And so the ship untied and left for Milna.
Some Sutivaners laughed, some were left surprised, some might have gotten a little angry because what’s so funny about that. A few people admiring the view of the Sutivan bell tower saw a cat running on the balustrade circling the bell and peeking over the edge faster and faster and soon all the ship was looking at this peculiar sight and then someone (somewhat mockingly) shouted : “Sutivaners! There is a cat in your bell tower!”Īs the Sutivaners arriving on that ship and the others waiting for them on the bridge didn’t know themselves what was that cat doing on the bell tower, they were left slightly off guard which made the rest of the passengers all the happier and they proceeded to shout and laugh:”A cat in the bell tower! Hahahaha! Sutivaners, there is a cat in your bell tower!” Arriving at the location of the big bells it peeks (now being considerably hungry) through the balustrade but realizes that it doesn’t know which side the octopus is going to come from so it jumps on top and circles the bell tower to spot it on time.Ĭhance would have it that at that very moment the “steamboat“ (a ship which no longer runs on steam but our people still call it that) which ran on the Split – Sutivan – Milna line was docking into the Sutivan harbour. The cat was dumbfounded by the octopus’s reaction and it feared that it would lose this surprise meal but since cats are especially smart creatures when taking care of their meals, the cat slips through the bell tower door, scaring the parish priest in the vestry in the process and climbs the bell tower stairs to ambush the octopus. In any case, you don’t mess around with such a cat and our terrified octopus knew that so it started climbing the nearest wall (since octopuses are excellent climbers) and that very wall belonged to our slender bell tower. “Cat of the port“ is a special kind of cat which gained its vast survival experience in the most dynamic part of the town where various things can befall a cat while developing great partiality for seafood which it would often times steal from the fishermen’s baskets! And so, half the way to being safe from becoming a nice fisherman’s lunch it slid down the pebbled alley towards the sea but immediately stopped in its tracks, for a cat blocked its path! Not just any cat, but a real “cat of the port“! Meanwhile, the octopus, who is a genuine “specialist of the sea“, removed the weighted lid off the pot, sneaked out of the kitchen and headed straight back for the sea since an octopus always knows where the sea is regardless of its location in the world. The fisherman went to the fish market to see how others fared and the wife put the lid over the octopus in a big pot and hurried to the store to get onions, and as everybody knows, there is no real sauce without onions.
Nothing wrong with that, some prefer octopus over fish and so did our fisherman so he returned to the port happy and brought his catch back to his wife in the small stone house near the church to prepare the way only she knows how. There was a man fishing, but instead of fish he pulled an octopus out of the sea. That is usually followed by an add-on “ Neither is an octopus a fish, nor is a person from Brač a human!“ but we will forget about that for now and remember the octopus which is important to our story about the “cat“.īut what do the cat and the octopus have to do with Sutivan and Sutivan’s beautiful bell tower? Here’s how the story goes:
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