pezinho da nossa senhora

Nos dias do início do povoamento nos princípios do século XV, várias pessoas passavam junto de um curso de água denominado Ribeira das Sete, quando avistaram a Virgem Nossa Senhora a pairar sobre a água, dizendo: "Estai atentos. Aqui próximo, no mar, há-de aparecer uma imagem minha". Ao dizer isto, Nossa Senhora colocou um pé na rocha basáltica de um dos lados da ribeira, desaparecendo em seguida e deixando a pegada marcada.

Quando o acontecimento foi divulgado pela localidade e seus arredores, as populações ficaram alvoraçadas. Muitas, apesar de cépticas, iam espreitar o mar para ver se avistavam alguma coisa. Ficaram então muito admiradas quando, passados alguns dias, deu à costa um caixote feito em madeira. Tinha vindo levado pelo mar, ficando depositado num poço de maré. Ao ser aberto, foi encontrada uma imagem, como havia sido predito: a de Nossa Senhora da Ajuda, esculpida em pedra.
by: Diogo e Gonçalo-Braga Portugal
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenda_do_Pezinho_de_Nossa_Senhora

Lenda do Galo de Barcelos

Há muito tempo atrás aconteceu um crime em Barcelos que preocupou os barcelenses por não saberem quem o cometera.
Um galego que estava a percorrer o Caminho Português até Santiago de Compostela e nunca foi visto por aqueles lados, tornou-se o suspeito número um. Demasiada coincidencia o crime acontecer quando ele lá passara. Foi imediatamente acusado e condenado à forca. No dia do julgamento o peregrino pediu a presença de um juiz e disse lhe “ É tão certo eu estar inocente, como certo é esse galo cantar quando me enforcarem. E apontou para um galo assado pronto a ser comido. No entanto quando o galego estava a ser enforcado, o galo voltou à vida, cantando alto bem à frente do juiz. Este, que não acreditava no que acabara de acontecer, correu até à forca e percebeu-se que, graças a um nó mal dado, o peregrino sobreviveu.

Marta Cardoso, Nº16, 11ºTD

TRIORA'S WITCHES Alice Olivieri

The story of this village started between 1587 and 1589 from a very macabre fact.
In that time poverty and lack of raw materials were great problems for the small city. After a short investigation by Girolamo del Pozzo, a priest, the origins of the calamities were found in some local women.
Accused of witchcraft, cannibalism towards children and being the cause of the pestilence in progress, thirty women were arrested, imprisoned in their own houses, transformed into prisons (the most famous is the house of Meggio, called “Ca’ de baggiure”). Then, they moved to a prison in Genoa. In Triora, of the famous witches, only the places remain. They became famous because they are considered their meeting points for example the fountain of Campomavùe.

Liguria's traditions: SANREMO IN FLOWER by Irene Schiavi

Sanremo in Flower is a parade of wagons in bloom, made by a dozen of town communities of the province of Imperia; it takes place in Sanremo, generally on the second Sunday of March.
The final prizes are:
• Three thousand euros for the best wagon;
• Two thousand euros for the second wagon;
• One thousand euros for the third wagon.

The last edition, named Goddess Flora's Party, took place in January 1904, but today it is known as the “ Way in bloom”.
Tourists for Liguria, Piedmont, Val d’Aosta, Lombardy, Tuscany Umbria and even from the French Riviera come there to take part in the event.
The wagons are adorned and decorated with floral sculptures through the city streets of Sanremo; they are now very famous and the manifestation is taken every year.
I didn’t know about this event and now I’m curious to see it, especially for the flowery wagons.

“An embrace and the world is best!” Alice Levratto

Antony Cymerys is better known as Joe the Barber. For carity he has been busy for 25 years to cut the hair to homeless in exchange of simple hugs. Hugs are free and they allow people, also if they are unknown, to meet eachother. On Wednesdays you can meet him on the benches of Bushell Park, still busy at doing some good actions and working free for homeless waiting for a haircut. The slogan of Joe the Barber is: “A hug and the world is best!”

THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN TREE (Chiara Guastalli)

THE LEGEND OF BERGEGGI ISLAND by Noemi Cobelli

DRAGON OF SAN FRUTTUOSO BAY ( By Elisa and Samuele)

The bewitched cats of Ellera

In Ellera there is a cave which has always been inhabited by witches . These are beautiful women, with long hair and pointed ears; they have a good relationship with the inhabitants of the place. They show the way if you are lost, they heal the sick children, they turn milk sour for making cheese and if a storm is approaching they blow wind away. When Napoleon's soldiers invaded the dominions they caught some of them dancing naked in a field. The drunk French soldiers raped them . The witched turned into big wild cats with a woman face. When the French soldiers were sent away, the cats became women again but some were pregnant and they gave birth to basilisks who are said to still live at the bottom of the cave.

