(…) Secondo Propp, con l’apparire dell’agricoltura e della religione agricola tutta la religione “silvestre” si trasformò in un’autentica diavoleria, il grande mago diventò uno stregone,la madre e signora degli animali divenne una strega che s’impadroniva dei bambini per divorarli non più simbolicamente << Il tenore di vita che distrusse il rito ne distrusse anche i creatori e gl’iniziatori:la strega che bruciava i bambini viene bruciata a sua volta dal favoleggiatore,iniziatore della tradizione epica fiabesca. Questo motivo non si ritrova nei riti né nelle credenze,ma compare appena il racconto comincia a circolare indipendentemente dal rito, dimostrando che il tema non si è creato sotto il tenore di vita che aveva creato il rito, ma sotto quello che gli succedette,e trasformò il sacro e il terribile in grottesco eroi-comico>>, (Propp, p.178). Riflessi di questo passaggio sono ravvisabili non solo nella dimensione simbolica, ma ,per quanto riguarda l’Occidente cristianizzato, anche nella profonda e,a tratti feroce, opera di acculturazione dei rustici e dei montanari ai nuovi valori culturali e religiosi espressi dalla civiltà urbana e paleoborghese realizzata dalle istituzioni secolari ed ecclesiastiche tra la fine del Medioevo e gli albori dell’età moderna. Ben più radicale della transizione dalla civiltà paleolitica a quella neolitica, la modernizzazione della società europea comportò un drastico ridimensionamento di credenze e pratiche ancestrali e con essi la fine ,talvolta drammatica ,di quegli agenti di trasmissione della antica tradizione agricola ma anche silvestre-pastorale che operavano in seno alle comunità contadine e dei cosiddetti angoli oscuri del continente (valli alpine, paludi, foreste ecc.). Detentrici informali di poteri carismatici (fattucchiere, strologhe, conciaosse, erbarie ecc.), spesso avanti con gli anni , riconoscibili culturalmente per specifiche caratteristiche (l’essere ad esempio nate la notte di Natale), per secoli rispettate e tutelate nei villaggi, si trovarono nell’occhio di una drammatica epurazione con cui fu eliminato ogni retaggio delle preesistenti tradizioni che impediva la piena realizzazione del progetto di società cristiana e urbana, e dunque l’omologazione di ogni suo membro al nuovo ordine morale e culturale. Le vecchie……
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