The benandanti ("Good Walkers") were members of an agrarian visionary tradition in the Friuli district of Northeastern Italy during the 16th and 17th centuries...
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the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries is a historical study of the benandanti folk custom of 16th and 17th century Friuli, Northeastern Italy. It was...
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Witchcraft in Italy (section Benandanti)
e benandanti del Friuli Venezia Giulia' and 'Streghe, Avvelenatrici e Cortigiane di Roma' discovered new secrets. The existence of the Benandanti; "alluded...
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Pietro and Cesaria and leader of a group of witch hunters called the Benandanti, inspired by their historical counterpart. Astrid Meloni as Amelia, Pietro...
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Valcellina. In 1966, he published The Night Battles, an examination of the benandanti visionary folk tradition found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Friuli...
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Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg compared Thiess' practices to those of the benandanti of northeastern Italy, and argued that they represented a survival of...
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of nearby Friuli, who call their equivalent to the Slavic kresnici the Benandanti. After Christianization, the kresnik instead was claimed to have learned...
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calling themselves benandanti, the "good walkers" who believed that they combatted witches (streghe) by magical means. The benandanti were persecuted for...
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shamanistic cult centering around these beings, comparable to the Italian Benandanti and donas de fuera. One of the earliest pieces of evidence comes from...
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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...
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translation 1983). He noted similarities between the perchtenlaufen and the benandanti, a visionary tradition which existed in Early Modern Friuli, a province...
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there was a culture of individuals with shamanistic practices known as benandanti (literally 'well-farers'), who claimed that they battled witches, but...
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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...
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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...
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("seeress") the Italian fattucchiere ("fixers"), guaritori ("healers") or benandanti ("good walkers") the Portuguese curandeiros/as, benzedeiros/as ("blessers")...
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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...
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Richella and "the wise Sibillia" in 15th century Northern Italy, the Benandanti of 16th and 17th century Northern Italy, the Armiers of the Pyrenees,...
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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...
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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...
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of otherwise Christian Europeans was Carlo Ginzburg, who examined the Benandanti, an agrarian cult found in Friuli, Italy, whose members underwent shamanic...
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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...
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(1522–1525) Navarre witch trials (1525–26) Lisbon witch trial (1559–60) Benandanti (1575–1650) Witches of Laspaúles (1593) Basque witch trials (1609) Terrassa...
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always, female, and generally depicted as either villains or heroines. Benandanti – Agrarian visionary tradition in Italy Brethren of the Free Spirit –...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Seventeenth Centuries. JHU Press. ISBN 9781421409924. Ginzburg, Carlo, Benandanti: "de goda häxmästarna". Stehag: B. Östlings bokförlag Symposion, 1991...
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