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Benandanti The Good Walkers
Benandanti The Good Walkers
Written By Mister Gu on Friday, March 28, 2014 | 5:55 AM
One of the strangest cases in the files of the Italian Inquisition is the case of the benandanti (Italian for “good walkers”), a secret society of peasant magicians in the region of Friuli, in the far northeast of Italy. The benandanti first came to the attention of the Catholic authorities in 1575, when a member of the society was brought before the Inquisition on an unrelated charge. The