{"id":1395,"date":"2015-04-24T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valdesina.it\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2017-01-23T19:12:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T18:12:49","slug":"vengie-leggenda-angrogna-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/2015\/04\/24\/vengie-leggenda-angrogna-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend: the sorcerers of Vengie – Angrogna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi there!
\nToday we are back in Angrogna, in Pellice Valley \u00a0(Turin), for a history of witches and fairies … Are you ready for that? We are on the banks of the Vengie<\/span> <\/a>(a stream I already told you about a long time ago), where it is said that once inhabitants round here were awakened at night by terrible noises. No one ever dared to exit their home to see what it was, except for a young guy…<\/p>\n

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Behind me there is the Vengie: now everything seems quiet and calm\u2026 but just imagine how scary were those nights, with all of those sorcerers around!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Along the Vengie, the young man saw a group of \u201cmascoun\u201d (sorcerers) trying to dig a culvert to divert the waters of the Angrogna river in order to make the inhabitants of the whole valley die of thirst. The head of the sorcerers was so strong that he could wield an entire old oak tree as if it were an axe! Meanwhile, the fairies who used to live in the nearby rocks were trying in all the possible ways to dissuade them from going on with their evil plans.<\/p>\n

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Here are the rocks carved by witch doctors to build the canal…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The land, however, collapsed and caved in, making the work of sorcerers slower. The witch doctors then proposed to the young boy a terrible deal: if people from Angrogna had offered three lives as a sacrifice necessary to complete the channel, the sorcerers would give them incredible riches. The young boy immediately (and foolishly) offered himself, and his brother (who had meanwhile reached him) did the same. But all of the other inhabitants were reasonably frightened and hesitant…<\/p>\n

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Ouch! If I look down to see the river, I almost feel dizzy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally the inhabitants paid attention to the fairies, who revealed the sorcerers\u2019 evil plans and unmasked their deception, forcing them to give up the construction of the canal that would bring them only drought and misery, and no richness at all! \u2026but you have to know that, even if the works stopped that night, a piece of the channel still exists, and that\u2019s the Guieiza d\u2019la Tana<\/span><\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Behind me you can see the rocks through which you can enter the \u201cGuieiza d\u2019la Tana\u201d … Do you remember when we went inside there?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How to\u00a0get\u00a0here:<\/b>
\nfrom\u00a0Provincial\u00a0Road 161,\u00a0between\u00a0Torre Pellice and Luserna San Giovanni,\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0roundabout\u00a0take the road to Angrogna.\u00a0Follow\u00a0the road and\u00a0you\u2019ll\u00a0get\u00a0to the\u00a0main\u00a0<\/i>square\u00a0of San Lorenzo<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0then\u00a0continue for\u00a0about\u00a0800 m and\u00a0you\u00a0will\u00a0find\u00a0on the right the\u00a0sign\u00a0\u201cTorrente\u00a0Vengie<\/span><\/a>\u00a0e\u00a0Roccha\u00a0Filera<\/span><\/a>\u201d.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0If\u00a0you\u00a0want<\/i>, continue to the\u00a0hamlet\u00a0of Serre, turn right\u00a0until\u00a0the\u00a0beginning\u00a0of the\u00a0trail\u00a0with\u00a0signs\u00a0\u201cChanforan<\/span><\/a>\u201d and \u201cOdin\u201d and\u00a0<\/i>continue the\u00a0walk\u00a0up to the\u00a0panels\u00a0showing\u00a0the\u00a0Guieiza<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0then\u00a0go down the\u00a0stone\u00a0steps\u00a0and…\u00a0sneak\u00a0underground!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi there! Today we are back in Angrogna, in Pellice Valley \u00a0(Turin), for a history of witches and fairies … Are you ready for that? We are on the banks of the Vengie (a stream I already told you about a long time ago), where it is said that once inhabitants round here were awakened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,92,151,152,368,438,641,409,642,63,29,411,103],"tema":[],"area":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senza-categoria-en","tag-angrogna","tag-fairies","tag-guieiza-dla-tana","tag-guieiza-dla-tana-en","tag-pellice-valley","tag-rock","tag-serre-di-angrogna","tag-serre-di-angrogna-en","tag-sorcerers","tag-val-dangrogna","tag-vengie","tag-vengie-creek","tag-witches"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/vengie_3_ok.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","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=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valdesina.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}