{"id":1276,"date":"2015-01-02T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valdesina.it\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2018-09-29T14:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T12:52:48","slug":"bial-da-diaou-perrero-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/2015\/01\/02\/bial-da-diaou-perrero-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend: Bi\u00e2l d\u00e2 Diaou \u2013 Perrero"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Germanasca Valley, going towards Massello, you can see an ancient root canal on a rockface on your left. This structure is called bi\u00e2l d\u00e2 Diaou, literally \u201cDevil’s canal\u201d, and this legend explains why.<\/p>\n

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Can you see the ruins of the root canal behind me on the rockface?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A man had three daughters and, when he had to divide up his goods, the most beautiful of them received the Bess\u00e8 hamlet (lou B\u00ebss\u00e8). At that time, this hamlet was just a little more than a farmhouse, and, because of its position, it was surrounded by rye fields, really poor because there wasn’t any way to properly irrigate them. If you needed to carry some water you had to climb down the precipitous bank of the Germanasca river, risking to take a bad tumble.
\nThe peasant decided to build a canal which could permit to take the water until Bess\u00e8, and commited it to expert workers. These ones worked hardly for days and days, but almost at the end of the job they encountered a precipitous rockface, which was almost impossible to scratch and which forced them to stop and leave the job half done. The peasant didn’t want to give up, and so decided to consult a fairy.<\/p>\n

At midnight he met her and she, listened the story, started to walk up and down the room mumbling strange magic formulas. Suddendly, and with great astonishing for the peasant, the devil in person appeared! \u00abWhat do you want?\u00bb said the devil. \u00abCould you complete the water canal, which these peasants can\u2019t do?\u00bb asked the fairy. \u00abYes, I can do it \u2013 answered the devil \u2013 but at the and of this work the beautiful heiress of the Bess\u00e8 will be mine!\u00bb. \u00abOk \u2013 agreed the fairy \u2013 but you have to complete the job in a week, within Sunday morning, before the cock-crow\u00bb.<\/p>\n

\"Imagine<\/a>
Imagine how difficult could be build something on a so precipitous rockface!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The father of the heiress, scared to death, flared up at the fairy. because she had promised to the devil his beautiful daughter. But the fairy told him to not be worried… she had already arranged a plan!
\nThe devil worked hardly during the whole week, and Saturday night his job was almost done. A few hours before the daybreak, when there was anything but some rocks to remove before the water could flow, the fairy got into the henhouse with a lantern. The light, even it wasn’t the Sun’s one, woke up the rooster, which began to crow at the top of his voice.
\nThe devil heard the cock-crow just when his job was almost at its completion, and he got so angry that he throwed himself into the Germanasca river and never came back.<\/p>\n

\"Look,<\/a>
Look, here\u2019s where the devil throwed himself, blinded by fury.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How to get here<\/strong>
\nFrom Pinerolo go towars Perosa Argentina. From there turn in the direction of Perrero. At the crossroad to Prali take the road on the right towards Massello\/Salza. Go on for 2.5 Kms on this road and at your right you\u2019ll see the root canal.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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