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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.
While researching regional folklore in Tuscany during the late 19th
Century, American folklorist Charles Leland was given a hand
written document, the "Vangel," by a mysterious woman named
Maddelena. Allegedly, this was the last recorded remnants of an
ancient Roman folk witchcraft religion. The autheniticity of
"Aradia" has always been questioned, but this book undoubtedly
contains at least a few grains of Truth about the subject, and this
book has without question influenced and shaped the modern
neo-pagan movement.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1875 Edition.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
THIS IS A WITCHCRAFT COOL COLLECTOR'S EDITION - PRINTED IN REALLY
COOL MODERN GOTHIC FONTS THROUGHOUT. CHECK IT OUT WITH THE AMAZON
SEARCH INSIDE FEATURE. This is the original Witches Bible.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Many books and innumerable articles have been published on the
subject of "Westerns" since 1960, but the emphasis has been almost
entirely on Western movies. Not much attention has been paid to the
fiction of and about the American West. This book begins with the
assumption that the novel of the West is a sort of autobiography of
the West and that the writing must be studied if we are to see what
our fiction reveals about ourselves. In these eleven essays C. L.
Sonnichsen looks at both popular and "serious" fiction, starting
with a consideration of what the West means to America and the
world and going on to discuss a number of topics that act as
mirrors to our prejudices and emotions. What does our fiction show
has happened to our feelings about the Mexican over the last
century? About violence? About sex? About the mythical West? The
author's final chapter suggests other doors that should be
opened--other topics of Western fiction that should be investigated
and discussed. In scope and variety of approaches this book is
unique. Some chapters will provoke heated disagreement, but the
subject is timely. Nothing is more interesting to us than
ourselves, and these essays tell something about who and what we
are.
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