Legends sardines have a hidden need to be rediscovered and passed:
Today we speak of "Is Cogas.
Sardinian According to popular tradition, the one who was born after a litter of six female succession was already predestined from the womb to be born a witch, just coga.
Other folk want to know a person coga just jealous, but capable of causing harm to the person envied.
The Cogas are recognizable because they have a tail or a tiny little cross on the hairy back. They were also known by names or surbiles surtoras.
view of witches and vampires as engaged in sucking human blood, especially that of infants not yet baptized, is Cogas were also feared for their power to transform into animals, become invisible or to move quickly astride a broom. Their night flight was accompanied by a hellish noise of pots lines so that people become aware of their presence.
is said to turn a indumeto enough, also worn at the time, to have it suddenly in front, naked, and covered only with long hair and fur.
A young man in love with a beautiful and mysterious girl, who worked in the bakery of his country, decided to investigate to find out why she's request for a kiss boy answered that he could not be touched until when he had solved a problem.
The young man though he was able to discreetly find out what he needed.
She was the seventh daughter in succession of his family and as such a coga. The young, however, was not resigned to this news, thinking to save it, waited patiently for the night when his sister gave birth.
In the courtyard of the house of his sister a shirt hanging from a tree of the unborn child turned on the contrary, put a tripod on the ground upside down and waited for the arrival of Cogas is.
The young do not have to wait long, the witches and they are all naked, covered only by their hair by hair. Among them was the beautiful young love, which sought to withdraw as soon as he recognized the young man.
At this point he grabbed her, dragged her up to the cellar of the house, promising that he would not hurt.
The young man ran to the nearby Church to seek the intervention of the priest, who took a crucifix and an icon representing a saint as an exorcist, and followed the young man.
To the surprise of both the basement locked from the outside did not find anyone, except a fly trying to escape.
The priest had blessed the young man lighting a candle as he spoke of the prayers.
As the light slowly began to illuminate the environment, the Moscone increased in size up to fall to the ground by the weight.
The young man who had kept his eyes closed during the ceremony, he opened them at that time and saw that the floor was the body of his beloved lying as if asleep.
They took her to the church where he woke up and where he remembered nothing.
With the help of the young priest and the girl was released from his problem was no longer a witch.
Legend 2
A woman who had given birth a few days ago, while going about daily chores, he heard noises coming from the room where the baby slept. When he arrived he saw that above the baby was a big cat. He understood that it was de sa coga, then took a stick and, with all his strength, struck the cat ran away. The woman became aware of having broken a leg. The next day he went to visit his mother-in-law and saw that he had a broken arm.
A couple had a baby recently. The man saw that one night his wife was breathing during sleep badly. He sensed it was the fault de sa coga. The
next night he decided to watch. When he heard his wife again draw breath, he reached out and grasp something. saw that it was a big cat.
She took him firmly by the neck, rubbed his nose still glowing in the ashes of the fireplace and threw it away. The next day he learned that a neighbor had burned his nose.
Curiosity
Anyone can become coga. The deal is to go to the cemetery on a Friday night, open the grave of a recently deceased bury and remove the fat from the body. Fat asportarto must then be mixed with the blood of a virgin, and holy oil.
ointment thus obtained is spread in the armpits and the soles of the future coga. Will fall as soon as the night begins to mutate into the frightening creature.
was typical of Cogas leave marks on the bodies of their victims. So far, the bruises that occur on the body, without taking shots, they are called on mossigu 'and coga (on mussiu de coga), the bite of the witch.
As we defended
Since babies have not yet been baptized the favorite victims of Cogas, mothers and grandmothers when the child was born, as a precaution, they put under the bed where he slept little in two skewers on top of a tripod upside down cross. The dispozione contrary to the normal use of these tools would know disoriented coga distracting from its target.
or place a crescent facing up, into the port of entry. Sa coga would spend all night to count the teeth of the sickle, because it was unable to count beyond the number seven, so would remain engaged throughout the night and would not hurt the baby.
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