The so-called "nina-witch" of Liguria was just over 13 years old when she died.It is not known with certainty what was the cause of her death, but what archaeologists intuit is that l The community of which this teenager is a part, in fifteenth-century Italy, I was afraid of . Very afraid.
The way in which She was buried and the heavy stone covering her deathbed, has made experts intuit that this girl must have tremendously something special while terrifying, so that theirs would give her that kind of burial, and more in a holy area and strategic within the beautiful city of Liguria.
Another unique fact to keep in mind is that the news about the discovery of the so-called "nina-witch" happened in 2014, but last year a second body of the same period was found. Another girl, but whose story and ending seems to be somewhat darker.
We tell you both stories.Two stories even with many The empty spaces that experts try to fill with scientific and historical evidence.Two «girls-witch», girls you reject for yours, whose sorrows and hardships we can only guess.
The mysterious tomb of the «girl-witch »From Italy
The Pontifical Archeology Institute team, led by researcher Stefano Roascio, tells us that it is a very unusual burial. We are in Albenga, in the Italian region of Liguria , here where a first body was found in 2014.It was that of a 13-year-old girl whose remains were face down, with her head stuck to the floor so that her mouth was in contact with the earth.
Anthropologists tell us that this way of burying people had a very specific purpose: to prevent that person's soul from clouding the world of the living.He was "an impure soul." The researchers were very surprised because these types of burials are seen a lot in Bulgaria or in that E Eastern Europe, where people who were considered sorcerers or vampires were similarly buried:
- Face down.
- With stones or bricks in their mouths.
- Beheaded.
- Nestled in the ground with irons or stakes.
The majority of these findings had adult bodies as protagonists , both of men or women who had been rejected by their neighbors to the point of killing them and then put into practice those rites with which to protect the community. Mal should be contained, the soul of that "being" should be clinging to the body following specific practices.
Now... what had that girl done to be considered evil? The first analysis of the rest of the girl revealed several things.The first was her age, between 12 and 13 a The second one, which suffered from a very strong anemia. Porotic hyperostosis in the skull showed that it suffered from a serious disease, because of which hemorrhages should be very common.we add the pale and feverish aspect, this undoubtedly explains that his people were afraid of him, that his physical image could cause restlessness, fear and rejection.They considered her a “witch” or even, why not ?, a vampire.This can still be demonstrated, just be intuited.
We were in the fifteenth century, a time of obscurantism in which the word" witchcraft "ran arbitrarily through those closed minds , endowed with a religious radicalism where any unusual shade, even the disease, was quickly prosecuted as a diabolic.
The Ligurian girl-witch was in ca mposanto, very close to the church of Martir San Calocero, abandoned more than 500 years ago.Now, if this fact already seems so sad to us as shocking, it is even better to know that only a year later, near this interment I find another body. She was a second girl somewhat older than the first, about 17 years old .Her body was worse conditions because it had been burned.The orientation of her remains responded to the same position as the girl-witch, that is, face down.
It is known that she was burned alive and later buried with stones on his body.We are, again, before an act of punishment, before a violent practice against those women accused of unjustly and cruelly witchcraft.
At the moment it is unknown if these two young women had any links, in fact neither It has been concluded if they shared the same temporary moment or if there is a distance of some decades between them.However , there is no lack of speculation that they might be sisters .We will be awaiting new information to share with you about girls-witch of Liguria.
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