{"id":1252,"date":"2014-12-05T17:02:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T16:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valdesina.it\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2018-09-30T11:43:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T09:43:29","slug":"prassuit-angrogna-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/2014\/12\/05\/prassuit-angrogna-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend: The dog of Prassuit – Angrogna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello guys, welcome back!
\nToday we are in a suburb of Angrogna, in Pellice Valley, formerly known as \u201cPreisuch\u201d, which is nowadays known as \u201cPrassuit\u201d, a name that means “dry meadow” because in the whole area there are no water sources (which once made irrigating fields impossible!).
\n\u2026this story, however, talks about something else, and I suggest you to stay very very close to Mom and Dad while reading it, \u2018cause it’s really scary!<\/p>\n

The story I\u2019m about to tell you did not happen exactly here, but near Angrogna, in a place called \u201cSan Lorenzo\u201d. It is said that a man (who was passing by one night), found himself in front of a fearsome beast: a long-haired wolf with eyes that seemed on fire\u2026 just imagine what a fear!<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The dry meadows that give the name to the hamlet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The beast tried to scare the man and snarled at him, but he pulled out the small sword that once people used to keep under the cape (as a weapon of defense) and he wounded the beast at one of the front legs.
\nThe wolf then fled howling in pain and the man managed to escape…<\/p>\n

\"In<\/a>
In one of these houses someone hides a secret…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The day after, however, rumours told that a man, who lived right here at Prassuit, became seriously ill because of a mysterious wound in the arm, most probably caused by a blade.
\nWhen it turned out about the bad adventure the brave man had lived the night before, everyone understood what the truth was: the man from Prassuit was actually a werewolf who had come out in the night to mistreat and scare people passing round there!<\/p>\n

\"Hey,<\/a>
Hey, little dog … You knew this legend?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2026what is a werewolf? In legends of Waldensian Valleys he is usually a man who has the power to transform himself into a wolf, and he is called \u201cloup ravat\u201d (perhaps from the Latin word “rapax”, which means \u201crapacious\u201d – referring to a predator); he is then a kind of witch doctor, and the word does not refer to the character of today\u2019s horror stories, in which a werewolf is a man that turns to a beast at every full moon.
\nThe story does not tell us what happened therefore to the man-wolf, but I like to think that, after being discovered, he simply decided not to annoy any more inhabitants of the land!<\/p>\n

How to get here:<\/strong>
\nreach the village of San Lorenzo, capital of Angrogna (Turin). Once in town, take the road on your right and follow signs to Vaccera; after 1.5 km you will arrive at the Prassuit hamlet.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello guys, welcome back! Today we are in a suburb of Angrogna, in Pellice Valley, formerly known as \u201cPreisuch\u201d, which is nowadays known as \u201cPrassuit\u201d, a name that means “dry meadow” because in the whole area there are no water sources (which once made irrigating fields impossible!). \u2026this story, however, talks about something else, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,94,350,251,35,351],"tema":[],"area":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senza-categoria-en","tag-angrogna-en","tag-legend","tag-prassuit-en","tag-valdesi-en","tag-waldesians","tag-werewolf"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/prassuit_1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}