According to a legend, a witch lived in Pollenzo in 1544: Micaela Angiolina, called Micilina. One day, after being condemned to the stake, she was carried on a cart pulled by two white oxen to a hill where she was chained to an old chestnut tree.
The traditional tale narrates that while the woman was already shrouded in flames, freeing herself from the band she had on her mouth, she screamed a curse on the people who looked at her in awe: "Wretched ones! It will not be the flames that will get rid of me, it will be a terrible war that will end only when these two oxen will return white!". At that point there was a terrible roar and the two oxen, who had transported her there, from white became red. Crazed, they threw themselves against the screaming crowd.
Even today, on that hill there are unusual red patches on the ground that the legend identifies with the blood of Micilina.
