Ir-Raġel tan-Nar (The Man of Fire): A Maltese Folktale
In the heart of rural Malta, far from the salt-stung coasts and bustling harbors, there lies a stretch of abandoned farmland where stone walls crumble and weeds choke the furrows once cut by careful hands. By day, the land appears merely neglected, sun-bleached soil, broken carob trees, and the faint