THE LEGEND OF THE OLD WOMAN OF VICO DEI LIBRAI (Matilde Barbero)

The legend tells that the spectrum of an old woman gets around in the historic centre of Genoa. She wears old clothes, she gets around the narrow alleys of the city and she usually asks information in a strange dialect about Vico Dei Librai to the people that she meets. She says that she got lost and she doesn’t find the way to return home.
A lot of people say that she asked them this information but, during the conversation, she disappeared into nothingness.
In Genoa there are a lot of alleys and it’s very easy to get lost like the old woman; but the strange thing is that Vico Dei Librai, the destination of the old woman, doesn’t exist since the Second World War, when Germans bombed the city.
So when you stroll in the historic centre of Genoa, pay attention! You can meet a ghost…

The legend of the path of the Golden Tree, Michela Cimino

Once upon a time, before much of the city was built, there were woods, vegetable gardens and orchards cultivated by peasants. Most of these lands were owned by a man, whose only job was to administer his possessions. But he did it very badly, waste a lot of money, but above all he loved playing cards and dice. For him this was supposed to be a way to make more money quickly and effortlessly. But one day came when the man lost all his assets to the game.
Desperate decided to play cards the last thing he had left, a small laurel tree. Strangely, from that moment on he began to win and quickly recovered all his belongings. In this way he was finally able to understand the important values ​​of life and since then he stopped behaving in that way.

Witches' legends

In this site we find the legends of the oldest Portuguese witches.
http://www.lendarium.org/new_category/9/

The cicada and the ant (By Elisa)

The Legend of the Ghost Pilgrim

A priest felt a great love for a nun belonging to the convent of San Pelayo, located in San Paio de Antealtares.

In order to be able to be alone with her, the priest walked every night a narrow secret passage located under Plaza de Quintana. Fruit of love, he proposed to the nun to meet at midnight of the next day in the Plaza de Quintana to elope together, and thus start a new life.

The priest went to the appointment dressed in a tunic of the pilgrims in order not to raise suspicion. Unfortunately, his beloved nun never appeared. Since then, it is said that the priest goes night after night to the square to wait for his nun...

By (GL) Jose

"The Two Marías"

This is the name by which these two sisters are known and became popular characters of the city. They used to take their walks in an hour of completion that was at two in the afternoon exactly and this gave name to their nickname.
It was an hour when the majority of students went out and the two of them called them out for their unique make-up and their way of dressing as execentrics, while they flirted with the university students.
Today they have a sculpture located in the Alameda Park in Santiago de Compostela.

“The two Marías”

This is the name by which these two sisters are known and became popular characters of the city. They used to take their walks in an hour of completion that was at two in the afternoon exactly and this gave name to their nickname.
It was an hour when the majority of students went out and the two of them called them out for their unique make-up and their way of dressing as execentrics, while they flirted with the university students.
Today they have a sculpture located in the Alameda Park in Santiago de Compostela.
By (GL) Teresa

Meiga chuchona

In Galicia, the legend tells that there are witches, witches who suck the kids blood and steal the child's fat, causing health deterioration on the most young, even causing the kid´s death. They can take different physical forms such as flys, bumblebees, owls.
To avoid the witch appearance you have to put a indian chestnut, a garlic clove, a piece of “San Xoán” grass and keep watching your child all night. If you catch the witch you have to hit her with a branch of laurel and say “San Silvestre, meiga fora”.

By (GL) Marcos

Liguria's tradition: THE PROCESSION OF THE GOOD FRIDAY

The procession of the Good Friday in Savona is a celebration of the cristian tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages . At this event, which is celebrated every two years, there are a lot of tourists and inhabitants of the city. It consists in a parade with some religious statues. Many years ago, the procession moved through the small narrow alleys, while now takes place in the large and important streets of Savona. This event is organized by the six confraternities of Savona and it is one of the most important religious rites and traditions in Liguria.
Vanessa Gaggero

The Fountain of the Idol

The Idol Fountain is a Roman monument in Braga, in the North of Portugal.
When Braga was still called Bracara Augusta, the Idol Fountain was a sanctuary dedicated to the god Tongoenabiago, associated with the waterways. It is believed to have been built in the 1s century after christ.
and ordered constructed by Celicus Fronto. The fountain is a large granite surface. Near an inscription is a figure dressed in a toga. On the water fountain is another sculptured figure, a bust with a classic profile.
There are indications that this shrine may have belonged to part of a temple. However, it is a monument full of mystery, because it reveals the worship of an indigenous god by the Romans, known for their religious tolerance.

Citânia de Briteiros

The Citânia de Briteiros is an archaeological site of the Castro culture located in the Portuguese civil parish of Briteiros São Salvador e Briteiros Santa Leocádia in the municipality of Guimarães; important for its size, "urban" form and developed architecture, it is one of the more excavated sites in northwestern Iberian Peninsula. Although primarily known as the remains of an Iron Age proto-urban hill fort (or oppidum), the excavations at the site have revealed evidence of sequential settlement, extending from the Bronze to Middle Ages.

Lenda Os Xaníns

Lidia (Ponferrada)

O MONTE MEDULIO

AS SETE IRMÁS PEREGRINAS PERDIDAS NO BIERZO. Ainhoa Serrano IES Virgen de la Encina

LENDA CARUCEDO E AS MÉDULAS POR LOLA PRADA, IES VIRGEN DE LA ENCINA, PONFERRADA.

Italian Masks