This characterful villa tells the story of transmission, luck, happiness and tradition, reuniting all the popular beliefs to which the Corsicans are so attached via their cultural heritage.
We have thus brought positive energy to the villa to ensure serenity for our guests.
La Signadora is the name given to Corsican women who pray to chase away the evil eye.
It is a purely feminine tradition and its transmission can only be undertaken on Christmas night and orally.
To become a Signadora, one has to be a devout Catholic to undertake this sacred gesture.
The transmission must be undertaken on Christmas night (before the 25th December) from mother to daughter and entails the passing of knowledge, prayers, and nursing techniques.
It is at this moment that the new Signadora will learn how to read the famous drops of oil falling from a plate or how to undertake the gestures to discover the evil.
The prayers, inseparable from this tradition, are also revealed in great secret of this intergenerational family secret.
She will learn how to break and chase the evil and the visitor with return to his normal state: “i incantesimi”.
If you look closer at the rosette plate, on the wall of the villa, we can observe that it is similar in shape to the eye of Sainte Lucie, considered to be a lucky charm in Corsica. This is in fact the operculum of a shell called Turbo, which is found on the Mediterranean shores, particularly on Corsican beaches.
The operculum has a side with a spiral design and the other is of pearly orange or greenish colour. This operculum is known as the Eye of Saint Lucie.
In Corsica, the Eye of Saint Lucie can be found in numerous jewellers. It can be simply mounted as a pendant or associated with other elements for its enhancement.
Lucie is called upon to treat eye problems.
By analogy, the Eye of Sainte Lucie wards off the evil spirit, brings luck and happiness, even favouring prosperity when placed near money.
