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Fell about in a catatonic state
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007119
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Hans Peter Duerr - Dreamtime
These peasants…. fell about into a catatonic like state on Thursday nights, while their soul rode about on typical witch’s animals, such as rabbits, cats and butterflies and mice, ‘invisibly with their spirit, while their bodies rested. Armed with fennel stalks they fought the enemies of order and fertility, of all the fruits of the earth, they called themselves, in their language, the Benandanti [good witches]’