Near Abbadia Isola, near Siena, the Montemaggio notorious for its martyrs, is the center of a dark story that, although it falls between the beginning of the century and the end of World War II, seems to be a splinter escape the inexorable flow of time ... The testimony is due to diary-destroyed-for more of an unidentified parish priest locally and is said to be mad after a long investigation of the facts in an attempt to prevent the event.
Many sites on the net show the same long and detailed piece that tells of a "great man" through a hidden power that he held in his hand the population of Abbadia Isola bartering miraculous cures and interventions on the weather with the unconditional membership to the "cult" which was in charge along with a small group of trusted collaborators.
The story is about poor and gullible peasants that seem to correspond more to a topos of medieval narrative to the actual condition of the sharecropping system Tuscan between 1900 and 1945 and while at first seems to be no trace of sources, quotations, surveys or interviews conducted in the field, looking more closely we discover rather than in the late 80's, Massimo Biliorsi in his "Al Apart from Siena, IFI 1988, tried to reconstruct the entire history of the mysterious holy man, helped by local people who remembered the events well.
"The sect was called the Society of Seven" -forum user tells Frustone Nature Mediterranean, quoting Biliorsi- "from the name of the ritual that will pass through seven gates scattered in a long journey that began just outside Pian del Lago, to go up in the forests of Montemaggio. Six doors are also now some really bad ... kept watch some pastures and woods without it 'right there' on the left wall or walls. " It was
gaps to cross, steps of a symbolic ritual that followers traveled route, singing in procession during the night of the new moon, hooded and carrying torches and candles, accompanied by a pregnant woman and three pairs of adolescents. It is said that every door recasse written in a strange alphabet, the words to reach the next and so on, the way to seventh, a sort of "stargate", the place that would have led the followers of the "truth." In the forests of
Montemaggio you can actually meet six of the seven ports mentioned, but after the sixth path that crosses all vanish, disturbing, in anything ...
Many sites on the net show the same long and detailed piece that tells of a "great man" through a hidden power that he held in his hand the population of Abbadia Isola bartering miraculous cures and interventions on the weather with the unconditional membership to the "cult" which was in charge along with a small group of trusted collaborators.
The story is about poor and gullible peasants that seem to correspond more to a topos of medieval narrative to the actual condition of the sharecropping system Tuscan between 1900 and 1945 and while at first seems to be no trace of sources, quotations, surveys or interviews conducted in the field, looking more closely we discover rather than in the late 80's, Massimo Biliorsi in his "Al Apart from Siena, IFI 1988, tried to reconstruct the entire history of the mysterious holy man, helped by local people who remembered the events well.
"The sect was called the Society of Seven" -forum user tells Frustone Nature Mediterranean, quoting Biliorsi- "from the name of the ritual that will pass through seven gates scattered in a long journey that began just outside Pian del Lago, to go up in the forests of Montemaggio. Six doors are also now some really bad ... kept watch some pastures and woods without it 'right there' on the left wall or walls. " It was
gaps to cross, steps of a symbolic ritual that followers traveled route, singing in procession during the night of the new moon, hooded and carrying torches and candles, accompanied by a pregnant woman and three pairs of adolescents. It is said that every door recasse written in a strange alphabet, the words to reach the next and so on, the way to seventh, a sort of "stargate", the place that would have led the followers of the "truth." In the forests of
Montemaggio you can actually meet six of the seven ports mentioned, but after the sixth path that crosses all vanish, disturbing, in anything ...
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