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For the Santas I bring you the Badalisc. It's like a muppet version of the Krampus from the Italian Alps. He gives a rhyming speech in the townsquare that gossips about all sinful behavior that happened in community during the past year.

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Another Librum Prodigiosum creature! The Badalisc, from Italian folklore! Said to live in the forest around the village of Andrista, this beast is a nuisance who harasses villagers and during Epiphany a young woman lures the monster into the village square where it is captured and reveals the sins of the villagers before being released back into the forest!

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The Badalisc is a monster from Italian folklore, said to live in the woods around the village of Andrista, in the commune of Cevo. It has goat-like skin, small horns and glowing eyes.

The Badalisc is a nuisance, coming into the village to harass the residents. An annual celebration is held during Epiphany, in which a representation of the creature is lured in by a young woman and captured by the men of the village. The Badalisc is brought into the village square and reveals the sins of the villagers, before being released back into the woods.

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According to legend the Badalisc lives in the woods around the village of Andrista (commune of Cevo) and is supposed to annoy the community: each year it is captured during the period of Epiphany (5 & 6 January) and led on a rope into the village by musicians and masked characters, including il giovane (the young man), il vecchio (the old man), la vecchia (the old woman) and the young signorina, who is "bait" for the animal's lust. There are also some old witches, who beat drums, and bearded shepherds, and a hunchback (un torvo gobetto) who has a "rustic duel" with the animal. Traditionally only men take part, although some are dressed as women. In ancient times women were prohibited from participating in the exhibition, or even to see or hear the Badalisc's Speech; if they did so they would be denied Holy Communion the following day.

In the village square (formerly in a stable) the Badalisc's speech (la 'ntifunada) is read, in which the mythological animal gossips about the community. The Badalisc itself is a dumb creature, so the speech, nowadays written in rhyme, is read by an "interpreter". Once improvised, now written in advance, the speech reveals all the supposed sins and scheming of the community. During the speech the hunchback bangs his stick rhythmically at intervals.

The speech is followed by singing, dancing and feasting. In the evening the community eats the "Badalisc polenta" (a commercial version of this traditional food was launched in 2010). Until recently, village children would beg from house to house during the Badalisc celebrations for cornmeal to make the polenta; a Badalisc salami was also specially made for them. The badalisc has a place of honour at the feasts.

On the second day, at the end of the exhibition, the Badalisc is set free and allowed to return to the woods.

The ritual has strong similarities with the Bosinada, Bosinade or Businade, satirical performances of prose, poetry or song, in which a storyteller (the Bosin) denounced the misdeeds of the community. Known from the 16th century, these were once widespread throughout northern Italy and derived from the purification rituals of New Year's Eve. Any link between the Badalisk of Andrista and the mythical Basilisk (half lizard, half serpent, with a head like a cat, but squarer, like a toad) that incinerates everything on which it rests its gaze (well known in Cevo and elsewhere in northern Italy) is unclear.