Note 1 — SMALLER GHOST AND TREASURE STORIES AND FAMILY AND LOCAL TRADITIONS.
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There were two of the Colonna. One was Sciarra; I don’t know the name of the other. They were always fighting against the pope of their time.1 At last they took him and shut him up in a tower in the Campagna, and kept him there till they had starved him to death; and when the people found him afterwards, what do you think?—in his extremity he had gnawed off all the tips of his fingers.