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This area between Lombardy and Trentino containing Passo del Tonale and Val Camonica had a reputation as a centre of witchcraft, and of the burning of witches. Burckhardt, Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, Part VI comments in 1860: ‘Witchcraft ended by taking firm root in a few unlucky Alpine valleys, especially in the Val Camonica; the system of persecution had succeeded in permanently infecting with the delusion those populations which were in any way disposed to it.’
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