Petey Pete was a kid this tall, who was going to school. In his way to school there was a garden with a pear-tree, Petey Pete used to climb all the way up to eat all the pears.
Under the pear-tree, the Witchey Witch passed by and said:” Petey Pete give me a pear, with your white hand, I swear just looking at them makes my mouth watered!”
Petey Pete thought:” Her mouth’s watered because she wants to eat me, not the pears”, and he didn’t want to get off the tree. He picked up a pear and threw at the Witch. But the pear fell down, right where a cow just passed and left a present.
So the Witch repeated:” Petey Pete give me a pear, with your white hand, I swear just looking at them makes my mouth watered!”
But Pete didn’t get off the tree and threw another pear, which fell down again, right where a horse passed by and left a pond. The Witch repeated her prayer and Petey Pete thought it was better to please her. He came down from the tree and handed a pear to her. The Witch opened the sac but instead of putting the pear inside, she put Petey Pete, closed the sac e carried it on her shoulder.
After a while, Witchey Witch had to stop and went on the little house outside ( phrasal for “fare un bisognino” ? ): she put down the sac and went behind a bush. In the meanwhile, Petey Pete with his mousy teeth gnawed the rope that closed the sac, he jumped outside and put a nice big rock and ran away. The Witch came back, picked up the sac and got on her way again:” Oh my, Oh my! Petey Pete you weigh like a big rock!”. She got home but the door was closed so she yelled at her daughter: “Big Daisy (?) come down and open the door! Prepare the cauldron to cook Petey Pete”.
Big Daisy opened the door and prepared the cauldron filled with water. As soon as the water started to boil, the Witchey Witch emptied the sac inside: Plaff! – the sound of the stone as it fell and broke through the cauldron; the water went everywhere, on the fire, on the floor and burned the Witch’s legs.
“ Mother, Mother what does this mean? Why do you bring rocks to boil?” said Big Daisy. And the Witch:” My darling, light the fire back again, I will be back soon.” She disguised herself with a blonde wig and went away with the sac.
Instead of going to school, Petey Pete went back to the pear-tree. Hoping not to be recognized, the Witchey Witch came back all disguised and said to him:” Petey Pete give me a pear, with your white hand, I swear just looking at them makes my mouth watered!”.
But Petey Pete recognized her anyway and was well-aware of the risk of going down the tree:” I don’t give pears to the Witchey Witch, because she will take me and put me in the sac”. The Witch assured him:” I’m not who you believe I am, I swear I came here this morning, Petey Pete give me a pear, with your white hand!”.
Petey Pete got persuased, went down the tree and gave her a pear. So the Witchey Witch got him for the second time, she threw him in the sac and tied it very tight. Along the way, near the same bush she had to stop again to take a leak, but this time the knot was too tight for Petey Pete to break it and flee. So the kid started to do the quail and got the attention of a hunter with his dog, who found the sac and opened it. Pete jumped outside and plead the hunter to put the dog inside the sac in his place. When the Witch camed back and picked up the sac, the dog inside kept moving and barking, so the Witch said:” Petey Pete, the only things you can do now are only jumping and barking like a dog”. She got at the door and called her daughter:” Big Daisy, come down and open the door. Prepare the cauldron to boil Petey Pete”, but when she emptied the sac the dog jumped out, bit her leg and run to the courtyard barking and biting every chicken he could bite.
“ Mother Oh Mother! Do you eat dogs?” said Big Daisy, and the Witch:” My darling light the fire again, I will be back soon.”
She changed her clothes once again with a red wig this time and got back to the pear-tree, so much she did so much she said that she accomplished to take Petey Pete another time. But this time she didn’t stop anywhere and brought the sac right back home where her daughter was waiting her:” Take it and close it in the coop, and tomorrow early, while I’m away, do it in stew with potatoes.”
The morning after, Big Daisy took a cutting board and a big knife and opened a crack in the cage:” Petey Pete do me a favour, put your head on this chopping board”. He answered:” How? Let me see”. So Big Daisy laid her neck on the cutting board and Petey Pete with the big knife cut off her head and put it to fry in a pan. The Witchey Witch came and exclaimed:” Big Daisy, my beautiful daughter, who put you in the pan?” “ It was me” said Pete from the chimney hood. “How did you get up there?” asked the Witch and Petey:” I put a pot on top of the other and I went up”. Then the Witchey Witch tried to make a ladder of pots to climb to catch him, but right before she could achieve that she broke on the pot, fell into the fire and burned to the last crumb.