the village is drowning in pasta by the time she gets back. | |
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Dumb Blonde | |
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Dumb Blonde: Downplayed with Big Anthony. He's not stupid so much as easily distracted, but his Aesop Amnesia and impulsivity tend to cloud his judgment. | |
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Sobriquet Sex Switch | |
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Sobriquet Sex Switch: In Strega Nona's Magic Lessons, Big Anthony is jealous when he sees Strega Nona teaching magic to Bambolona but refuses to teach him because of the disastrous consequences of his use of magic in the past. To learn magic from her, he dresses up as a girl and calls himself "Antonia". | |
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Early Personality Signs | |
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Early Personality Signs: In his backstory, Big Anthony knocks over the cake at his first birthday party, and later gets distracted by a singing bird when learning to drink on his own, hinting at how he unintentionally makes a problem worse because of his difficulty paying attention. | |
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Tilting Tower of Pisa | |
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Tilting Tower of Pisa: In his backstory, Big Anthony arrives in Pisa and is so tired that he falls asleep against a tower, and wakes up to find that he's leaned so hard against it that he's tilted the tower. He actually hasn't, but it was so dark when he arrived that he didn't notice. His idea to fix it is to use ropes to raise it perfectly upright again, much to the consternation of the townsfolk. | |
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! | |
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Big Anthony's defining trait is his poor attention span. Big Anthony: His Story reveals how he struggled with this growing up. The first sign of this flaw appeared when he was a toddler, learning to drink from a cup; he wound up spilling all over himself when he looked up at a singing bird. | |
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Gratuitous Italian | |
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Gratuitous Italian: The characters sometimes pepper their sentences with Italian words (e.g., "Grazie," "Sì," "Santo cielo," etc.). | |
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Black Bead Eyes | |
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Black Bead Eyes: As per Tomie dePaola's usual style, the characters all have black dots for eyes. | |
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Aesop Amnesia | |
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Aesop Amnesia: From his very first appearance, Big Anthony keeps getting into trouble when he tries to use Strega Nona's magic and learns that it should only be used by someone who knows how to use it — yet it never seems to stick. | |
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Incoming Ham | |
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Incoming Ham: In Strega Nona: Her Story, Giuseppe (Strega Nona's father) and Zianote Aunt Rosa are waiting for her to be born. Grandma Concetta has helped deliver all of Giuseppe's children in the past, but due to the stormy weather that night, he worries that she won't make it. Zia Rosa suggests that the unborn child is waiting for something or someone; right on cue, Grandma Concetta comes in through the door with a theatrical flourish, announcing, "No grandchild of mine can be born without me!" With that, she rolls up her sleeves, calls Zia Rosa to help her, and in no time at all, the future Strega Nona is born. | |
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Cool Old Lady | |
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Cool Old Lady: Strega Nona is kind, wise, calm under pressure, and well-versed in magic and traditional herbal medicine. Grandma Concetta counts as one, too; after all, she taught Strega Nona everything she knows. | |
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No Antagonist | |
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No Antagonist: By and large, the conflict of each story comes about from the characters' own actions. Strega Nona Meets Her Match might be considered an exception, though no actual malice is shown on Strega Amelia's part. | |
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Magic Cauldron | |
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Magic Cauldron: Strega Nona has a magic pasta pot, shaped like a large iron cauldron, that can produce infinite amounts of pasta. | |
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