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Stories that are told in Lunigiana

(Lunigiana)
Genre: folklore   

Lunigiana is a land between Liguria and Tuscany and full of old stories. For example, there is the legend of the werewolf of Pontremoli. He goes out at night with the Full Moon and his gang of stray dogs. To escape it, you don't have to look it in the eye, and you have to climb at least more than 3 steps. The castle of Fosdinovo, on the other hand, seems to be inhabited by a ghost. It is the spirit of the unfortunate marquis Biancamaria Aloisia Malaspina, who was locked up by her parents in the dungeons for not having accepted to become a nun. Three bells full of gold and precious items seem to hide in the woods of Sassalbo, the result of a theft that ended badly. The men who had robbed the villa of a rich lord in fact sank into the ground with their booty. No better fate is that of the poor peasant from Malgrate, who was locked in a coffin, believed dead, but then found with bloody hands. He died twice, the second of fear, and his ghost roams the cemetery. The bridge of noises, between Zeri and Pontremoli, is finally called this way because of the possessed man who still slams the chains on the bottom of the gully, since he cannot die.

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