This story of Sor Cassandro led to others of the same nature, but
without sufficient interest in the detail to put in print, though they
seemed to illustrate the fact that an imaginative people will rapidly
turn the most ordinary circumstances into a myth. For instance, one
concerned a family named Cocorni, who seem to have been nothing more
than successful grocers, the Twinings of Rome, and here is a specimen
of the language used about them:--'When his daughter was old enough
to marry, Cocorni would hear of no proposal for her. "No," said he;
"no one marries my daughter but he who comes in a carriage and four
to fetch her." And it really did happen that one came in a carriage
and four and took her away;' as if it were such a great matter that
it implied something supernatural.