Legend of the Scalded - Acqui Terme, Italy - Urban Legends and Superstitions on Waymarking.com

"A local legend reports the custom of the city of Acqui to immerse newborn babies for a few moments in the Bollente spring: whoever survives, according to popular legend, is called "sgaiento", meaning scalded. Known and used since Roman times, the Bollente spring is mainly used in the Acqui spas.

The Bollente is an elegant octagonal shrine-temple inaugurated in 1879 in the square of the same name. This eclectic structure highlights a thermal spring from which sulphurous-salty-bromine-iodine water flows at a temperature of 74.5°. "
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