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  2. Folklore of Italy - Wikipedia

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    The Italian folk revival was accelerating by 1966, when the Istituto Ernesto de Martino was founded by Gianni Bosio in Milan to document Italian oral culture and traditional music. Today, Italy's folk music is often divided into several spheres of geographic influence, a classification system proposed by Alan Lomax in 1956 and often repeated since.

  3. Craco - Wikipedia

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    Craco is a ghost town and comune in the province of Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. It was abandoned towards the end of the 20th century, due to faulty pipe work that was thought to have failed, causing the town to be abandoned due to a landslide. The abandonment has made Craco a tourist attraction and a popular filming ...

  4. Mythology of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Februus is the Italian God of purification who lives in the underworld. Fortuna is the Goddess of fate and fortune and also bringer of fertility. Jana is the Goddess of the Moon, said to have 2 faces. One faces the past, and the other faces the future. Jove is the Sky God. He is the equivalent of Jupiter of Roman mythology who is the King of ...

  5. Category:Italian legendary creatures - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Italian legendary creatures" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Anguane; B.

  6. Poveglia - Wikipedia

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    Poveglia (/ p oʊ ˈ v ɛ l i ə / poh-VEL-ee-ə; Italian: [poˈveʎʎa]) is a small island located between Venice and Lido in the Venetian Lagoon, of northern Italy. A small canal divides the island into two separate parts. The island first appears in the historical record in 421, and was populated until the residents fled warfare in 1379.

  7. Italian Producer Massimo Cristaldi, Who Shepherded ‘Sicilian ...

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    Cristaldi’s death was announced over the weekend by his Rome-based company Cristaldi Pictures in a statement […] Italian Producer Massimo Cristaldi, Who Shepherded ‘Sicilian Ghost Story ...

  8. Poggioreale - Wikipedia

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    Poggioreale (Sicilian: Poggiuriali) is a ghost town and comune in the province of Trapani, western Sicily, southern Italy, located in the Belice valley. Its economy was mostly based on agriculture and fruit cultivation. In 1968, the Belice Valley earthquake destroyed the entire town of Poggioreale and killed 200 people. The town was eventually ...

  9. Witches of Benevento - Wikipedia

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    (in Italian) La leggenda delle streghe on the web site of the journal Realtà Sannita (in Italian) The janaras on Vampiri.net (in Italian) Article about the janara on Sfairos Archived 2017-01-03 at the Wayback Machine (in English) The article Benevento, walnut tree of from the Encyclopedia of Witchcraft (in Italian) Maria Pia Selvaggio. "L ...