Tag: inquisition trial

The Benandanti: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults between 16th and 17th centuries in Italy

January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 by Matteo Damiani

History & Facts of the Benandanti, The Good Walkers A trial for heresy of two peasants reveals a pagan-shamanic peasant cult based on the fertility … Read more

The Cosmogony of a Sixteenth-Century Italian Miller

January 10, 2022December 29, 2021 by Matteo Damiani

A heresy trial held in Friuli, Italy in the sixteenth century brings to light the complex cosmogony and worldview of a miller who stunned the … Read more

Narni underground: The Inquisition Trial and the Room of Torment in Narni

May 1, 2021February 21, 2013 by WeirdItaly

In 1979 six members of the local speleological team of UTEC of Narni, in Umbria, below the ruins of an ancient Dominican monastery, discovered a … Read more

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