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- 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...
- Pietro and Cesaria and leader of a group of witch hunters called the Benandanti, inspired by their historical counterpart. Astrid Meloni as Amelia, Pietro...
- Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg compared Thiess' practices to those of the benandanti of northeastern Italy, and argued that they represented a survival of...
- Valcellina. In 1966, he published The Night Battles, an examination of the benandanti visionary folk tradition found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Friuli...
- e benandanti del Friuli Venezia Giulia' and 'Streghe, Avvelenatrici e Cortigiane di Roma' discovered new secrets. The existence of the Benandanti, an...
- calling themselves benandanti, the "good walkers" who believed that they combatted witches (streghe) by magical means. The benandanti were ****cuted for...
- 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...
- shamanistic cult centering around these beings, comparable to the Italian Benandanti and donas de fuera. One of the earliest pieces of evidence comes from...
- translation 1983). He noted similarities between the perchtenlaufen and the benandanti, a visionary tradition which existed in Early Modern Friuli, a province...