Aradia. Gospel of the Witches. de Leland, Charles Godrey, 1824-1903 - 1990

Softcover. xv, 133 pages; 18 cm. Reprinted from the 1890 edition. "The result of a ten-year friendship between Leland and Madellana, a semi-literate peasant woman born of an Italian witch family... a picture emerges of an ancient and secret cult, La Vecchia Religione--The Old Religion-- with its distinctive beliefs and practices." "There are old people in the Romagna of the North who know the Etruscan names of the Twelve Gods and the invocations to Bacchus, Jupiter and Venus, Mercury and the Lares or ancestral spirits, and in the cities are women who prepare strange amulets, over which they mutter spells, all known in the old Roman time... Diana is the Goddess, her daughter Aradia (or Herodias) the female Messiah.' New paperback. Stock#23291x/h.