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"Dicebant enim inter montes isti civitati proximos esse lacum ab antiquis daemonibus conbsecratum et ab ipsi sensibiliter inhabitatum”

Pilate’s Lake is famous in popular memory, not only because of its great beauty but because this charming place is linked with the legends and the mysteries surrounding the Sibillini Mountains. Its greatest success was around 1200, when many medieval wizards and chiromancers arrived here from all over Europe (as we find in L. Degli Alberti, “Descrittione di tutta Italia”, 1557) to make sacrifices to the Devil...

That is why the Municipality of Norcia built a wall, during the Medieval age, all around the lake to prevent wizards from sacrilegious acts, the penalty being death. In fact it is testimony to the fact that two men (one of them was a priest) were surprised there during the night and condemned to this punishment: the priest was executed and burnt in Norcia, while the other was grinded and thrown away in the waters of the lake...

An extraordinary testimony is the “Big Rock”-found in Pilate’s Lake: it is a flat rock with mysterious letters on its surface, probably positioned there during the Medieval Age...

But this lake takes its name from the Roman Procurator Pontius Pilate who condemned Jesus Christ in Palestine. After the emperor Tiberius condemned Pilate to death, his body was closed in a sack and put on a cow driven chariot. These cows arrived on the top of Mount Vettore and threw themselves down in the lake with Pilate’s body. From this time the lake started to be populated by demons similar to animals...

Probably many chiromancers assimilated the presence of demons to the small red shellfish, which live in its waters: the Chirocefalo del Marchesoni is an endemic animal which lives only here in this lake.