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papercatlab · 2 years
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(via In ITALIANO: Little Astrological Diary Written and - Etsy Italy)
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Hello! I am just starting my journey on reconnecting with my traditional roots as an Italian practitioner. My great grandparents came from Italy in the mid 1900s, but unfortunately passed before I had the pleasure of asking about their practices. Can I ask a good starting point for someone who is trying to reconnect all on her own?
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I am so happy that you are wanting to reconnect with your roots! I'm sorry you didn't get the opportunity to ask your grandparents, my deepest condolences for your loss.
In terms of resources, my recommendation for anyone starting out is to go to folklore sources or to read books by authors who don't simply reference other witchcraft authors. I highly recommend reading Italian Folk Magic: Rue's Kitchen Witchery by Mary-Grace Fahrun. It's mostly her personal experience with Italian folk-Catholicism and magic with plenty of anecdotes, recipes, superstitions, and various rituals. I think it's probably the best widely available source out there. She also has a youtube channel! In a similar vein, the website Italian Folk Magic has some great posts about Southern Italian and Sicilian magic.
Other online resources I've found useful are Gail Faith Edwards' writings on Southern Italian healers and folk medicine (it's split into 2 parts–– there's a lot of great information if you're into herbalism/ green witchcraft). I also love this article detailing witchcraft history, superstition, and more throughout Italy. It goes into a lot of detail and has some information about herbal properties and their uses as well.
Here are some festivals and traditions from across Italy tied to folk belief: Focara of Novoli, The Campanacci in Basilicata, The Feast of San Domenico and the Ritual of Serpari of Cocullo, Naca Procession in Southern Italy, Dance of the Devils, Celebration of Santa Lucia, The Feast of Mamma Schiavona––There are many others (mostly Saint feasts) that have pre-Christian roots or have significant rituals attached.
Most information that I have collected comes from anthropological and folklore sources that aren't very accessible. There are some videos available of documentary footage of Italian anthropologist Ernesto de Martino's work detailing folk tradition: here's a clip of La Taranta. This documentary isn't in English, however you can still get a lot out of it even if you don't speak Italian (unfortunately there are no subtitles). The documentarian that worked with de Martino, Luigi Di Gianni gives some of his recollections here. Here is a clip documenting the Feast of Mamma Schiavona. Otherwise, everything else is behind a paywall on sites like jstor, sagepub, and other academic publishers. I would recommend reading anything by anthropologist and folklorist Sabina Magliocco (I have copies of her work), as well as de Martino's Magic: A Theory from the South (which I also have a pdf of). The academic texts can be a little dense and daunting, but they're worth the read.
I have uploaded some of what I have to WeTransfer, but it will only be up for 1 week (until July 10th) so if anyone else would like to download them, you can for a limited time!
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shittyravencarcosa · 5 months
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Jesse Reeves finds something ancient and dangerous in the depths of the desert. There may be aliens in this story, but I promise: they are not replimoids.
But this story is written in an unknown language; you may use a translator, at your own risk. By translating it you might awaken an ancient Italian grandmother, and no, it doesn't sound like it is good news.
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theserpentpharmakiea · 6 months
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The time of death and ancestral reverence is here. Even though the time of honoring your ancestors is all year round, the fall and winter seasons are the time of death, and as the earths foliage dies and transforms we can see the change more and more each day.
The changes to the earth at this time of year are just like like the changes to the human body as death prepares you for your long journey.
Death and the dead are topics I have always been fascinated with. As a medium and trance channeler, I have always had a close connection to the dead and my ancestors. When my Gigi passed away a few years ago, I felt even closer to the spirit world than ever.
The pictures above are of my Grandmother, it shows the stages of her life until the end. How the slow but inevitable decline changed her form, demeanor, and personality.
My grandmother was a strong loving and caring Neapolitan American Woman, and she is the one who taught me how to love.
Working with the Ancestors is a huge part of my practice and life. If you are new to working with ancestors or you would like to get and idea on how an Italian American Folk Witch honors and works with her ancestors then join me for my new class Saturday October 21 at 7pm.
