Cultural and Religious Framing of Eruptions in the Etna Region (Southern Italy): The Implications for Geoheritage

1 The words legend and myth, although prominent in the older anthropological and geological literature are not used in this article because in many societies including southern Italy, they are considered both inaccurate and pejorative.We use the term culturally grounded traditions or the well-established term folklore (Baldick 2015).By extension we also avoid the term geomyth.Introduced by