Known as Sarantapichos or Patouchas, he was said to stand forty cubits tall. Once a man who loved deeply, he could only reunite with his beloved by transforming into a pine tree. This timeless legend from Ziria in Corinthia tells a story of unbreakable bonds between man and nature.
Narrator: Konstantinos Kourtzis
Researcher: Konstantina Christopoulou
Podcast by: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: Enes Ahmet Kehaya
Audio Editing: Yiannis Bezas
Istorima is the biggest project of recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. Over 1,000 young researchers find narrators, listen, collect and save stories of people from all over Greece : Stories of their place, stories of love, stories that changed us or defined us, stories modern or old. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could be lost in time. Istorima is the co-creation of the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of his Youth Reboot and Empowerment initiative (learn more at www.snf.org). The more than 20,000 stories are being published in their entirety in stages at www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos or written stories at www.istorima.org