# samhain # halloween # ancestralveneration # ancestralwisdom # ancestralmagic # folkmagic # mabon # autumnequinox # witchcraft # ancientmedicine # ancestors # ancestralhealing # witchesofinstagram # halloweenmagic # streghe # stregheitaliane # stregoneria # stregoneriaitaliana # janare # janara # majare # majara
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lastregadeilibri · 20 days
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Ascolta. Questa è la lezione più importante dell'addestramento da strega. Una strega deve fare affidamento sul proprio intuito, però non deve lasciare che questo abbia il sopravvento. Quando succede, le convinzioni troppo ferme diventano fissazioni e prendono il controllo della persona. Considera le intuizioni per quello che sono e conservale da qualche parte nel tuo cuore. Prima o poi, arriverà il momento in cui capirai se erano vere. E a forza di ripetere questo tipo di esperienze imparerai a riconoscere la sensazione di quando hai una vera intuizione.
ஐ Kaho Nashiki - Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest ஐ
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giallofever2 · 1 year
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English - Le Streghe Siamo Noi - La Salamandra - 1975
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elvthron · 2 years
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Just sharing what I've found thrift shopping.
There's always a little treasure in a pile of vintage stuff 🤍
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takiisieju · 1 year
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A bit late to Halloween, but I still hope La Squadra delle Streghe (i don’t know Italian) will bring you joy.
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demonecelestiale · 2 months
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la canzone di Fiorella è per tutte le streghe italiane
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anglerflsh · 7 months
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What history books/documentaries could you recommend? The topic and time period doesn't matter, anything is good.
Forgive me if these are dated, italian titles, or both; under the cut
I enjoyed reading the collection of volumes on history by Botta, so if you can find them, they're good (and from 1830). I'd also suggest historical novels written by Alessandro Barbero, as they are way more recent and typically very well-researched! My father is quite a big fan of them. I will also add Arianna Rota's book on the Risorgimento as a personal note.
Aside from those basics, I arrive at an impasse because the next books-about-history I've read and would recommend are all witch hunting manuals. So, unless that puts you off: Discovery of Witches, Demonology, the Malleus- but also, still on topic, "La caccia alle streghe" by Palazzo (mainly about Pierre de Lancre), and "Il Libro Nero della caccia alle streghe" by De Angelis.
On the matter of documentaries: if video essays are something you enjoy, the youtube channel Kaz Rowe makes really good videos. To that I'll add these two, and recommend if you can find it on YouTube the program "Ulisse" by Alberto Angela as well as "Passato e Presente" (which incidentally suggests books at the end of every episode).
I'd make this a longer list but a lot of the other titles are things I did not write down, and seeing as I'm not at home and won't be for another couple of days this will have to suffice.
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ancientphantom · 7 months
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It's quiet on the Phantom front in August, with only a couple of kids' adaptations and one Italian translation, but that's not nothing!
Le Fantome de l'Opera by Frank Milani & Paulette Collet is one of those for-student adaptations of the novel - the content is mostly the same, but the translation/vocabulary/plot have been thinned down to the level the publisher thinks an intermediate high school student might be able to handle. Such rewrites often have interesting stuff in there from the adapters, though!
The Phantom of the Opera by Louise Benette & David Hwang is another of the same, designed to get middle-grade kids around eight to ten years old familiar with the concepts of a more complicated story and with classic characters they might see in other contexts. Personally, I'm delighted by how much Erik's head looks like a sad potato.
Streghe all'Opera by Terry Pratchett is an Italian translation of the beloved Discworld novel Maskerade, itself a parody of the Phantom story as well as part of the author's enormous fantasy universe. If you wanted to really make those Italian opera jokes sing, now is your moment!
And that was it for the month. But the spooky season is right around the corner again...
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the---hermit · 2 years
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Articles I read in May 2022
I normally don't do this, but since I have been working full time on my thesis, I read a lot of articles, so I thought I do a wrap up of those aswell. The theme of the articles is witch hunts and the historiography of witchcraft, as my thesis is on a witch trial. All the articles I found on jstor (and I will link the website), the majority are in English but I'll also include those written in Italian.
