A cooperation of Spain, France, Italy, Greece & Poland, 2013/2014.

1. TEEN MAGAZINE –
getting to know our legends
& interests
2013/2014
National identity through
legendary past
Issue
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Legendary past of
our cities
II
Myths & legends of
the countries
III
Heroes, heroines
& other symbolic
figures
IV
Compliments
In this Issue:
~ THE LORE
OF
THE LANDS ~

4. Dear Readers,
After long hours of group
work, we are happy to present
you the first Issue of our Teen
Magazine, which is about
legends of our past. This
work is part of an etwinning
project undertaken by 77
students of five different
countries:
Poland, France, Spain, Italy
and Greece.
The goal of this project is to
get to know each other
through the different myths of
our countries and to find
differences and similarities in
the way people from different
origins and backgrounds
interpret the world that
surrounds them.
Our first Issue is divided in
three main parts. The first
one deals with legends of the
cities our students come
from. The second one is
about legends of the wider
regions they live in. The last
section is devoted to our
favourite heroes, from our
own country or from our
etwinners’ country and the
imaginary way we picture
them.
We hope that by browsing in
the pictures of our e-
magazine you will enjoy it as
much as we did while
preparing it.
The teachers:
Kasia, Christine, Concepci
on, Anna, Elpida.
Editorial

5. I Legendary past of
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6. One day prince Leszek
decided to go to the nearby
forest with his entourage to
hunt down some
animals. He was in hurry
chasing a deer, so he didn’t
notice that his entourage
was left behind. On the
certain moment he felt
really tired, that’s why he
decided do have some rest
under a tree. In the same
time half-wild pitch burners
appeared. The Prince was
invoking on his price
immunity, treating with his
warriors. Pitch burners were
impassive, they were
mocking Leszek saying that
nobody has ever left those
forests alive. Right after that
they pushed him so hard
that he felt. Then they
started to rip his clothes.
Suddenly they heard horse’s
tramp. They were convinced
that troops are coming to
save their master, so they
decided to run away.
It turns out that the noise
was made not by prince`s
team, but by herd of horses
whose guide was white
stallion. Prince within the
framework of gratitude for
animals, which saved his
life, he decided to make a
city in this place and named
it Konin and in the crest
place a white horse.
The legend of Konin, Poland

7. Nanterre (Paris) France
Legends of Nanterre
Genevieve was born in
Nanterre in 423 and died in
Paris on January 3rd 512…
The mother of Genevieve
there was blind. Genevieve
have cured her mother, this
one asked her daughter to go
and get some water from a
well. So her mother
recovered the view
immediately after Genevieve
had had him applied the
water to eyes.
Sometime later, Genevieve
conviced, the residents of
Paris not to abandon the city
to the Huns. She encouraged
the Parisians to resist the
invasions.

8. THE RICE’S SHIP
It is very common to use the
term "Más perdido que el
barco del arroz" (“Most lost
than the rice's ship”) in the
southern region of Andalusia
in Spain. The origin of this
expression goes back to a
legend or events that
occurred in Andalusia.
In 1940 an Argentine ship
was sent to Spain after the
war to alleviate hunger. This
boat was loaded with rice to
alleviate the famine that
many sectors of the Spanish
population was in those
years. This boat was called
Alcatraz and never came to
any Andalusian port.
They began circulating
rumors that the crew had a
contagious a deadly disease
that had made the boat were
aimlessly. There was also talk
that the ship had an accident
because of the weather. In
addition, people said the
cargo was stolen by the same
crew and its cargo sold in the
"black market". The only
true and proven is that the
ship carrying rice never came
to any Spanish port officially.
But also occurred many other
situations involving foreign
ships carrying rice to
Andalusia:
Ten years later (1950),
another boatload of rice ("El
vapor de Cádiz”),
accidentally let go the ropes
that was subject to Cadiz
port because of a temporary
and the ship broke in two.
The legend of Castilleja de la
Cuesta (Sevilla region) Spain

9. Forty years later (1980), it
was up a rice collection in
Seville for Ethiopia, and the
boat not reach the port of
destination. In 1994, a
Cypriot ship on its course by
the Guadalquivir destined
Seville got caught and the
puffed rice split the ship in
two.
Some people say that a
Chinese ship that sank off
the coast of Cadiz and You
know what it was loaded? ...
From rice!

