TRIORA’S WITCHES ARE STILL ALIVE

For the women of Triora that meaning less plant, called the herb of Our Lady, represented a real panacea against any pain.

Today the witches of Triora don’t exist anymore, but only lots of memory’s of tells, there are ancient letters, report of evidence and trial records about tortures, sentences to death of four centuries ago. The witch in Triora was called bàgiua Thirty women, a young man and a wizard ended up in Genoa’s prison, because they were blamed of a long famine.

Passing by the roads of the old medieval village, you can still feel unexpected shivers; the iron bars of the houses in Via San Dalmazzo, turned into jails, appear to hear moans all around, which slowly become painful screams.

The costituto dei tormenti written by Franchetta Borelli witnesses the cruelty of the Extraordinary Commissary of the Republic of Genoa, Mr. Giulio Scribani, authentic spotlight chaser of the situation, distinguished in a frenetic witch hunting in all the territory of the ancient Podesteria of Triora .

In the Cabotina, house with gloomy aspects which has been always believed to be the witch’s house, during some foggy nights they seemed to hear guttural screams, whilst lights suddenly illuminated the area, giving it a sinister appearance.

The witches are not dead, they live, other than in gestures and in daily uses, between the walls, in the forests and in the springs of the magic and wonderful Argentina Valley.