The Pursuit of Reality: Recent Research into the History of Witchcraft by Malcolm Gaskill
The Historiography of European Witchcraft: Progress and Prospects by E. William Monter
The European Witch Craze of the 14th to 17th Centuries: A Sociologist's Perspective by Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Who Were the Witches? The Social Roles of the Accused in the European Witch Trials by Richard A. Horsley
Witchcraft, Female Aggression, and Power in the Early Modern Community by Edward Bever
Witchcraft Prosecutions and the Decline of Magic by Edward Bever
The Invisible Men: The Historial and The Male Witch by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow (This is the first chapter of the book Male Witches In Early Modern Europe, I ended up reading the whole book, all the chapters are present on jstor, but I will link only this one. For those interested the book is composed by five chapters plus the introduction and conclusion)
La stregoneria. Confessioni e accuse, nell'analisi di storici e antropologi di Mary Douglas Reviewed by Michela Pereira
Ancora a Proposito di Streghe by Michaela Valente
The full list of books I read this month and their reviews is here
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theserpentpharmakiea · 6 months
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Who are we if not the manifestations of our ancestors spells. Their thoughts of a new beginning and better life transform into the future magical beings that we are.
Our ancestors fought long and hard, they felt the pain and hardships that the past brought.
When you truly open yourself up to the guidance of the ancestors and you ask them to make sense of everything that is in front of you, they will.
It has taken me years to figure out my mother's side. I was always told she was cherokee and scotts-irish, and to an extent that is right but that is not including the Iberian/catalonian/basque, french, romani, plus small percentage of african that comes from her side. When I found this out I was so confused and floored especially because as far as I knew, my moms family was not any of those things! But as I did more research and really buried myself into this ancestral work I finally found my answer. This whole time I was looking at everything separately, how is it possible for all these groups of people to have mixed and mingled? I realized that I was looking at this all wrong. I began noticing things about certain groups of people from the area my mom is from. My mom is from Kentucky. Her family has lived all around the Appalachian mountains. Now, her family is in Western Kentucky, close to the Illinois Kentucky line. I happened to fall on a group of people called the Melungeons. Everything about them sounded extremely familiar. From their light eyes, thick dark hair, dark skin, european features, and high cheek bones as well as the familiar last names that I saw on the list of common melungeon surnames like Crow, Allen, Bell, Wise, Moore, Lowry, Greene, Cox, Clark, Collins, Powell, Hopkins, Bridges, Dye, etc.. These names are so important because these are the surnames for my moms family who lived in the areas inhabited by the Melungeons. I feel like my ancestors have been guiding me me to this information for awhile. Learning about our ancestors helps us to learn about ourselves. I will never stop learning of them and their ways. I am going to start a countdown to my new class on working with the Ancestors. Everyday until my new class Working with the Ancestors 101 on Saturday 10/28, I am going to be posting about one of my ancestors every day in their honor. To access my new class check out the link below.
https://courses.zinzeudo.com/courses/Working-With-The-Ancestors-101
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jessread-s · 2 years
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✩💀🐍Review: “Kingdom of the Wicked” is the first book I have read by Kerri Maniscalco and her writing is wickedly delightful! In the author’s note, Maniscalco dedicates the book to her great grandparents who immigrated to the United States from Siciliy. Much of the story takes place in this region of the world and Manisclaco does a fantastic job immersing the reader in Sicilian culture. One way she does this is by describing the dishes from Sea and Vine, the di Carlo family restaurant in a way that made my mouth water. Maniscalco also weaves the Italian language into the text and uses imagery to help the reader learn more about the island’s important landmarks, like the Capuchin Catacombs, which is something I appreciated. While real places are referenced throughout the story, Maniscalco makes it clear that there is an otherworldliness by introducing different types of magical creatures. Emilia herself is a streghe (witch) with the ability to see a person’s aura and summon fire. Many witches populate Sicily (though most stay in hiding throughout the duration of the novel alongside demons, vampires, werewolves, and shapeshifters) and I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the history of their existence regarding the First Witch. The most intriguing of Maniscalco’s supernatural beings are the princes of Hell. There are seven of them ruling over the kingdom of the Wicked and each one corresponds to one of the seven deadly sins. Maniscalco does a great job making each prince different from one another and perfectly characterizes them according to the sin they embody. Aside from Maniscalco’s creative spin on the seven deadly sins, my favorite thing about this novel is the chemistry between Emilia and Wrath. Their verbal sparring matches are incredibly entertaining and Wrath’s inability to let Emilia suffer is adorable. As the mystery surrounding the death of several witches deepens, Emilia and Wrath are forced to grow closer in order to find the answers they are looking for, making for some swoon worthy moments. ➤ 4.5 stars
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@kerrimaniscalco​
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pettirosso1959 · 3 months
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Se Cristo s'è fermato ad Eboli, a Padova c'è morto.
