Domina Lunae (The Lady of The Night)
Over the period of three centuries the Roman Catholic Holy Inquisition prosecuted and sentenced to Capital Punishment more than 900 thousands women under the accusation of Heresy or Witchcraft.
Dianora Farnese, also remembered as "La Balda" was executed and beheaded on a cold windy morning the 19th day of October, year of Our Lord 1593, at the outskirts of the small northern town of Corcinesco, Trontano, in the art of the Italian Alps. Her head left exposed on display by the village people for several days to serve as warning to all those involved in communion with the Devil, sorceries, necromancy and the Black Arts. The presumed witch last final cry is described in ghostly legends as a direct curse towards all those responsible for her gruesome death for generations to come.
Many cases of disappearances without a trace amongst members of the mountains community in Northern Italy still as today rest mysteriously unsolved inside old forgotten files of the local police departments.
(... extract from the civic archives of the Municipal Museum of Natural History G. C. Galletti, Domodossola (No) Italy, September 12th, 1981).