10. The legend of Nola (Naples)
Italy
Nola: its HISTORY…
The town-Hall
The origins of the name are
uncertain, because the city
was FIRST called “Hyria” or
“Uri”, but at the end it was
called “Nuvla”, that is new
city.
If you are looking for a place
where culture has been in
the century a close
friend, that is Nola.
Characters like Giordano
Bruno,
The PHILOSOPHER G.
BRUNO’S MONUMENT
Giovanni Merliano, Luigi
tansillo etc, made this land
famous and privileged all
over THE world.
Nola is a city full of history
infact it has The Prehistoric
village that is an
extraordinary archaeological
site buried by A volcanic
eruption.

11. Nola had two roman
amphitheatres, the oldest
ones in the world.
Nola has been involved in the
fall of the Roman Empire and
Nolan dioceses, one of the
most ancient and great in
Campania, became a real
guide, in particular thanks to
St. Paulinus’ cult.
Nola was also influenced by
the noble and powerful
family, the Orsinis, who
elevated Nola to the capital of
their county, making it
preciuos, thanks to
monuments of great
value, like the ”Royal palace”
and the several monasteries
as S. Angelo and S. Chiara.
This great city has also
many legends about St.
Paulinus: It is said that the
vandals after the devastation
of the city captured some
people including a widow’s
son.
The prisoners were SENT as
slaves to Turkey.
The widow asked the bishop
Paulinus to help her son.
So paulinus went to turkey
and worked as a gardener by
the sultan.
Since he was able to grow
flowers and fruit in whatever
season, even if it snowed, the
sultan wanted to know who
he was and paulinus revealed
the truth.
At the end the bishop offered
himself to the vandals in
exchange for the prisoners'
freedom.
The sultan freed all of them
and they could come back
home.
Nolan residents welcomed
the bishop on his return with
lilies and happiness.
Every year, on 22th june, nola
celebrates st. paulinus with
the “feast of lilies”.

12. The legend of Acharnes
(Athenes) Greece
Athena and Poseidon
fighting for the capital’s
name
Heroes or heroines are
usually born in an
extraordinary way. The
heroine we are going to talk
about is Athena the goddess
of wisdom, in fact she is the
main character in the
following myth which we are
going to describe in the
following lines.
Centuries ago king
Cercrops, the first king of
Athens, tried to find the
guardian God of the city. He
called on Athena and
Poseidon because both
desired to become the patron
of the city. At this point we
ought to refer who Poseidon
was, he was the god of the
sea and the protector of
sailors. Additionally, Athena
and the latter began a
contest, so they could claim
the city. The Gods, king
Cercrops, and the others
gathered at the Acropolis.
Poseidon struck the earth
with his trident and gifted
the local people with the
Erekhtheis Sea.

13. The people who were present
at that time liked it at first,
but after tasting it they
didnʼtlike the salty water.
Then, Athena planted an
olive tree, which gave people
oil, wood, olives-food and
building material.
Cercrops preferred Athenaʼs
gift. As a result, Athena
became the protector of the
city. Having lost the contest
Poseidon was angry and he
flooded Attica with salty
water. To sum up, Athena
gave her name to the city,
which was Athens, the capital
of Greece.

