Legend of the Moor’s Legacy (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Washington Irving
- First Published: 1832
- Type of Work: Tale
- Type of Plot: Folkore
- Time of Work: Seventeenth century
- Setting: Granada, Spain
- Principal Characters: Pedro Gil (Peregil), His Wife, A Moorish Shopkeeper, Pedrillo Pedrugo, The Alcalde, A Constable
- Genres: Long fiction, Folklore
- Subjects: Family or family life, Magic or magicians, Barbershops or barbers, Seventeenth century, Greed, Muslims, Gossip, Spain or Spanish people, Peasantry or peasants, Water, Treasure, Wells
- Locales: Spain, Granada, Spain
The Story:
In the Square of the Cisterns, fronting the royal palace in the fortress of the Alhambra, was a deep Moorish well of clear, cold water. So famous was the well throughout all Granada that to it repaired water carriers from every quarter of the city, some bearing great earthen jars on their own sturdy shoulders, others, more prosperous, driving donkeys similarly burdened. The well was also a great place for meeting and gossip. Each day, housewives, lazy servants, beggars—idlers of every age and condition—gathered on the stone benches to talk over the doings...
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