Madonna Oriente

Madonna Oriente or Signora Oriente (woman from the Orient ), also known as La Signora del Gioco ( The woman of the game), are names of alleged religious figure, which was described by two Italian women who had the Inquisition in 1390 executed as witches, .

The recorded history of them is an elaborate and fantastic tale of occult religious rituals that were practiced in the homes of wealthy individuals from Milan. It is a known as Madonna Oriente woman who may have been considered by its adherents as a goddess, magic acts, such as have conducted the revival of slaughtered animals.

The two women, Sibilla Zanni and Pierina de Bugatis were the Inquisition first presented in 1384, where her story was dismissed as pure spinning the first time, which is why they were imposed only a minor penalty. As they had suspected, however, in 1390, she was accused of having intercourse with the devil and then tried and executed.

Although there is no evidence that the group described by the women really existed, it has a remarkable similarity to other testimonies of groups from Italy and the rest of Europe. e.g. the followers of "Rich Ella " and the " have Sibillia " ( 15th century, Northern Italy ), the " Benandanti " ( 16th and 17th centuries, Northern Italy ), the " joint reinforcement " (Pyrenees), the " Calusari " and the " Livonian werewolves " (Romania ), the " Kresniki " ( Dalmatia ), the " Táltos " (Hungary ) or the" Burkudzauta " ( Caucasus ); This widespread and often repeated motifs were identified by the historian Carlo Ginzburg as part of an ancient, mythological complex cult, which may have come from Central Eurasia.

Ginzburg concluded that the name Madonna Oriente from the Latin Domina Oriens, as a term for the moon as a deity derived.