14. II Myths & legends of
the countries

15. The foreman of Kalisz castle had a beautiful
daughter Dorothy. He loved her very much
and wished her luck. He wanted her to
marry a candidate, who will not only be
wealthy and wise, but the one whom
Dorothy will truly love. The girl didn’t hurry
to marry. None of the the candidates suited
her taste. She was sitting alone in her room
waiting for the true love.
Dorothy didn’t like elegant dresses or
bonnets, but she really liked elaborately
decorated shoes. The foreman was doing
whatever his daughter wanted and every
month the shoemaker Marty was brought to
the castle, because none of the craftsmen
could embroider such a wonderful
ornaments on women’s shoes with golden
and silver thread.
Once upon a time king sent the foreman on
a long and dangerous journey with
important mission. The months passed and
foreman didn’t came back. Kalisz was going
through the time of plague and starvation.
People were dropping on streets like flies.
But Marty, despite the „pestilential air” in
the city, still managed to visit Dorothy in
her castle and sew new shoes for her.
During these meetings they fell in love and
started to spend more time together. This
caught castle guards’ attention.
The guard tried to catch shoemaker. When
he tried to run away, he fell from the castle’s
wall and died. Soon after Marty’s death the
foreman came back to the castle. He was
furious and commanded to mure his
daughter in one of castle towers, where she
was starved to death.
After her death the tower was used as a
prison for bad and vicious girls, which were
later called Dorothies. Later even the tower
was called Dorothy.
The Legend about Dorothy (PL)

16. The story of Madeleine… (FR)
In the XIX
century, Madeleine is a cake
shopkeeper in Nanterre. She
sells cakes in the Tuillerie
garden in Paris. The city of
Nanterre has been famous
for a very long time for its
delicious cakes. The name of
“Madeleine” will remain
forever associated with a
pastry, in memory of lost
times. This culinary
tradition goes back probably
to the XVI century. The
bishop of Saint Germain had
sent blessed breads marked
with a cross to Saint
Genevieve, to show
respect to her.

17. La Celestina… (ES)
La Celestina is a passionate
love that ends in tragedy.
Calisto, a nobleman enters the
garden of Pleberio. There he
sees Pleberio’s daughter,
Melibea, and falls in love with
her, but she rejects his hasty
advances. On the advice of
Sempronio, Calisto seeks the
help of Celestina, a former
prostitute, and now an active
go-between, witch, and
virgin-mender.
Then Celestine helps to
Calisto and Calisto and
Melibea fall in love. Celestine
needs a reward for his work
and Calisto give to her a gold
necklace. Calisto's servants
claim a part of the reward but
Celestina don't want to give
that part and the servants kill
her. They flee and then
imprison them.
Calisto visit to Melibea and for
see her, he goes up with a
stairs from the street. When
he is talking with her, there is
a fight in the street and stairs
fall with Calisto. Calisto dead.
Melibea sees Calisto dead and
pulls from a tower. Melibea's
dad cry her death and ends
the story.

18. The legend of Naples … (IT)
A legend in Naples:
“The Munaciello”
The beginning of the
story was around 1445
during the Aragonese
reign. The beautiful
Caterinella Frezza,daughter
of a cloth merchant, fell
in love with Stefano
Mariconda, a boy. The love
between two was strongly
opposed. The fate wanted
the story to end in tragedy.
Stefano murdered himself
in the place of their secret
meetings while Caterinella
retired in a convent.
Caterinella had a baby.
The nuns of the convent
adopted him and they
sewed clothes for him
similar to those of a
monk with a hood to
disguise the deformity
that the
boy suffered. So he was
called “ The
Munaciello”(little
monk). He had magical
powers. The Munaciello
died
mysteriously.
He sometimes still appears,
bringing a good or a bad
luck, according to the
feeling he has with the
people
who see him.

19. Daedalus & Icarus… (GR)
Daedalus and Icarus
Daedalus was a highly
respected Athenian artistan
descendant from the royal
family of Cecrops , the
mythical king of Athens. He
was talented in sculpture and
a great inventor. Despite his
self-confidence Deadalus
commited a crime of envy
against Talus and threw him
off of Acropolis. For this
crime Deadalus was exiled to
Crete and worked for King
Minos. There he had a son
with the beautiful Naucrate.
Minos told Deadalus to build
a labyrinth in order to
imprison the dreaded
Minotaur, which was a
monster with the head of a
bull and the body of a man.
Poseidon had sent it to him
as a gift. Minos was ashamed
by the birth of such a
creature and imprisoned it in
the labyrinth where it fed on
humans.
Theseus was very upset by his
action and went to Crete in
order to kill the animal.

