Gendering the extended family of Ginzburg's Benandanti.(Carlo Ginzburg)

From: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: Monter, William | Copyright information

In the forty years since Carlo Ginzburg surprised historians with evidence that a set of archaic beliefs about supernatural nocturnal battles waged by specially endowed people was flourishing in Italy's northeastern corner in the late sixteenth century, subsequent research has enormously extended our information about their shamanstic analogs into widely scattered corners of the European world and far beyond. Since 1989, Ginzburg himself has contributed to this extension and confus...

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