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The house of the “Wild Woman”

The Wild Woman is characterised, in the Langhe peasant society, as the bearer of an ancient culture, in close contact with nature and its secrets, with jobs linked to seasonality, with the wisdom of the old people interspersed with popular and superstitious religiosity.
An ancient tale about the Saliges describes the Wild Women of the Langhe as “recurring figures in the sagas of the Alps, which represent the deepest feminine, bodily and instinctual roots: the archetype of nature wild and free, untouched by civilisation and its discontents”.
The concept of the Wild Woman was then taken and made famous by Romano Levi, artisan producer of renowned Grappa, poet and label designer, a celebrity in Neive. For him, the Wild Women are visions, memories of the past, of when he went to school on foot and in the street came across “beautiful dishevelled women, who were a little bit crazy, a little bit witches and a little bit fairies”.
This is how Romano describes the “Wild Women” to us:

text taken from the website www.borghisostenibili.it