20. Ariadne, who was the son of
Minos, fell in love with
Theseus and with Deadalus
they helped him to find the
way back , out of the
labyrinth. Minos lheard
about Deadalus’ action and
he imprisoned him and
Icarus in the labyrinth too.
Deadalus made wings of
wax in order to escape. They
managed to escape and to
fly away. However Deadalus
told Icarus not to fly too
close to the sun but Icarus
disobeyed his father and his
wings melted. The sea where
he fell was named Icarion
Sea after him and the island
Hercules discovered his
body was named Icaria.

21. III Heroes, heroines &
other symbolic figures

22. Stories about a
Spanish Hero:

23. The description of Leszek I The
White (Greek interpretation)
Leszek I the White (1186-
1227) was Prince of
Sandomierz and High Duke
of Poland from 1194 until his
assassination in 1227. He was
the eldest surviving son of
Casimir II the Just and
Helen of Znojmo. During his
reign, he created a lot enemies
that tried to usurp his throne.
His position as High Duke was
stolen from him 3 times but he
always managed to somehow
reclaim it.
Leszek was a handsome man.
By the looks of things, he was
of plump weight, but that is
perhaps of the heavy clothing
he constantly wore. He had
golden hair that lightly
brushed his shoulders and in
addition to that, large dark
green eyes that seemed to
shine brightly in the light,
accompanied by a unique
jawline.
He was not a completely stable
ruler. Even though he showed
a lot of promise, he was strict
and demanding and perhaps a
drunk. That was maybe
because his father died very
early in his life. His demise
probably affected him
psychologically, and had a
huge impact on his behavior
and ruling. His controversial
actions in his reign deemed
him unreliable to the people of
Poland, who didn’t have much
faith in him. Despite all that
though, he was able to lead his
country at war against the Rus’
and come out victorious. His
reign ended abruptly with his
tragic death at the age of 41.
He was assassinated by his
enemies in Poland.

24. The description of Leszek I The
White, cd.
In a
nutshell, was
Leszek a good
ruler? Yes and
no. One could
say that he had
not matured
enough. That
had he lived
longer, gotten
over his father’s
death and
become
wiser, he
would’ve made
a great leader.
But for the
major things he
did, he was not
a bad ruler at
all. It is just
that he
could’ve done
many more
things but he
had much
more to learn.
Unfortunately,
his enemies
prevented him
from showing
off his true
skills and
letting him
fully grasp the
concept of
being the
leader of a
nation. A sad
story really, of a
man who
showed great
promise.

25. Leszek’s speech to the Athenians of
today
Hello most admired
Athenians!
I am Leszek I, the Prince of
Sandomierz. I have been
invited to participate in the
commemoratial event
organized by the
Municipality of Attiki in
order to celebrate the 2500-
year-anniversary of the
existence of Athens, the
capital of Greece.
I am going to talk to you
about the problems of
contemporary Athens and
some possible solutions seen
from the viewpoint of an
admirer of ancient
Greece, myself.
The first topic of my speech
is going to be about the
environmental problems of
your city and their solutions.
as well as. The second topic
is going to be about the
problem of poverty and
homeless people. Last but
not least, I would like to
discuss the significance of
culture and traditions for a
nation throughout the
centuries.
Like almost every other
European city, Athens suffers
from air and land pollution
as well as lack of greenery. To
begin with, air and land
pollution can be caused by
vehicles and factories. These
emit harmful substances and
CO2 (carbon dioxide) in the
atmosphere. You may know
that atmospheric pollution is
called “smog”. The presence
of these substances in the
atmosphere can cause
adverse health effects in
living organisms and
ecosystems, such as the
greenhouse effect.

