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“Secondo le accuse, le “streghe” erano donne che avevano rapporti con il diavolo, si dedicavano a riti satanici e si abbandonavano a folli orge. In realtà si trattava di donne esperte in medicina naturale, per lo più contadine che conoscevano le proprietà curative delle erbe, usate ancora oggi. Ma queste donne, accrescendo le loro conoscenze e capacità di aiutare la gente, che le apprezzava, si affrancavano dalla dipendenza da Dio e dalla Chiesa.”

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Book:Dio odia le donne
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“Le labbra sottili del vampiro si piegarono in un sorriso sghembo, troppo affabile per essere reale. Un’altra donna lo avrebbe considerato un bellissimo sorriso, di quelli che restituivano una parvenza di raggiungibilità ad un’avvenenza di solito fredda e distante. Ma anche se Zeno non le era mai stato ostile, la sola cosa che lei aveva visto nel carisma superficiale del vampiro era il pericolo che dissimulava.”

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Book:Nodo di sangue
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“Witchcraft? Seriously? In spite of this, I spent the next hour reading everything I could find online about stregheria. Its existence was a pervasive legend through Italy, particularly in the Napoli region: the first streghe were believed to have originated in medieval times in Benevento, while the sea witches specifically had originated in the Positano region. As a whole, the women were known for reciting strange incantations and venerating various amulets, the most important of which was a cimaruta, a sort of talisman necklace meant to protect the water. It featured tiny branches, like coral, and charms such as hearts or moons. These women, I learned, were largely practitioners of benevolent kitchen magic: they worked with babies and herbs and gemstones. Today, many women still practiced forms of stregheria, though they were taken about as seriously as other practitioners of the esoteric, like mediums or Reiki healers. Which was to say, not very seriously at all. On an obscure website about the legends of the streghe del mare, I stumbled across a register of sea-spell incantations and their associated tools. I thought the list seemed rather ludicrous--- mermaid's combs and century-long spells?--- but interesting, nevertheless, and I found myself googling images of hagstones and shark egg sacks.”

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Book:The Amalfi Curse
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