Padova, la città della Cappella degli Scrovegni affrescata da Giotto, e che ora è diventata l'ultima roccaforte comunista in Veneto.
A Padova, Gesù non c'è più.
E' stato sostituito da Cucù.
Così è stato deciso dal "concilio" delle streghe.
Vale a dire delle insegnanti di una locale scuola elementare, precisamente ad Agna, la Edmondo De Amicis.
E così, nella recita di Natale dei bambini, Gesù non c'è più.
E manco San Giuseppe e la Madonna, gli angeli e compagnia bella.
C'è Cucù, nei canti e nelle poesie.
Un personaggio di fantasia ideato per NON OFFENDERE i bambini musulmani presenti nella scuola (e il loro tolleranti genitori, direi, soprattutto, perché i bambini sono bambini e non si offendono per queste cose, si offendono solo se li tratti una merda).
Ma che bello.
Cucù, è morto Gesù, adesso ci sto io.
Persino a me, che ormai guardo i preti come Peter gli Zombi in Dawn of the Dead, persino a me che, più mi avvicino alla fine e più i precetti religiosi mi suscitano dubbi orribili e paure indescrivibili, persino a me, sempre ormai più agnostico e sfiduciato, questo Gesù inizia a fare una pena sempre più insopportabile e non tanto e non solo per il supplizio della Croce.
Ma per come è stato abbandonato, di nuovo, e tradito dalla Sua stessa Chiesa, dai Suoi stessi credenti, che non hanno più il coraggio di difenderlo e lo abiurano ormai, massa di vigliacchi e venduti.
Cucù, Gesù non c'è quaggiù, così il marocchino non s'offende più.
Ma io, così agnostico ormai da essere quasi ateo, sono nato Cristiano.
Ho ricevuto i sacramenti, conosco il Vangelo, ho nutrito e nutro ancora profonda ammirazione per quell'uomo, figlio di Dio o NON figlio di Dio.
E so benissimo di un Gesù misericordioso ma anche umano, molto umano e pure incazzoso.
Gesù che prende a calci i mercanti del Tempio, che gli urla contro.
E mi ci voglio immedesimare.
E allora mi immagino mentre prendo a calci in culo quelle fottute idiote, quelle STRONZE, cacciandole fuori dal portone della scuola.
E mi immagino mentre gli urlo in faccia i peggiori insulti, mamme e sorelle loro incluse nel pacchetto, le mamme, soprattutto, che l'hanno partorite, mettendo al mondo tali canaglie.
E mi immagino nel mentre prendo a calci, parimenti, qualsiasi stramaledetto straniero che abbia mezza parola da dire.
Ti offendi ? E allora vaffanculo al paese tuo.
Che se vengo in Algeria, in Libia, in Nigeria, in Pakistan, per i figli miei, Cristiani, di certo alle vostre tradizioni e usanze, soprattutto religiose, non rinunciate e se m'offendo mi pestate a sangue e mi schiaffate pure in carcere.
Mi immagino così, insomma, Angelo Vendicatore del Povero Gesù, un angelo dalla pedata e dalla parolaccia facile, che caccia i farisei dalle scuole italiane, e ci godo.
Un Angelo che urla :
" Viva Gesù, vaffanculo Tu, e Cucù" !
Giuseppe Sabatino.
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