This map, created by Neil Parkinson of Púca Printhouse In 2024, it showcases the monsters of Italian mythology.
Among the many myths that the author recovers in this map, some of the most iconic are worth highlighting:
- Toro Rosso of Turin (the red bull of Turin), the bull which the villagers plied with wine so that it might fight a dragon, and from which, according to some accounts, the city in Piedmont takes its name.
- Bellino Marmot (the marmots of Bellino), who, following a meteorite strike, learnt to fly and steal wine in the Alpine valleys of Piedmont.
- Tarantasio, the dragon that sank boats and devoured their occupants in the now-vanished Lake Gerundo, in Lombardy.
- Tellaro octopus (the Tellaro octopus), which rang the bells of the church of San Giorgio to warn the village of an attack by Saracen pirates in Liguria.
- Apennine Sibyl (the Sibyl of the Apennines), the prophetess who lived in a cave in the Sibylline Mountains, in the centre of the peninsula.
- Monaciello (the little monk), the house spirit dressed as a friar who sometimes steals coins from houses and sometimes leaves them there, in Naples.
- Lupumanare, the werewolf condemned for having been born at midnight on Christmas Day in Colobraro (Basilicata).
- Ladies from abroad, the fairies who flew on goats all the way to Benevento, carrying the people from sweet blood, in Sicily. The name is in Spanish because the island belonged at that time to the Spanish Monarchy, and it was the Spanish Inquisition which, between the 16th and 17th centuries, put on trial those who claimed to have dealings with them.
- Scylla and Charybdis, the sea monsters of the *Odyssey* that guarded each bank of the Strait of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.
- Janas, the little fairies whom tradition places in the prehistoric rock-cut tombs (the domus de janas) in Sardinia.
Many of the myths depicted are typical of a much wider region than the one in which they are located on the map.
Sources
- Mythical Beasts of Italy [oc]
- Mythical Beasts of Italy
- Illustrated Map, Mythical Beasts of Italy, A3 Art Print
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