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Just outside the village is a miserable little country house, the "cabotina". It immediately exudes a special, mysterious charm to the visitor. Will it be those stones, now almost completely enveloped by creepers, that exude mystery? Or will it be what popular legend has handed down? It is said that the "Cabotina" was the meeting place of the alleged witches of the 1587 trial. Two years of ruthless trial. More than thirty women prosecuted. Battistina, Franceschina, Giovanninetta, and above all Franchina, the true heroine of this story, who was able to resist the atrocious torture but prove her innocence. Lucky, compared to the fourteen women who perished either in prison or under torture during the trial. In fact, we do not even know if the others were ever released, declared innocent, although everything suggests that this was the case. Two years of terrible atrocities, due to the inquisitorial fury of one man, commissioner Scribani, delegated by the Republic of Genoa to prepare and conduct the investigation. Until the Republic itself, and even the Holy Office from Rome, dismissed him, bringing peace to the village of Triora, but leaving in memory one of the most important witchcraft trials in post-Tridentine Italy. In fact, it was between the end of the 16th century and the 17th century that the phenomenon of witchcraft trials became most widespread, and not in the Middle Ages, as is mistakenly believed. A phenomenon that was culturally vast, so much so that it crossed the ocean, as is known for the trial of Salem, in Massachusetts in America, which was still an English colony. In Italy, at the beginning of the century that ended with the trial of Triora, the tragic events of Val Camonica took place, with about 70 fires lit.

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