The Casinott

Characteristic of our lands, is the presence of many little houses – such as those present on Virgilian Route – made with wooden boards or masonry, and spread everywhere in the fields: the so called casinott. In those structures the peasant kept safe his tools, but they were also useful as shelter - when there was a summer storm – or as little space to rest when the sunshine beat down and only the cicadas' chirping broke the silence. Finally they were useful for escaping from bad people.
People that didn't have a vegetable garden near their house, provided for creating one in their field and they sowed potatoes and other vegetables, they planted tomatoes and sometimes also watermelons and melons.
Even at those times, somebody believed that it was more practical and cheaper to have easily reached fresh vegetables and go to the fields to collect them instead of going to shops and buy them: for this reason peasants stayed in the casinott also at night.
As common folk custom, after the peasant had closed the door, he didn't brought with him the key (because it was big and bulky) but he hid it in one of the wall or boards' cracks.