It is said that in Palermo, around the year 1100 (period of the domination of the Moors in Sicily at Kalsa), he lived in a building a beautiful girl who loved to spend his days cure the flowers and plants of his balcony. One day, passing a young Moro for Kalsa, he saw the beautiful girl, intent on treating the plants, remained in love with it, decided to want her for himself, without delay he entered the girl’s house and declared her love. The girl, struck by so much feeling, spoke the love of the young man, but when he knew that the Moro would leave her to return to his lands in the East, where he waited for a wife with offspring, waited for the darkness and as soon as he fell asleep killed him, cut his head, made a Vase where he planted the basil and put him on display out in the balcon.