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Aradia: Or Gospel of the Witches
 
 
Aradia: Or Gospel of the Witches (Paperback)
by Stewart Farrar (Foreword), Charles G. Leland (Author), Mario Pazzaglini (Author, Translator), Chas Clifton (Author), Robert Mathieson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Phoenix Publishing Inc.,U.S.; New Ed edition (Aug 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0919345344
  • ISBN-13: 978-0919345348
  • Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 14.2 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
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When Charles Godfrey Leland published "Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches" at the end of the nineteenth century as the crowning product of his Italian researches of the 1880s and 1890s, he believed he was preserving what remained of an ancient but dying tradition before it was too late. He could not have known that in so doing he was providing one of the key source-books which would inspire a vigorous revival of the tradition half a century after his death. Had he been able to foresee it, he would have been astonished, probably amused, and almost certainly gratified; for in spite of the occasional Victorian caution with which he expressed himself, his research was clearly a labour of love.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Well researched and detailed work on the Aradia Manuscript., 30 Dec 2001
By Stephen (WASHINGTON, Tyne Wear United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This book is a very well researched work upon the subject of the Aradia manuscript - the editors are very well acquainted with the dialects of the Romagna, essential for the proper translation of the work - this volume gives a number of translations alongside the Italian and ends with a new version which does shed more light on this ancient work. Aradia has been gathered from many different sources and is properly a compendium of chants probably handed down from Etruscan times. The book includes other collected works not included in the Aradia manuscript. This volume is very scholarly - it is a serious work far removed from the usual popular "potted history" books. The more serious students of Wicca and Witchcraft will find this volume of great interest - it needs patience - but what worthwhile persuit does not. I recommend this book and its companion Etruscan Roman Remains to all who would seek to know more about the very earliest foundations of the modern Wiccan Movement.
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Steve
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2.0 out of 5 stars A work of entertainment, 3 Jun 2004
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No doubt it's a fun book to read. And it is certainly an important book in the history of modern paganism: it's a prop for those arrogating the seniority of "ancient wisdom" to Wicca. But let's not distract ourselves with claims that this is a convincing work of scholarship. It isn't. It was largely a concoction by Leland himself. Certainly his gloss or spin is paramount. While it has at its core a fascinating set of folklore about Italian rural people's beliefs about witches, it does not present historical evidence of "traditional witchcraft". Wicca began in the 50s; its antecedence is far more complex, and interesting, than the facile, naive myth of unbroken descent from the neolithic which that delightful trickster Gardner and his acolytes propagandised.
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