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Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches - A Classic Study of Italian Witchcraft, Folklore, and Pagan Traditions
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617202681
Publisher: Sublime Books
Published: Feb 20 2011
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Charles G. Leland's Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches is one of the most influential and controversial texts in the modern history of witchcraft, folklore, paganism, and occult religion.
First published in 1899, Aradia presents what Leland believed to be a surviving body of Italian witchcraft tradition centred on the goddess Diana and her daughter Aradia. Drawing on material he said was supplied by an Italian informant, often identified as Maddalena, Leland offered the book as a record of rites, myths, charms, invocations, and beliefs connected with a hidden witch tradition in Tuscany. Whether read as folklore, esoteric religion, literary reconstruction, or disputed ethnographic evidence, the book has remained impossible to ignore.
Its historical claims have been debated by scholars, folklorists, and practitioners for more than a century. That debate is part of the book's importance. Aradia helped shape later ideas about witchcraft as a surviving pagan religion, influenced twentieth-century Wicca and modern Pagan thought, and gave readers one of the most striking goddess-centred mythic structures in occult literature. Its vision of Diana, Aradia, magic, rebellion, poverty, oppression, and forbidden worship gave the book a force well beyond its slim size.
This Sublime Books edition is suited to readers interested in witchcraft history, Italian folklore, Wicca, modern Paganism, goddess religion, occult studies, esoteric texts, and the complicated boundary between folklore collection and spiritual scripture.
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