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	ARE YOU BENANDANTI?
		The Benandanti, if they have survived into this modern age as I believe they have, would not neccessarily be aware of their unique talent.
		In the testimony at the witch trials, the Benandanti were approached by a spirit being and invited to participate in the Gatherings.
		Benandanti are, according to testimony at the trials, those born "in the caul," that is, with the amniotic sac intact.
	members.tripod.com /~benandanti/areyou.html (1356 words)

	Bendanti
		The benandanti believe that they go out and do battle with the witches.6 This belief has been passed down through stories that are told to both normal peasantry and the benandanti peasantry who live side by side.
		To be a benandanti was not bad both in the eyes of the benandanti themselves and in the eyes of popular opinion which was pretty much the same opinion.
		The belief that benandanti have changed and become evil and are able to do harmful things is also evident in evidence presented by the general public.
	www2.gvsu.edu /~thomasmr/Bendanti.html (2632 words)

	Once I noticed I was on fire, I decided to relax and enjoy the fall.: Remember that Green Children thing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Allies to werewolves and sorcerers, the Benandanti know the otherworld very, very well...it's possible they are attuned enough to the plant kingdom to sense the breakdown of the totem web, and take advantage of it when it happens.
		As to why the Benandanti would concern themselves...first off, they were somewhat vain and proud, like all good self-appointed heroes, and might well see the theft of human children as wrong.
		Therefore, the Benandanti (who are probably being fed information by the Typhonian seelie) are working to free the Beaker People from the clutches of their dark masters, who lurk in the bowels of the Tesseract Web, in the heart of the endless hollow earth.
	www.onceinoticediwasonfireidecidedtorelaxandenjoythefall.org /merkabah/archives/000152.html (1646 words)

	Benandanti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Women and men born with a caul ("inner fetal membrane still covering the body, especially the head") were believed to have mysterious healing powers and the ability to see witches.
		The benandanti were thought to have the ability to contact the world of the dead and to exercise control over the powers of nature for the benefit of society.
		As a result the local beliefs underwent a profound transformation, at by 1640 the benandanti themselves were acknowleging that they were in fact "witches" (Sidky 59, 60).
	www.shanmonster.com /witch/traits/benandanti.html (297 words)

	Did you know: Food History
		The witches were armed with stalks of sorghum and benandanti were armed with bundles of fennel.
		In their night battles, if the benandanti won, there would be abundance, but if the witches won, there would be famine.
		The benandanti ate garlic and fennel because they were thought to be defenses against witches.
	www.cliffordawright.com /history/fennel.html (101 words)

	witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (book reviews)
		In the case of the benandanti those powers manifested themselves chiefly during the Ember Days of the year--to be precise, on a went to the witches, they would bring famine on the land.
		Ginzburg also tries to show that the inquisitors directed their interrogations toward proving that the benandanti were simply witches; and that, after generations of steady effort, they succeeded in convincing the benandanti themselves.
		And as for the benandanti's view of themselves--in the couple of late cases where a benandante did confess to being a witch and attending the sabbath, Ginzburg himself wonders whether the confessions were not dictated by fear of torture.
	www.holysmoke.org /wb/wb0208.htm (1548 words)

	BT Encyclopedia B in The Summerlands
		Benandanti could join Her travels and learn which villagers were going to die in the upcoming year.
		The Benandanti came to the attention of the Inquisition in the late 16th century.
		To reclaim their "good" reputation, the Benandanti emphasized how evil the Witches were, and spread many tales about the horrors they inflicted on the village (horrors, I might add, that only the Benandanti could save the villagers from).
	www.summerlands.com /crossroads/remembrance/burning/secB.htm (1624 words)

	Dragon's Hoard - Flight of the Witch
		The spirit flight of the benandanti seems to be the same spirit flight that James, Boguet, Molitor and Nider (who in 1435 also believed it to be a kind of dream or delusion13) all spoke of.
		The difference is that the benandanti had a coherent belief system in which to incorporate this activity through which they could explain it to their inquisitors in the 1570s.
		When these accounts are combined with the testimony of the benandanti and indeed, compared with modern accounts of spirit flight21 it appears that there is a genuine phenomenon occurring.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/flight.htm (1458 words)

	Timothy Mason ; Reading the Riots - New Age Travellers and the Arlies of the Night
		The nocturnal excursions of the benandanti were preceded by a kind of trance which left the body as if dead, after which the spirit left it in the form of an animal (a mouse or butterfly) or riding on an animal (a hare, dog, pig, or the like).
		The sorcerers who are enemies of the fertility of the fields reflect the ancient notion of the unappeased dead; the processions of the dead are already a partially Christian image, similar to that of the souls in Purgatory.
		In either case, the benandanti, men or women, appear as professional intermediaries between the community and the realm of the dead.
	www.timothyjpmason.com /WebPages/Publications/riots.htm (5026 words)

