Tag: Wildermann

The Wild Man's Tomb

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Legends and popular traditions about the figure of the Wild Man are widespread throughout the Alps [which we will have the opportunity to analyze on Wednesday evening together with Massimo Centini on our YouTube channel]. Thanks to this report by GM Mollar we discover that on the bottom of the Lanzo valley, in Piedmont, there is even what, according to local folklore, would be his tomb: let's go and see precisely what the legend that has been transmitted to us tells us through the ages.

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From Pan to the Devil: the 'demonization' and the removal of ancient European cults

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di Marco Maculotti
cover: Arnold Bรถcklin, โ€œPan, the Syrinx-Blowingโ€, 1827

We have previously had the opportunity to see that, in the first centuries of our era and even during the medieval era, the cd. "Rural paganism" it kept its diffusion unchanged, especially in the areas further away from the large inhabited centers. St. Maximus noted that "in the fourth century (...) the first missionaries passed from city to city and rapidly spread the Gospel over a very large area, but they did not even touch the surrounding countryside", Then adding that" even in the fifth and sixth centuries, when most of them had long since been converted, in Gaul and Spain the Church, as shown by the repeated canons of the councils of the time, encountered great difficulty in suppressing the ancient rites with which peasants from time immemorial averted plagues e they increased the fertility of the flocks and fields"[AA Barb, cit. in Centini, p.101].

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