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Aradia or The Gospel of the Witches (Paperback)
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Aradia or The Gospel of the Witches (Paperback)
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Loot Price R260
Discovery Miles 2 600
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The text is a composite. Some of it is Leland's translation into
English of an original Italian manuscript, the Vangelo (gospel).
Leland reported receiving the manuscript from his primary informant
on Italian witchcraft beliefs, a woman Leland referred to as
"Maddalena" and whom he called his "witch informant" in Italy. The
rest of the material comes from Leland's research on Italian
folklore and traditions, including other related material from
Maddalena. Leland had been informed of the Vangelo's existence in
1886, but it took Maddalena eleven years to provide him with a
copy. After translating and editing the material, it took another
two years for the book to be published. Its fifteen chapters
portray the origins, beliefs, rituals and spells of an Italian
pagan witchcraft tradition. The central figure of that religion is
the goddess Aradia, who came to Earth to teach the practice of
witchcraft to peasants in order for them to oppose their feudal
oppressors and the Catholic Church. Leland was born to Charles
Leland, a commission merchant, and Charlotte Godfrey August 15,
1824 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Shortly after his birth,
Leland's nurse took the child to the family attic and performed a
ritual on him involving a Bible, a key, a knife, lighted candles,
money and salt to ensure a long life as a "scholar and a wizard," a
fact which Leland's biographers have commented upon as
foreshadowing his interest in folk traditions and magic. Leland
worked in journalism, travelled extensively, and became interested
in folklore and folk linguistics, publishing books and articles on
American and European languages and folk traditions. By the end of
his life shortly after the turn of the century, Leland had worked
in a wide variety of trades, achieved recognition as the author of
the comic Hans Breitmann's Ballads, fought in two conflicts, and
had written what was to become a primary source text for
Neopaganism half a century later, Aradia, or the Gospel of the
Witches.
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