Download or read book Virgilius The Sorcerer - An Italian Fairy Tale written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 193 ÿ In this 193rdÿ issue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the tale of ?Virgillius the Sorcerer.? Virgillius, or Virgil, was born to a Roman Knight but his father died when he was quite young. Unscrupulous relatives stripped his mother of the family?s wealth, but his mother managed to save some and sent Virgillius to school in ÿCastile?La Mancha, Spain so that one day he could study at the great University of Toledo. While yet a boy he discovered a library of magic books and being an avid reader, began to learn magic. Returning to Rome as a young man he uses his magic for good, but is treated with scorn and suspicion by the people, but especially by the Emperor. Even so his magic continues to grow and he becomes more powerful. And then one day Virgillius disappears.................Download and read this story to find where Virgillius disappeared to and what adventures he got up to while he was away. ÿ INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES ÿ Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps. ÿ Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". ÿ It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through the Middle East and Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, can be altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.