Why do not live a real night of Halloween in the Triora’s country witches?
November 1, 2009 by Anna Merulla / Tags: castagnaccio , halloween , Triora , witches / 0 Comments
In this country in the 1587 there was a trial of the innocent people. All the matter burst out due to a famine that had lasted for over two years. During a special session of the national Parliament of Triora (note: Triora of that time was part of comunal states with their own Parliamet) of that time, meeting in the central square. Suddenly someone from the crowd (which was attending that trial), blamed for the famine occurrences some women that were meeting at nighttimes in a place called the, “Cabotina”. They all, were accused of witchcraft (infanticide, carnal coupling with the devil, to cause storms that ruined the crop, to transform themselves into cats so that they could sneak into houses, to prepare poisonous potions, etc …).
In the very end, a total of three hundred women were accused and interrogated. Fifty of them were tortured and during that torturing some of them died. Today, the witches’ records of theirs confessions are exposed in the Trora museum.
As I was telling you the evening we arrived in the village of Triora, where we found a place to stay for the night. It was a small hotel on the little town’s outskirts. Everything in there, the alleys, the stairways, the crests on porches were emanating a scent of fresh air. Right that moment, the all picture was giving us a magical atmosphere.
The town’s old houses are made of stone with slated roofs. They looked to me magnificent and a bit ghostly at the same time. While I was passing through the narrow town’s streets, I felt shivers when I was looking at the houses’ wall metal railings, because of them used to be jails.There I found in every corner of the town lanterns, pumpkins and masked people who tempted us in following them throughout the town’s little squares where we found performances done by local folk groups, music, foods and a lot of diabolical and scary jokes.
The evening spend on Triora, we had a great fun. The all day ended when we had a nice hot chocolate and a piece of castagnaccio. Castagnaccio is a typical sweet made of chestnut flour, raisins, pine nuts and fennel seeds … It was the right sweet on a cold night of fear!
In this country there are many interesting events. There among them are the Motorcycle Rally and the “Weekend in yellow”.
I find that the “Weekend in yellow” in Triora is very funny! This initiative says:“Weekend in yellow in the enchanting and mysterious village of Triora. You will be charmed by the atmosphere, but then a murder will forever change the destiny of your weekend … An ancient village full of history at the heart of magical hinterland of Liguria, its peace shattered by a horrible crime “… soon I will also participate to this initiative and I will tell you more …
