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Charm: Sass di Biss for @folktaleweek

My favourite piece. Inspired by my grandpa's homeland, is an old tale about a stone in the Forest.

Book: I Musicanti del SacroMonte

This is a Legend that I've discovered while searching for something fitting to the Book's Theme.

"While the cross (which today is located in the 13th chapel) was being erected amid great popular fervor, a select group of musicians appeared out of nowhere and accompanied the entire service with songs and hymns of extraordinary beauty. No one had ever seen them before, and since they magically disappeared again at the end of the service, it was always believed that those musicians were angels sent by the good God."

Rain: La Donna/Dama del Lago di Varese for @folktaleweek

Lake Varese, the current name for the ancient "Lake Guirà," has been continuously inhabited since prehistoric times. Several paranormal phenomena have been recorded on its shores, including a story of a supernatural female figure, a kind of mermaid, who inhabits the lakebed and rules the underwater world. This being is attracted to very young males, causing their death by drowning to possess their souls, through which she can renew her magical power over the waters. Of this "Lady of the Lake" (I call her this because the protagonists always refer to her as "the Lady," unintentionally giving her a sacred connotation), there are eight cases recorded between 1946 and 1961, all with the same modalities and identical visions. The locations are always the first and second points. The protagonists avoided speaking about it except as adults.

Also, it rains a lot in Varese.