>One reason I liked them so much is that despite several centuries'
>work on them, the Church never actually broke the benandanti;
>the witch hunts ended before they could get members of the
>benandanti to admit to more than, roughly, "oh, all right,
>we're witches, but we're God's witches".

There is a hilarious flavor of labor dispute in the Inquisition's interactions with the benandanti in Ginzburg. It's as if the Church of Rome is the evil-fighters' union and the benandanti are indie operators working their side of the street without paying up.

--G.
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