The benandanti ("Good Walkers") were members of an agrarian visionary tradition in the Friuli district of Northeastern Italy during the 16th and 17th centuries...

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries is a historical study of the benandanti folk custom of 16th and 17th century Friuli, Northeastern Italy. It was...

e benandanti del Friuli Venezia Giulia' and 'Streghe, Avvelenatrici e Cortigiane di Roma' discovered new secrets. The existence of the Benandanti; "alluded...

Pietro and Cesaria and leader of a group of witch hunters called the Benandanti, inspired by their historical counterpart. Astrid Meloni as Amelia, Pietro...

Valcellina. In 1966, he published The Night Battles, an examination of the benandanti visionary folk tradition found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Friuli...

Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg compared Thiess' practices to those of the benandanti of northeastern Italy, and argued that they represented a survival of...

of nearby Friuli, who call their equivalent to the Slavic kresnici the Benandanti. After Christianization, the kresnik instead was claimed to have learned...

calling themselves benandanti, the "good walkers" who believed that they combatted witches (streghe) by magical means. The benandanti were persecuted for...

shamanistic cult centering around these beings, comparable to the Italian Benandanti and donas de fuera. One of the earliest pieces of evidence comes from...

Telegraph via News.com.au. Retrieved 2011-10-15. The story of these so-called benandanti is recounted in Carlo Ginzburg's study The Night Battles: Witchcraft and...

translation 1983). He noted similarities between the perchtenlaufen and the benandanti, a visionary tradition which existed in Early Modern Friuli, a province...

there was a culture of individuals with shamanistic practices known as benandanti (literally 'well-farers'), who claimed that they battled witches, but...

forward in Ginzburg's 1966 book The Night Battles, in which he studied the benandanti, a visionary folk tradition found in the north-eastern Italian province...

This case was also noted by Carlo Ginzburg as similar to that of the Benandanti. The court tried to make Thiess confess that he had made a pact with the...

("seeress") the Italian fattucchiere ("fixers"), guaritori ("healers") or benandanti ("good walkers") the Portuguese curandeiros/as, benzedeiros/as ("blessers")...

Northeastern Italy in the early modern period, sticks of sorghum were used by Benandanti visionaries of the Friuli district to fight off witches who were thought...

Richella and "the wise Sibillia" in 15th century Northern Italy, the Benandanti of 16th and 17th century Northern Italy, the Armiers of the Pyrenees,...

until death, which made it heresy; it was the same thing practiced by the benandanti, also often accused for witch craft. Both Polissena di San Macario and...

published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (M.P.C. 111803). Benandanti Furlanis Ladinia List of dukes and margraves of Friuli List of Friulian...

of otherwise Christian Europeans was Carlo Ginzburg, who examined the Benandanti, an agrarian cult found in Friuli, Italy, whose members underwent shamanic...

and executed in 1610. The Inquisition also concerned itself with the Benandanti in the Friuli region, but considered them a lesser danger than the Protestant...

(1522–1525) Navarre witch trials (1525–26) Lisbon witch trial (1559–60) Benandanti (1575–1650) Witches of Laspaúles (1593) Basque witch trials (1609) Terrassa...

always, female, and generally depicted as either villains or heroines. Benandanti – Agrarian visionary tradition in Italy Brethren of the Free Spirit –...

records of a group of individuals in northern Italy, calling themselves benandanti, who believed that they went out of their bodies in spirit and fought...

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also pointed to Carlo Ginzburg's discovery in the 1960s of the Italian benandanti, folk magicians who practiced anti-witchcraft magic and were themselves...

interpretation of the benandanti; Cohn stated that there was "nothing whatsoever" in the source material to justify the idea that the benandanti were the "survival...

ogre and their job is to take away children who do not behave well. The Benandanti were linked to a pagan-shamanic peasant cult based on the fertility of...

this Ossetian 'combat in ecstasy' and those formerly practiced by the benandanti of Friuli and also by certain other shaman-like figures in Hungary and...

Seventeenth Centuries. JHU Press. ISBN 9781421409924. Ginzburg, Carlo, Benandanti: "de goda häxmästarna". Stehag: B. Östlings bokförlag Symposion, 1991...