Triora · The Witch Village of Italy

Triora, in the mountains of Liguria, is called “the witch village.” At the end of the sixteenth century a group of women here were accused of witchcraft, tried, imprisoned and executed; some were said to fly at night and to turn infants into other things.

The village still keeps a “witch house” and a wall on which people are said to have been burned. At the entrance stands a statue of a witch — put up later by the villagers themselves, as if in compensation for those names.

At night only a few lamps light the village lanes. Locals say you should not photograph that wall.

Folklore / Liguria · Italy / 1587