Joke, pun, witticism. “Christmas packages in installments? No, with money in hand; but then there is no more vice; with money in hand you can find them in every corner” This is what Enrico Rosamani reported in his “Julian Vocabulary of the dialects spoken in the Julian-Dalmatian Region as it was established by mutual agreement between the two States involved in the Rapallo Conference of 12/11/1920”, published in 1958. Proverbs and sayings that were often modified in the various dialects of different influences, from Trieste to Pola, from Rovigno to Muggia, from Zara to Veglia. But the ultimate meaning remained the same. Folklore is not only a collection of beliefs and opinions to be examined...