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POINTS OF INTEREST
The Gioldzi puppet may also represents a doll who wants her mother’s milk but her mother is distracted by the carnival. To satisfy the urgent need of the doll the player in the ambiguous costume calls upon the young women to give a drop of milk (unu tikkirigheddu %u2018e latte) and thereby trying to lure them and touch their breasts.