benandanti - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Carlo Ginzburg’s The Night Battles studies the folk customs of these beings, who he described as being part of a “fertility cult.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these Friulian “good walkers” who claimed to travel out of their bodies during sleep, and fight for God using fennel against sorcerers armed with sorghum on Thursdays between the ember days.

ANSWER: benandanti [or benandante; or benandants]

[10m] Ginzburg compares the benandanti to Theiss, a Livonian man who claimed to become one of these creatures to defend his village’s crops. One of these creatures tears off his wife’s nose in Marie de France’s lai (“lay”) Bisclavret.

ANSWER: werewolves [or werewolf; or lycanthropes]

[10e] Benandanti would often perform this action on their spirit journeys to meet the bad sorcerers. In folklore, witches often use brooms to perform this action.

ANSWER: flight [or flying]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	18.57	100%	71%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	23.33	100%	89%	44%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Brown	MIT A	0	10	10	20
MIT B	Yale	0	10	10	20
Brandeis	RIT	0	10	10	20
Pittsburgh	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Ohio State A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	CWRU	0	10	10	20
Harvard	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	JHU B	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Swarthmore	0	10	10	20
Maryland C	NYU B	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Central Oklahoma	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Oklahoma	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Mount Sinai	0	10	10	20
JHU A	John Jay	0	10	10	20
Illinois	Indiana	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	UChicago B	0	0	10	10
UChicago A	Northwestern B	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
abg academy	New Young Whigs of America	0	0	10	10
rusty shackleford	Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	10	10	10	30
Toronto Operation PBSuccess	Guelph perfomative male competition	0	10	10	20
Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	Ottawa 67s	10	10	10	30
McGill Fartlets	Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	0	0	10	10
Queen's is monitoring the situation	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
Toronto G	Carleton A	0	10	10	20
#OpenToBuzz	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	Free Win	0	10	10	20
In Search of Lost Clues	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo you are crooked	McGill B	0	10	10	20
question mark	Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	0	10	10	20
Galactic Ombudsmen	1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	10	10	10	30
Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	Knorr Stock Clue	10	10	10	30
Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	Hail to the Sheaf	0	10	10	20
Of Mice and Penn	Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	0	10	10	20
The Bit and the Penndulum	Coughing Baby	0	10	10	20
Washed Scrubs	Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	10	10	10	30
Bristold	why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	0	0	10	10
Wise Duke	Planck Sinatra	0	0	10	10
UNC A	UNC B	0	10	10	20
VT A	VT B	0	10	10	20
VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	Truman State	0	10	10	20
WashU Kiki	WashU Bouba	0	10	10	20
To buzz is to be perceived	Chimp Brisket	10	10	10	30