Aradia: Gospel of the Witches

by Charles Godfrey Leland

Overview

This wonderful book describes the creation according to Italian witch-lore. We also read about the witch-meeting or sabbath (treguenda) and it contains many original magical recipes, like spells for love and good fortune. Diana is further connected to the Moon and the fairy world.

Where Leland's Etruscan Magic and Occult Remedies deals with the entire pantheon of old Italian gods and nature spirits, worshiped by the streghe, Aradia is focused on Diana or Tana, her daughter Aradia and Lucifer. Aradia, the queen of the Italian witches, or streghe is as Leland concludes: 'evidently enough Herodias, who was regarded in the beginning as associated with Diana as chief of the witches. This was not, as I opine, derived from the Herodias of the New Testament, but from an earlier replica of Lilith, bearing the same name.'

VAMzzz Publishing revised this book with a Post Scriptum, containing biographical info on Charles Godfrey Leland, his witch-informant Maddalena and historical proof the witch-tradition is indeed linked to 2000 years of Diana worship. Preview on www.vamzzz.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789492355010
Publisher:	Vamzzz Publishing
Publication date:	03/01/2016
Pages:	174
Sales rank:	892,585
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Biography is included in the book.

Table of Contents

PREFACE 7
CHAPTER I How Diana Gave Birth to Aradia (Herodias) 12
CHAPTER II The Sabbat: Treguenda or Witch-Meeting - How to Consecrate the Supper - 21
CHAPTER III How Diana Made the Stars and the Rain 33
CHAPTER IV The Charm of the Stones Consecrated to Diana 37
CHAPTER V The Conjuration of the Lemon and Pins 45
CHAPTER VI A Spell To Win Love 51
CHAPTER VII To Find or Buy Anything, or to Have Good Fortune Thereby 55
CHAPTER VIII To Have a Good Vintage and Very Good Wine by the Aid of Diana 61
CHAPTER IX Tana and Endamone, Diana and Endymion 67
CHAPTER X Madonna Diana 77
CHAPTER XI The House of the Wind 81
CHAPTER XII Tana, The Moon-Goddess 89
CHAPTER XIII Diana and the Children 95
CHAPTER XIV The Goblin Messengers of Diana and Mercury 103
CHAPTER XV Laverna 107
APPENDIX 117
Comments on the Foregoing Texts 119
The Children of Diana, or How the Fairies Were Born 137
Diana, Queen of the Serpents, Giver of the Gift of Languages 143
Post Scriptum