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Episode 62: Colobraro, Italy’s Most Cursed Village Photodump

Image 01: This haunted village of Italy is so cursed that locals don’t even say the name of their town aloud. If you do accidentally say the town’s name , you must immediately touch wood to diffuse any bad luck. Image 02 : Colobraro’s police don’t give speeding tickets on the village’s winding roads for fear that they will be cursed by the town. Image 03: The village is located on top of a mountain in a region plagued by ghost towns with macabre histories. Image 04: Residents pose with Colobraro’s most famed ( suspected ) witch - La Cattre. Image 05: Woodcut of a werewolf attack , 1512. Seems fine. Image 06-08 :Torre Del Lupomino - a 12th century building which translates to “Werewolf Tower” - is known in the region to be the ancestral home of a noble family rumored to be werewolves and known by “Lupis” WHICH MEANS WOLF!!! Image 09: The Lupis family shield has a wolf on it. Werewolves confirmed. Image 10: Malocchio or “bad eye” is a belief popular throughout southern Italy. According to the tradition, if someone is envious of you, their hateful gaze will curse you with bad luck!

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Sayitaliano Random Italian Answering - Question n.3, part 4: “Tell us about some Italian spooky urban legends” 

10 leggende metropolitane italiane (part 2)

Leggende metropolitane italiane parte seconda. Passiamo alle case infestate: oggi ci muoviamo tra la Liguria e l’Emilia Romagna. Vicino a Genova c’è La Ca’ delle Anime, un tempo gestita (sorry, I lost the camera lol) da una coppia di coniugi che uccideva e derubava i propri clienti per poi seppellirli nelle vicinanze; vicino a La Spezia, nella Casa del Violino, si può ancora udire il fantasma di un violinista morto suicida che suona il suo strumento; mentre Villa Magnoni, vicino a Ferrara, è un edificio abbandonato che nessuno vuole più esplorare: tutti quelli che l’hanno visitato sono poi morti in un incidente definito “casuale”.

Le farfalle dei morti: si dice, soprattutto in Sicilia, che le farfalle potrebbero non essere semplici insetti, ma essere una manifestazione delle anime dei morti di passaggio da un mondo all’altro. Per questo motivo, e perché porterebbe sfortuna, è assolutamente vietato calpestarle.

I Morkies: i Morkies sono delle creature simili a dei nani che infestano soprattutto i boschi del Trentino Alto Adige. Essi sono capaci di trasformarsi in radici e rami inquietanti che possono rendere difficile e pericoloso il passaggio degli escursionisti.

Il paese più sfortunato d’Italia si trova vicino a Matera. A Colobraro, viveva un gruppo di streghe, tra cui la famosa Cattre di cui abbiamo testimonianza. Per questo viene definito fin da prima della Seconda Guerra Mondiale il paese più sfortunato d’Italia (forse quello a cui si viene mandati quando ci viene detto “Ma vai a quel paese!”)

Per ultimo: la vecchina fantasma. Nel centro storico di Genova, ogni 5 anni appare una vecchina che cerca una via che purtroppo non esiste più. La prima apparizione di cui si ha notizia risale al 1989, quando questa vecchina fermò delle persone per chiedere loro, in dialetto genovese, dove si trovasse questa via. Arrivò addirittura a pagare un ragazzo con una moneta da 100 lire del 1943, per avere una risposta.

Vi sono piaciute queste leggende metropolitane dell’Italia? Fatemi sapere!

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ENG: Urban legends part two.

6- Let’s talk again about haunted houses: today we’re moving between Liguria and Emilia Romagna. Close to Genova there’s the House of the Souls, it has been once run by a couple of married people that used to kill and rob their clients, and then bury them near there; close to La Spezia, in the House of the Violin we can still hear the ghost of a suicidal violin player playing his instrument; while Villa Magnoni, near Ferrara, is an abandoned house that nobody wants to explore anymore: all those who have been there, have then died in a “casual” accident.

7- The butterflies of the deads: it’s a common saying that, especially in Sicily, butterflies might not be just insects but also a manifestation of the souls of the deads moving from a wolrd to the other. For this reason, and because it could bring bad luck, it’s severely forbidden to step on them.

8- Morkies. Morkies are creatures that look like dwarves especially haunting the forests in Trentino Alto Adige. They’re able to transform in roots or unsettling branches that can make difficult and dangerous the passage of the hikers.

9- The unluckiest Italian village can be found near Matera. In Colobraro, used to live many witches, included the famous Cattre, of which we have proof. For this reason it’s defined the unluckiest Italian village since before the start of WWII (maybe it’s the village to which we are all sent when we’re told to fuck off --literally:“but go to that village!”-- )

10- the little old ghost lady: in the historical center of Genova, every 5 years, a little old ghost lady appears, and search for an old street that doesn’t exist anymore. Her first apparition is dated in 1989, when this old lay stopped a few people to ask them, in Genova’s dialect, where this street was. She even gave a coin of the value of 100 lires dated 1943 to a guy to have a reply.

Did you like these Italian urban legends? Let me know!