King
The King is an elf who sits on a throne in Benevento with the Queen. He is described as a red-coloured teenage boy. The Ensign told the fisherwife that if she fell to her knees in front of the King and Queen of the elves and gave them allegiance, they would give her riches, beauty and handsome men, with whom she could have sex, and that she was not to worship God or the holy Virgin.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 1500 CE
- Attested period
- 1500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in a 1588 Sicilian Inquisition trial.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Queen
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“On one was a red teenage boy and on the other a beautiful woman, whom the called the Queen, and the man was the king. The first time she came there — she was eight — the "ensign" and the other women in her company told her that she must kneel and worship the king and the queen”
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“At the beginning of the three-day festival, a feral goat is brought into the town and crowned "king", while a local girl is crowned "queen".”
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