Margherita Guglielmina, the Gatina, the last witch killed in Italy

On January 22, 1828, a woman was killed by a witch in Cervarolo , a small town in Italian Piedmont.With her death, the witch hunt In Italy, which as in all of Europe, instigated by the Church and especially by the Inquisition, ended the lives of numerous people completely innocent .This is the story of Margherita Guglielmina, nicknamed the Gatina, the last witch killed in Italy.

Margherita Guglielmina, the Gatina, the last witch killed in Italy

Margherita Guglielmina lived in the village of Cervarolo , which in 1828 had about 1,200 inhabitants dedicated to the traditional tasks of the villages of the Alps.It was a quiet place, where nothing special ever happened, until the tragic death of Margherita.

La Gatina was a 64-year-old widow who lived in a house she owned, with her sick daughter, outside flush with the population, according to the contemporary writer Giuseppe Lana, Mrs.Guglielmina was a tall woman , with her face deformed by strange dark bulges , with deep wrinkles s around the eyelids and with a strong and serious voice .To this «special» physicist we had to add a malicious and irascible character For all this the children of the place began to call her a witch and run away and hide when they crossed her.Little by little the idea that she was a witch was making a dent among her neighbors.

Margherita Guglielmina, the Gatina, the last witch killed in Italy

The episode that culminated in his death began a few months earlier and involved two men who cut a walnut that was planted in a land that belonged to the woman.a, who had a bad temper, threatened the two men and prophesied his death shortly.Unfortunately, one of them died shortly thereafter and the other was about to do so From this ominous coincidence, fear seized the inhabitants of Cervarolo who considered proven to be a witch .Inflamed his imagination for all the stories that crossed Europe, they feared that "the witch" would return to act and end with other people in the town.There was a meeting in a tavern and two men were appointed, related to those who had allegedly been cursed, to end Margherita .

Margherita Guglielmina, the Gatina, the last witch killed in Italy

Giovanni Antonio Degaudenzi and Gaudencio Folghera went to the house of the Gatina ready to "do justice." They arrived at the c asa, locked her daughter in a room on the first floor, and made her go out into the yard by hitting her with a stick brutally until she was killed .Then fled .Although all the people knew who were to blame, they escaped and were tried in absentia.Their sentences were ridiculous: 7 and 10 years in prison , being amnestied three years later.

Margherita Guglielmina, the Gatina, the last witch killed in Italy

This event in the Piedmont was the last recorded in Italy in which a woman was accused and murdered for being considered a witch .In 2005 a plaque in the area in memory of the Gatina and all the women who died simply by picking herbs in the mountains, having warts, being independent and many other reasons why in other Times any woman could be considered a witch.

Images: June Yarham, Roland Scheerer

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