26. Besides, another serious
matter is litter. It is almost
everywhere around the city.
Also, the factories throw their
toxic wastes in rivers, lakes
and many times they bury
them under the ground. All
these provoke land pollution.
The land pollution causes the
pollution of solid and water,
and provokes disturbances in
flora and fauna.
Furthermore, Athens suffers
from lack of greenery. This
causes a suffocating effect on
people who live here, but also
on tourists who form a bad
impression about Greece.
Moreover, the lack of
greenery in big cities has as a
result the lack of fresh air, so
many people suffer from
health problems.
Simultaneously, you must
think of ways to solve the
serious problem of pollution
and lack of greenery. Some of
the possible solutions, my
dear Athenians, might be the
following. Environmental
education is the one that
could help change the
current system of values
about environmental issues
and improve them. It could
act as a spearhead for social
change and be able to
inoculate young people with
new ideas, new attitudes and
new morals to suit the
growing needs of man and
nature in order to build a
better future for the whole
planet. One way to solve the
matter of air pollution is to
reduce the amount of cars, so
people will use more their
bikes and means of transport.
Additionally, you should try
to limit land pollution. A way
is to put in roads more
garbage cans, so as to
encounter the problem of
litter.

27. Also, you can apply the
ecological decomposition of
trash, which is used in many
European countries as well as
to apply more the recycling
process. Finally, about the
lack of greenery, you should
reduce the construction of
new buildings and plant new
trees. You should limit the
cutting of trees and find
other ways to produce
timber. In addition to
this, you should create new
parks.
Another serious problem of
your city is the economic
crisis, the result of which is
poverty. Poor people are
forced to abandon their
houses because of lack of
money and job. This leads to
many people having to live in
the center of Athens or
anywhere else with their
families. Usually they live
under harsh conditions
which means no food, no
medicines, being exposed to
cold. As I was told, in
winter most of them search
for a peaceful and safe place
to sleep at night and keep
their bodies warm. I was
astonished to see an
increasing number of
homeless people on the
pavements of your city.
Something must urgently be
done for this matter.
As far as culture is
concerned, it is of high
significance for a nation
because it calls back the
values which have declined.
It helped our country to
stand out among others, it
helps people remember the
facts which happened in the
past. Without it people
wouldn’t be able to recognize
themselves. Through
tradition each nation can
achieve coherence and
successful creativity.

28. Well, greetings from me!
Farewell my dear friends. I
am deeply moved for the
opportunity that I had to talk
to you and the chance to
finally discover the beauty of
your country. I hope what I
said will sensitize you and
next time that I will visit your
country it will be even better
than it was.

29. Compliments to:
All the 76 students who have worked very hard to create
this Issue of the Teen Magazine, which are as follows:
Djamila, Chabani, Jim, Ramya, John, Alexis,
Catherine, Martyna, Abdel, Juan, Juan, Mathieu,
Pauline, Antony, Brice, Daniel, Kamel, Nefeli, Patrick,
Mariam, Labros, Elena, Gonzalo, Sergio, Al. Amine,
Soumayat, Marta, Ewelina, Anastasia, Aris, Jim,
Chris, Joanna, Christine, Karim, Vladimir, Aristotelis,
Maciej, Yvenson, Vasia, Christian, Issam, Dany,
Florian, Haris, Nikoleta, Manuel, Weronika,
Apostolis, Weronika, Georgia, Jerome, Inma, Faycal,
Manal, Adrien, Belen, Ignacio, Fernando, Sara,
Younes, Marine, Sophia, Paweł, Nina, Marta, Ewa,
Imane, Emilio, Antonio, Alexandros, Patrycja, Ernest,
Piotr, Bouchra, Moliere
and
the five teachers coordinating their Teams:
Christina, Concepcion, Anna, Elpida & Kasia.

30. 2013/2014
This magazine is part of a student project made for the
eTwinning European program. No commercial use is
intended for the contents of this publication.