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Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans.One of a wide variety of genres of Roman folklore, Roman mythology may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period.
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 ...
Italy portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. R. Roman legendary creatures (2 C, 21 P) W. Wild men (2 C, 34 P) Pages ...
Italian mythology includes the myths of the Italian people. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. I. Italic mythology (4 C) L.
Mythology of Italy (4 C, 2 P) O. Our Lady of the Hens (4 P) S. Sicilian folklore (1 C, 3 P) Stories within Italian Folktales (18 P) Superstitions of Italy (1 C, 4 P) U.
(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 ...
Fresco of Odysseus (Etruscan: Uθuste) and the Cyclops (Etruscan: Cuclu) in the Tomb of Orcus, Tarquinia, Italy.. The origins of Orcus may have lain in Etruscan religion.The so-called "Tomb of Orcus", an Etruscan site at Tarquinia, is a misnomer, resulting from its first discoverers mistaking a hairy, bearded giant for Orcus; it actually depicts a Cyclops.
A popular belief is that her name derives from the Feast of Epiphany (Italian: Festa dell'Epifania). [2] [3] Many people believe that the name Befana is derived from the Italian version of the Greek word epifania or epiphaneia (Greek, επιφάνεια = appearance, surface; English: epiphany) and this is the most popular theory.