Italian Shamanism
A living Priestess tradition

Before Rome, the Italian peninsula was a crossroads of Etruscans, Illyrians, Celts, and Samnites — each with their own rites and devotion to the divine feminine. When witch-hunts arrived, these Old Ways went underground. Goddesses wore Catholic names; healers became “folk magicians.” What seemed lost was only hidden, waiting to be remembered. 
Out of this hidden current flows one unbroken matrilineal line:

Michela Chiarelli
Seventh-generation Priestess. Last hereditary Shaman/Medicine Woman of her house.

Born with second sight and initiated first by the four Elements, Michela was trained by her grandmother, Nonna Malva — a village healer who prayed to Isis behind a Marian veil. She later learned from scattered Priestesses across Calabria and Greece, each guarding fragments of the ancient Mediterranean Mother cult.

Michela carries formulas, songs, and bone-healing rites untouched by academic reconstruction or modern reinterpretation. In her family, the title passed only to women. As the last of her line, her writings and creations are now the living vessel that preserves the spiritual and esoteric heritage of Italy.

Recognized by contemporary scholars, she is cited as a living practitioner of Italian indigenous shamanism in Dr. Angela Puca’s 2024 monograph Italian Witchcraft and Shamanism: The Tradition of Segnature. Through her lineage, Italy’s complex, indigenous, and profound spirituality — shaped over millennia — remains alive and accessible today.