*To be built in an abandoned church. Boy, that place oughta be lively. If you go looking for weird esoterica in Torino, it tends to show up.
*Have at it, Google Translator:
http://www3.lastampa.it/torino/sezioni/cronaca/articolo/lstp/159632/
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"Turin, explained Brachetti, is internationally recognized as a world center of both white magic and black magic. The first is part of a triangle composed of the cities Turin, Lyon and Prague, while the second has for vertices Turin, London and San Francisco. The reasons for recognition are rooted in the legend of the founding of the city, born after Zeus had hurled Phaeton, Prince of Egypt, in the river Po.
(((I had never heard that Phaeton had his splashdown in the River Po. Given that Phaeton was driving the sun's flaming chariot at the time, that must have been pretty steamy.)))
The fall centered in the Fountain of the Four Seasons, located on the banks of the river in the Valentino Park. So was founded an Egyptian Turin, home of the second Egyptian museum of the world after the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. And Egypt is the first soil, remarked Brachetti, in which there appeared wizards. Please refer to some of the Egyptian papyri and the Bible itself. (((You had me at "Phaeton in the River Po," Mr Necromancer, sir.)))
And again, Bartolomeo Bosco was in Turin, the most famous magician of the nineteenth century, quoted from a Chaplin film to X-Files. In Turin, was founded the first Italian Spiritist Society and is now the CISU, Italian Center for UFO Studies, which is among the first in the world. Here lived John Bosco, patron saint of magicians, because as a young man he used sleight of hand to attract children to churches.
"With less than a tenth of what we have," - said Brachetti - "U.S. and France have done a lot. Turin is the ideal place for a Museum of Magic...."
