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THE MALES - Short history of witches in Piedmont

The term "male" and a Piedmontese dialect word indicating the "witch" was very common in the Langhe and the Canavese.
The "masks", according to popular belief, is in possession of natural abilities and work incatesimi, removes or directs bills, medical uses and inherits the knowledge of the strange powers by matrilineal mother or grandmother. In addition to the powers inherited by mouth, the witch also inherits the "Book of Command", where with inks of various colors are shown formulas and spells. In the collective
Piedmont, the "witches" have an unpleasant face, rough skin and dark, a low forehead and excavated from different lines. In short, the true image of the wicked witch of fairy tales when we were kids. Nothing to do with the grim but fascinating Snow White's stepmother.
Despite the power of autosuggestion now typical of popular thought, has been weakened over time with the expansion of the city and industrial developments, Piedmont prejudices still widely used and counter-charms.
Witches unfortunately they belonged only to the imagination and also the Piedmont has its sad reality tied to witchcraft trials. The image of the crimes truly unreasonable or born from the imagination of judges and courts of the Church, led to a sort of exaltation and expansion processes which in turn involve whole countries. The woman accused of witchcraft was dressed in a white coat and carried in procession to the place of execution.
A 1474 document found among the papers of accounts of Valperga Rivara, informs us that September 23, 1472, were burned in furnace Rivara three local women, we know only that they were three sisters. Another document always 1474, but back up to 55 charges facing four women Levone: Antonia De Alberto, Francesca Viglone, Bonaveri Viglone Margarota Bray and which managed to escape and to avoid burning. A
Pollenzo, it still tells the legend of the witch Micilina. The year is 1544 and Micaela Angiolina Damasius, called Micilina, advances degraded to the harassment suffered in the crowd. The poor girl was accused of witchcraft and condemned to the stake, was brought on a cart pulled by two white oxen, on top of a barren hill and tied to an old chestnut. But the legend has it that the woman freed from the gag wrapped in flames, scream a curse to the people who looked astonished: "Damn! Will not be the flames to free myself, be a terrible war that will exterminate that will end only when these two white horse will come back. " Then we heard a tremendous roar and the two oxen that had driven her here from whites who were becoming red as fire and dashed into the crowd crazy screaming. Even today on that hill you can see some strange red spots on the ground are said to be the blood of the poor Micilina.
But another legend to enrich the cultural population of Piedmont, that of Masca lame enemy of lovers. In Villafranca, he said that in the woods beside the country, the couples of young lovers disappear. The bodies of lovers, were found days later drowned in Po seems that a witch had happened in the village and at night reached the secluded couples first form of cat and then in the likeness of a comely young girl who seduces a man drawn into 'young people both water until they drown. But one evening a tough guy decided to eliminate the Witch and privately with his girlfriend. Just we saw before the pretty girl in which the witch had turned, tried not to be enchanted and encouraged by his girlfriend took a big stick and beat strong against the witch who retrieved the actual appearance disappeared into a spiral of black smoke. Even today in Villafranca when someone tries to hinder a love story is told: "May you limp!"

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TORINO MAGICA (Part 3)

stands on a street in central Turin, Via San Carlo in the past until 1849, when the City Council decided to dedicate it to Vittorio Alfieri that lived there, remembered with a plaque on the facade of his house, the first right coming from the Piazza San Carlo. Palace Cheats Levaldigi, always associated with evil traditions, is an imposing building erected in 1673 to designs by Amedeo Castellamonte. Tricks was a politician with many positions, including that of Minister of Finance, Count of San Michele Mondovi, and baron of Levaldigi general, a princely villa by himself costruita.Il door is beautifully carved in wood, decorated with fruit , flowers, cupids and various simbologie.Quel the most fascinating is the dong in the center of the leaves always perfectly polished, showing the grinning Devil che scruta i passanti.Difficilmente si può dare una motivazione del perché sia ora conosciuto come “Il palazzo della porta del diavolo”, se non per il batacchio, anche se i battenti del portone si spalancano su un palazzo che trabocca di misteri e leggende che ormai si consolidano con il passar del tempo.Nell’anno 1790 nel palazzo, che appartenne per un breve periodo di tempo a Marianna Carolina di Savoia , fu preparata una festa durante il carnevale con orchestrali, danzatrici, artisti; al fondo di una sala era raffigurata una scena infernale, le danzatrici coperte di minuscoli abiti ballavano tra le fiamme, dimenandosi come invasate simboleggiando le anime dannate.Un ricevimento mondano upset by the cry of a dancer, that Emma Cochet, but some suggest the name of Vera Hertz, which slumped stab mortalmente.Le assumptions were many, however, the culprit was never identified, nor the weapon was never ritrovata.Scrisse Alberto Fenoglio, "Almost as a sign of disapproval of the sky for the crime, was unleashed on the city, although it was not the season, an impressive night storm when the rain poured down violently, lightning followed each other almost without interruption and the accompanying thunder the storm with a roar so loud that shook the whole palazzo.La tragedy had sent down a thin layer of frost, of sadness and even fear at all, but it exploded when the great fear was a blinding flash followed immediately by a tremendous roar, roar of broken glass, a breath of cold, violent, that swept the room and turned off all the lights, causing panic and a hurried flight of the guests. "It was not long that some" witnesses "saw a ghost walk, peering vanishing people and then disappear through the walls.

Another story cloaked in mystery Levaldigi the walls of the Palace, that the death of an officer during the French domination of 1917.E 'Fenoglio yet to tell the crime: "The biggest, named Du Perril Melchiorre, went Turn to the captain, touched in order to service safety to show him a note containing threats, just received, and ask for an escort that the "covering" protecting his person, as he was to travel with the documents prepared for top secret.Mentre a coach, he ate a quick breakfast. In the street, the coachman impatiently awaiting partire.Dopo was almost an hour to go down to see why the military attardasse.Sulle first told him to wait, because Du Perril was being prepared, then the two soldiers came to tell him that can not find it anywhere. "In the palace seems to be no. "You have not seen the case go to?" The coachman domandarono.Il stunned: "Certainly not, I would have noticed. "" About twenty years after quell'inspiegabile disappearance, some builders, during the execution of works in the building, knocking down a wall were found a cavity in the skeleton of a man tall and strong that he had been buried in feet and held by two low walls laterali.Il skull showed a clean break. It was envisaged the possibility of international intrigue, but it was too much time spent on the case could shed some light. It is said that one night a careless sorcerer's apprentice was not content to rely on the usual friendly spirits, but he went to call the lord of darkness, the devil Satana.Il, disturbed by the invocation, he decided to punish the responsible. In the morning, passersby found the entrance blocked by the heavy door of the building that had appeared out of nowhere, behind which the homeowner was hopelessly trapped. Popular beliefs or mysterious facts without an answer?

In any case, the fact remains that the "gates of Hell" has survived the test of time, wars and remains a work of art 's immense beauty, so that the newspaper, " USA Today, "in a service dedicated to Turin he published some fascinating images.