ouch, sorry, misread that - yeah, I wonder about all the "txting" that goes on during a quiz.

Legend has it Tintoretto's daughter was duped by a witch to save the consecrated hosts she would get for ten days after the first sacrament (at Madonna dell'Orto) She eventually told her father as animals started to kneel where the hosts were hidden.

He lured the witch to the house, started beating her with a stick, she changed into a black cat (what else!) and disappeared at last in a cloud of smoke through the wall. The Hercules statue plugs the hole and is supposed to protect the inhabitants of the house.