	Late Night Games presents LA By Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		To the Benandanti (Czech, Dobrytampesky), those born with a caul are born to answer a call.
		Benandanti are taught the ways of demon and ghost hunting, and usually live out their lives in villages near Hellmouths and other supernatural hotspots.
		The Benandanti believe themselves to be agents of God, and are therefore very pious people.
	www.latenightgames.com /labynight/characters/viewchar.php?char=979 (1029 words)

	Dialogic Convictions
		The dialogic processes that led to the transformation of the benandanti into witches are similar to those that led to the progressive radicalization of Kaplan’s fundamentalist movement in the sense that the authoritative discourses that dominated both of these processes were located outside of the subjects.
		Absent from the case of the benandanti, however, is the notion of a reciprocal appropriation.
		In the case of the benandanti, the authoritative discourse was again external, but the process of appropriation was unidirectional: it was the Inquisition that infiltrated and transformed the benandanti’s religious narratives.
	www.persianblogger.com /english/dialogic-convictions.html (3283 words)

	Soul Food Cafe
		That part of the act is always somewhat unpredictable and because of that The Amazing Benandanti doesn't like to perform it very often because one night a creature that was part horse and part crocodile nearly took her head off.
		Kincross Benandanti is a Werewolf, but like a lot of us she has her talents too.
		So before the act fell apart The Amazing Benandanti kicked, choked and struggled for air...she was giving a very good impersonation of not only a dieing woman, but a dying woman in agony, much to the delight of her audience.
	www.dailywriting.net /MoscosoBenandanti.htm (4432 words)

	Sylvia Franco
		It's normally a TN5 roll against her Benandanti Witch cliché to refrain from involuntary change and animalistic behavior.
		Equipment: Winchester rifle and poison dart pistol, Benandanti herbs (fennel stalks, garlic, etc) and an iron whip (traditional Benandanti werewolf weapon, usually carried in her luggage).
		Unlike her brothers and sisters of the order, Sylvia was "blessed" with both the typically Benandanti gifts of Second Sight and Dreaming as well as blood of the Werewolf.
	www.velvet-edge.com /characters/sylvia_franco.html (439 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Benandanti (Male) Jenny jennyg@compuserve.com Fri Oct 16 10:07:22 1998 The most famous and well-documented sect of "Pagan" witches are the Benandanti of northern Italy.
		Their clients often called them "benandanti-strega" (Good Walker witches) but the Benandanti insisted to the end that they were not Strega.pIn several ways, the stories of the Benandanti reflect general European beliefs about witchcraft.
		The Benandanti said that their souls travelled out of their bodies, which appeared to be sleeping.
	www.summerlands.com /crossroads/scripts/remembrance/messages/80.txt (461 words)

	World of Darkness: Hunters
		The Benandanti (QatD, M) The Benandanti originated from a gypsy family called the Maldonati which beleived that there was power in those who were born with their cauls.
		BENANDANTI HUNTERS: Most Benandanti are vagabonds and live on their wits so Mental attributes will be high.
		The only other thing a Benandanti needs is the background "Talisman 5" which represents the HUNTERS caul after it was seperated from him during a ritual called The Unhooding.
	zerneeak.com /Hunters/minor.shtml (499 words)

	Ginzburg Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The benandanti also claimed that the witches would ruin the villagers’ wine and cause property damage on their return home from the battles.
		The very first of the benandanti to be mentioned before the court was Paolo Gasparutto of the village of Iassico in 1575, but the court decided that the stories told of him were simply peasant tall tales.
		There was nothing diabolic about what the benandanti claimed to have done; they were convinced that they were fighting on the side of God and their fellow villagers.
	www.kings.edu /womens_history/witch/wrevginzburg.html (1246 words)

	The Benadanti
		The Benandanti were members of a fertility cult who were basically anti-witches and practicers of white magic.
		One did not decide to be Benandanti, the calling was forced on certain people as an accident of birth.
		The Benandanti testified they left their bodies at night,(what we call astral projection) sometimes shape shifting into animal form, sometimes riding animals or household tools.
	www.attrition.org /mirror/attrition/1999/11/29/www.fabrisia.com/benadanti.htm (805 words)

	The Night Battles : Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century \|...
		Briefly, Ginzburg found that, in the Friuli district, there was a widespread belief that certain men and women were marked at birth as defenders against witches and demons, these being regarded mainly as the enemies of the people, their livestock, and their crops.
		The benandanti, marked at birth by the sign of the caul, served Christ and their community by leaving their bodies at night to fight evil witches that had attempted to destroy or steal their harvest.
		Because of the ignorance of the Friuli language and benandanti rituals, the Church conducted incessant inquisitions and trials against the self-proclaimed benandanti, which in effect, pushed the benandanti toward witchcraft and participation in the sabbat.
	www.this-is-great.com /info/flfelialja (1782 words)

