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My Great Grandmother, the Amorgos Fairy
Istorima
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My Great Grandmother, the Amorgos Fairy

Who was the legendary fairy of Amorgos, who was magically caught and then married to the pirate, Yiorgos Kaoutsos? In one of the traditional legends of this Cycladic island, her great-grandson tells us her story

Interviewee: Antonis Roussos
Field Reporter: Efthymia Papagiannopoulou
Producer: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Designer: Alex Retsis
Sound Editor:Spyros Lymperopoulos
Video Director: Stefanos Bertakis
Voiceover: Yiannis Niarros


Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators, listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could be lost in time. It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and Empower Youth (see more on www.snf.org). More than 20,000 stories are gradually being published in full on www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos, or written stories on www.istorima.org.