Called “Benedicaria,” “Medicina Popolare,” and many other names by practitioners and detractors alike, the art of folk healing and magic is ancient as the first people living on Italian soil, while at the same time modern as any of us living here and now. Shaped by the Etruscan, Roman, Catholic, and Feudal civilizations of the Old World, and surviving persecution in the New, this spiritual knowledge has survived tremendous opposition, only to find itself slowly fading away as a result of assimilation and modernism.
Join Agostino for an evening as he explores the history, cultural context, and practice of Benedicaria, alongside where the word originally came from and the contours of this fascinating interplay of herbs, saints, novenas, and magico-religious ways of thinking.
Registration is $15 per person, and includes permanent access to the full video. Registration is automatic for Patreon subscribers at the $15 and above level.
Registration is at this link:
https://bit.ly/2U1QjmS
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https://www.patreon.com/agostino