	Ground-breaking work \| The Night Battles : Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He returns with a fascinating discovery of an ancient fertility cult, whose participants (the benandanti) represented themselves as defenders of harvest and fertility of the fields.
		The benandanti were united by a common element of having been born with the caul (i.e., wrapped in the placenta, which was thought to be an object endowed with magical powers).
		The book also champions a rather controversial thesis according to which the Church managed to steer the perception of the benandanti cult from representing fertility rites to that of witchcraft and the devil, almost as if the Church created the very devil that it abhorred.
	www.very-clever.com /information/dodaoekoqk (1408 words)

	benandanti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In the novel, the Benandanti are a global organization that has existed since medieval Europe, their primary objective being domination over their ancient nemesis, the moon goddess.
		The historical Benandanti were an obscure fertility cult that originated in northern Italy sometime in the 15th or 16th centuries.
		The Benandanti believed that through special nocturnal rituals they could exit their bodies and roam freely through the spirit plane, often in bestial form, or riding upon an animal’s back.
	www.missjune.org /benandanti.html (909 words)

	Random House Publishing Group \| April Witch by Majgull Axelsson
		Benandanti however, are not that strong although they can leave their bodies the same way she can.
		In real life, the stories of Benandanti first showed up in medieval Italy, where (before the Inquisition) they were considered to be good witches.
		When I wrote my story of my April witch, I saw the similarities between her and the benandanti and decided to let them meet in a small Swedish town.
	www.randomhouse.com /randomhouse/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812966886&view=qa (1563 words)

	Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Caul folklore has a powerful influence 1/31/98
		If the benandanti won, the crops that year would be abundant, but if they lost, the harvest would be poor and the villagers would suffer famine.
		The benandanti were required to return to their bodies by the dawn crowing of the cock, lest they have difficulty re- entering them or be unable to re-enter them at all.
		By 1623, the Church had obtained ``confessions'' of diabolical activities from some benandanti, but authorities never meted out more than mild punishment, due to the increasing skepticism of the verity of so-called witches' sabbats, which were believed to be wild nights of drinking, dancing and copulating with devils.
	www.augustachronicle.com /stories/020198/fea_123-3074.shtml (787 words)

	Mystical Readings from a Screen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Four times a year, on holidays associated with the planting and harvesting of crops, the Benandanti were called to Gatherings.It was at these Gatherings that the major battles with Malandanti were fought.The Benandanti fought with fennel stalks, the Malandanti with sorghum.
		One did not decide to be Benandanti, the calling was forced on certain people as an accident of birth.They were people "born in the caul", that is, born with the amniotic sac intact.
		Benandanti are, according to testimony at the trials, those born "in the caul," that is, with the amniotic sac intact.(Stregheria, (La Vecchia Religione), also known as the Old Religion, is Italian witchcraft.
	groups.msn.com /MysticalReadingsfromaScreen/bornwithveil.msnw (1358 words)

	witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (book reviews)
		It was throught that witches on the way home from their nocturnal gatherings were apt to break into wine cellars and, after helping themselves to wine, spoil the rest by urinating into it or throwing filth into the casks.
		Though in some of their dreams benandanti fought witches who were intent on destroying the crops, in others they rescued children who were being inwardly devoured by witches, or else they prevented witches from urinating into wine: not notably "agrarian" occupations at all.
		The dream-activities of the benandanti were directed against that kind of witchcraft.
	holysmoke.org /wb/wb0208.htm (1548 words)

	Paolo Gasparutto: in The Summerlands
		Paulo was born with a caul, the fetal membrane that sometimes covers a new-born's face.
		A "Benandanti Witch" was treating his son, the miller said.
		The priest pretended to be impressed by this, and with a little encouragement, Paolo talked for hours about the Benandanti and the work that they did in the community.
	www.summerlands.com /crossroads/remembrance/victims/paolo.htm (1442 words)

	The New Republic: The night battles: witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (book ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		When this book first appeared in Italian under the title I Benandanti it was hailed for throwing new light both on peasant mentality in the early modern period and on the nature of European witchcraft.
		That was a long time ago--I Benandanti was published in 1966.
		Since then the popular culture of the 16th and 17th centuries has been explored on a massive scale, and research on European wittchcraft and witch-hunting has also been abundant.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:3653245&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (226 words)

	Bright Weavings: The Worlds of Guy Gavriel Kay - Scholarship - The Annotated GGK
		A magico-religious cult known as the Benandanti existed in North-East Italy (Friuli - N of Trieste) at and probably before the end of the sixteenth century.
		The witches were armed with sorghum stalks and the Benandanti with sticks of fennel.
		Evidence comes from the records made when Benandanti were brought to the notice of the Holy Inquisition, suspected of attending witches sabbaths.
	brightweavings.com /scholarship/annotations.htm (1742 words)

	Cartiera dei Benandanti- Bologna-Monghidoro - Emilia Romagna - Italy - Directa Holiday Promotions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Four hundred metres from the farm on the banks of the river Idice, we have transformed an old farmhouse into the country hotel La Cartiera dei Benandanti.
		It takes its name from its original use; it was built at the end of the 16th Century and used as a paper mill ('cartiera'), where straw and rags were made into paper using water and the force of the river Idice.
		The 'Benandanti' were part of the agricultural cults of the time.
	www.directa.net /emilia/bologna/villaapart/benandanti.html (470 words)

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