Hello, today I want to tell you a legend of Ica, the country I live in Peru.
The most famous witch or in local parlance “bruja” Ica is undoubtedly Julia Hernández Pecho Viuda, a witch dead 106 age, after a life of risky, full of spells and incantations addressed to do good and treat.
This is what says the legend that has been passed from father to son, historians informal, that tell the apocalyptic prophecy of the seven-headed palm.
There is in fact a Cachiche, a famous district of Ica in the past because the area of the Witches “bruje” and Sorcerers “Curanderos”, a strange palm tree with several trunks that are generated from a single root system. What makes this unique is the fact that palm plus a few logs onto the ground or are twisted like the coils of a snake.
Legend has it that the witch predicted that Ica was destroyed by a flood when this strange palm would be born the seventh head.
The witch was right unfortunately, In fact, Ica was flooded in January 1998 and about one thousand houses were flooded when the river overflowed.
In that year the palm had sprouted its seventh head and so since those who live in Cachiche cuts or burns on the seventh bush before it can grow and bring another flood!
Henry
Hey Hello! however, I read what you wrote and I loved it,I had no idea that there was a website Italo-Peruvian,I do not know how to see it emozzionato! already knew of the legend of the witches of Cachiche,I am interested in Andean folklore,criollo and wild Latin American countries of Peru soppratutto,are in Rome and my mother is Peruvian,this way I also have the Peruvian nationality,I'm living in Lima for about 4 age ,I 18 years study and for pleasure folklore (as I mentioned before) in each District of peru there are many myths,legends and fiabbe for every single thing. Hey look at this documentary maybe you can affect,Huanuco is on the ground Perricholi (one of the most famous women during the Spanish colony in peru,Huanuqueña she drove him mad love the Viceroy, etc. etc..) the video contains many fascinating landscapes,at first seems only the town but if you go ahead with the video, you will be amazed,There is also in its part of the famous village in the jungle “Sleeping Beauty” is a mountain shaped like a sleeping princess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnRjyvR9KZM&feature=share
Hello Gianfranco,
Welcome to the group! I am the administrator of PeruItalia.
One of the reasons why I came to live in Peru six months ago is because of its mysterious charm.
Like you I have a passion for then the myths and legends of Peru.
I suggest a few authors who have written very interesting books about Pollia like Mario and Carlos Castaneda.
I personally took part in a very special ritual of Ayahuaska in Tambopata, I am attaching the link:
https://www.peruitalia.com/2013/11/18/rituale-di-meditazione-della-ayahuasca-nella-amazzonia-peruviana/
I also recommend the website of one of our compatriot who has traveled and written so much about Peru:
http://www.yurileveratto.com/
To me personally very interested in the legend of “Los Gentiles” a kind of giant are said to have lived in Peru before the Flood.
Noteworthy is also the legend of the mermaid of the Peruvian Andes that is often described as a woman with long hair and the particularity of having your feet turned to the contrary. The mysterious thing is that the same figure with the same morphology is also a legend in the Italian mountains!
As you can see we definitely exchanging many stories about.
The folklore here in Peru has the particularity of having passed on and continued to live in the old days people echoes of the past, when the man still had a deep and special relationship with the environment.
Congratulations on your interest in myths Peruvians also for the fact that you are very young.
If you want to write an article about PeruItalia with some of your testimony in this regard at the top click on “Tell us your story”, I'd love to.
Greetings, Henry
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He did not know the leynda but if ava gone to that place