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The asphodel is the flower of Mazzeri - hunters of the dead or souls. The mazzeru is linked to the world of death. If the Inquisition burned witches, never mazzeri because it is God's gift to the Church. A curse for some who live in this daily hunt. For the Mazzeru hunt at night. It is not out of the house physically, he hunts by sleeping. Armed, in general, a stick (A mazza). It tracks an animal to kill it. When the animal falls, approaching mazzeru for reversal, it is at this point, the animal turns into a person. She died within 3 days to one year, the part where the aura mazzeru reached. The mazzeru sometimes can release its prey, for example, whether he admits one of his own in the beast, it will survive but survive a serious illness. At the time, hunting, mazzeru the soul separates from the body of the person who must die. This is the mazzeru acciacadori. Certain mazzeru, the most powerful have the gift of sealing blood and thus heal the person they are called mazzeri Salvatore.
The mazzeru hunting as in life. This post is near a river where animals come to drink or cross. Water has always been a symbolic element.
In life, people mazzeri are soft to the eyes, they see through you. It is also said that they are always melancholy because of the weight they carry.
Previously, each village had its mazzeru or mazzeri. The relationship with nature is important, as in shamanism. This link disappears, there is little Mazzeru. At least they are not initiated by a mazzerone or capistregone, mazzeri with great authority. It is not thrilled over the fact of modernism. Some are still able to dream of death and proclaim - but they still drive like mazzeri.

Once a year, on the night of 31 July to 1 August, mazzeri valley of the same battle on a hill to determine the quota of deaths in their villages. This is the "mandrache. The asphodel is their weapon. In the island, it is called fiore di morti ", the flower of the dead. It is not surprising that it is associated with mazzerisme because it has dual function: it has a resisting force to death, struggled against the disease and prospered in a nearly sterile soil. On the other hand, it ate the dead and honoring the dead, raised to the rank of gods and heroes (fields Élysée Greek).
The mazzeri killed during the madrache were sentenced to die in the year.
The night of July 31, fires were lit in the villages to remove the dead were placed instruments also placed above doors or windows.

How does one become a Mazzeru? one is predisposed or insider. It is essential to have a psychic gift because the initiation is by the dream. The commitment is irrevocable, the break is to die. The mal-baptized may become mazzeri called by a mazzeru. To escape this call, it must be re-baptized. Most often we talk about heredity. The mazzeru initiates a member of his family that he saw the gift.

Some choose to liberate themselves by showing they are mazzeri throughout the community present at the mass.