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Title: Aradia: Gospel of the Witches by Charles Godfrey Leland ISBN: 0-919345-10-7 Publisher: Phoenix Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.04 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A rare, authentic gem of "stregheria" -- Italian Witchcraft.
Comment: Contrary to the impression given by superficial debunkers of Witchcraft, Charles Godfrey Leland was a 19th-century scholar of broad learning and solid reputation. He was famous in his lifetime for his groundbreaking researches into Gypsy and British "tinker" lore and culture; for discovering the "Shelta" language surviving in western Britain; for identifying the survival of Etruscan deity-names in Tuscan peasant lore; even for instituting "industrial arts" education in America and Europe ... all this *before* he found what anyone else who looked in the wilder corners of Europe a hundred years ago still found: a surviving outpost of the Old Religion. ("Pagan" means "country-dweller", after all.) Northern Italy was notorious during the Burning Times for the stubborn resistance of its Witches -- centuries before, Tuscany had been the home of the Etruscans, who taught the Romans magic and religion.
An excellent book. But remember -- the European witch-lore that survives in print for library-bound scholars to pontificate about is only the tip of a very widespread folk and oral iceberg.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Origins of Modern Witchcraft
Comment: This book, written in the late 1800's, is the answer to those in the Craft who believe all modern witchcraft stems from Gerald Gardener. It is clear from this book that although Doreen Valiente is credited with the Charge of the Goddess and other staples of modern witchcraft, these credos had their origins in Strega, and Strega is witchcraft that has fragments that have survived from Etruscan times. Strega survived the Inquisition. (See "Night Battles.")
True, modern witchcraft has a strong connection to Gardener, Valiente, Crowley, Fortune and the Golden Dawn, which has its roots in Masonic practices. Gardnerian witchcraft is a hybrid religious practice, and even Gerald Gardener never made any claims to the contrary.
The newer version, edited by an Itallian folklorist, claims that the original Italian-English translation misinterprets some idioms and that may be true. In order to keep the meter and rhyme of the verse, some poetic license had to have been taken, and in looking at the Italian, I think that this is probable. I have not yet read the newer version, but look forward to doing so for the editorial comments. This book is a must for any British traditionalist.
Rating: 1
Summary: Why do witches give this praise?
Comment: I have been a witch over 13 years and I am a big fan of Charles Leland. This book I am not. It has very little truth to it. Mr. Leland got the text from someone who wanted to abuse the craft with lies. This is a Christian book. That is put in a way to please the church. Witches do not belive in satan, though to this book. The horned god is satan himself. Aradia is said to make comments that would have gotten her killed on the spot. I NEVER threaten the goddess. Again we have many areas saying we do this. There is not enough room to go through it all. You can get free copies from websites all over if you must read it. If you do think about what it is saying and you can easy see it for what it is. A preverted vesion of what should of been sacred.
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Title: Etruscan Roman Remains by Charles Godfrey Leland ISBN: 0919345298 Publisher: Phoenix Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Italian Witchcraft: The Old Religion of Southern Europe by Raven Grimassi, Matthew Segaard ISBN: 1567182593 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The White Goddess : A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves ISBN: 0374504938 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1966 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Witchcraft for Tomorrow by Doreen Valiente ISBN: 0919345832 Publisher: Phoenix Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: A Witches' Bible: The Complete Witches Handbook by Janet Farrar, Stewart Farrar ISBN: 0919345921 Publisher: Phoenix Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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