Bottana

Once upon a time, on the sunny streets of Palermo, there lived a young woman of disarming beauty. Daughter of a famous Sicilian Apothecary, she walked through the market streets with a light step and a curious mind, until her gaze was captured by something unusual.

Through the window of a corsetry shop, she saw a woman enveloped in a fiery red corset, which enhanced her figure with provocative elegance. That image awakened unknown emotions in the girl: carnal desires, passion, fire.

Shaken by that vision, she asked her nanny's daughter, a skilled seamstress, to sew her a similar corset. The young seamstress, cunning and audacious, took a red drape stolen from the curtains of the apothecary's study.
That night, she delivered the corset to the girl. When she put it on, the young woman was transformed: her senses ignited, her skin vibrated, her heart raced towards something unknown.

Driven by an irrepressible excitement, she crept out of the house. In the dim light of Palermo's streets, she met a charming young man. Her eyes were captivated by his figure and the red corset - a symbol, at the time, of courtesans.
Attracted by her mystery, he invited her home. They made love. And then, almost by mistake or by destiny, he left her three pennies.

The young woman returned home confused, but certain of one thing: she would never forget that night.
And so, night after night, she continued to go out. Each time, new lovers. Each time, three pennies.
Soon, word spread throughout the island. Tales were told of a young woman with an intoxicating scent, enveloped in a red corset, whose passing left an enveloping aroma of chocolate and passion in the air.
A legendary figure, half woman and half goddess, capable of awakening unexpressed desires and dragging souls into a world of seduction, mystery, and freedom.

Everyone started calling her: BOTTANA (Whore).