MME4067334: Galatina, Italy. Fresco above the well in the chapel of St. Paul where tarantolati were conducted to drink its healer water. According to local legend the "tarantolati" or "tarantati", usually women, are affected by hysterical crisis caused by a bite of the tarantula spider and St. Paul, the patron of the poisoned, would be the their patron saint, Mencarini, Marcello / Bridgeman Images
MME4067343: Galatina, Italy. Musician playing Pizzica with tambourine. Pizzica is a frenetic traditional dance born in this town to heal the "tarantolati", mostly women, affected by recurrent hysterical crisis that local legend believes to be caused by the bite of the tarantula spider, Mencarini, Marcello / Bridgeman Images
MME4067962: Venice, 1998. Bridge of Sights in the foreground. This bridge, built in 1602, passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the new prisons to the old prisons in the Doge's Palace. His name is because the convicts went across it before their imprisonment. A local legend says that lovers will be granted everlasting love if they kiss on a gondola at sunset under the bridge, Mencarini, Marcello / Bridgeman Images