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	ARADIA - THE GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES
		With it are given the ceremonies and invocations or incantations to be addressed to Diana and Aradia, the exorcism of Cain, and the spells of the holy-stone, rue, and verbena, constituting, as the text declares, the regular church-service, so to speak, which is to be chanted or pronounced at the witch meetings.
		This is the Gospel (Vangelo)of the Witches: DIANA greatly loved her brother LUCIFER, the god of the Sun and of the Moon, the god of Light (Splendor), who was so proud of his beauty, and who for his pride was driven from Paradise.
		The Gospel of the Witches, as I have given it, is in reality only the initial chapter of the collection of ceremonies, incantations, and traditions current in the fraternity or sisterhood, the whole of which are in the main to be found in my Etruscan Roman Remains and Florentine Legends.
	www.beyondweird.com /witches.html (15055 words)

	Book Review: Aradia
		There is no "gospel of the witches," as the phrase itself implies a strict, centralized scriptural authority to which a localized oral tradition would not subscribe.
		A brief, roughly sketched mythology tells of an alternate savior: Aradia (or Herodias), who is the daughter of the goddess Diana, and her brother the Sun or Lucifer.
		The figure of Aradia, along with her charge to gather and worship the goddess, were imported into modern witchcraft with the 1949 publication of Gerald Gardner's highly influential "Wiccan textbook," Book of Shadows.
	www.esoteric.msu.edu /VolumeII/AradiaReview.html (1710 words)

	BOOK REVIEW: Aradia: Gospel of the Witches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Aradia is a short book containing translations of the stories and legends that Leland, an ethnographer, gathered from an old Iitalian woman/witch.
		Aradia, while not historically true, is part of the sacred history of Wicca.
		In the oral traditions regarding Aradia residing in the Old Religion of Italy, it is said that she lived and taught during the later half of the 14th century.
	www.sibyllinewicca.org /reviews/rev_b_aradia.htm (479 words)

	Book: Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches by Charles G. Leland
		The words (stories) have become Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches.
		Today, a great amount of debate exists over whether or not Aradia was an authentic representation of Italian Witchcraft at the time Leland published the manuscript.
		In fact, it is the foundation for one of the most powerful and well-known documents in modern Pagan lore, the Charge of the Goddess.
	www.abaxion.com /cp006.htm (260 words)

	Aradia: Gospel of the Witches Audio Book
		Aradia: Gospel of the Witches is now available as an audio book.
		Aradia: Gospel of the Witches was authored by Charles G. Leland and is narrated by Barbara Marciniak.
		Aradia: Gospel of the Witches is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
	www.audio-book.ws /books/aradia-gospel-witches.php (471 words)

	Madame Talbot's Death Books - Aradia: Gospel of the Witches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Aradia id one of the key sources of the Witchcraft revival, and yet, until now, it has been practically unobtainable.
		It was from Maddalena that he obtained the whole of the material of Aradia, and he describes how she gave it to him in the Preface and Appendix.
		Here is the completely unabridged gospel for the self development of the witch and the coven.
	www.madametalbot.com /pix/witches/witchbook2.htm (152 words)

	Aradia: Gospel of the Witches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Use this work with caution, and be mindful of the threefold law if you attempt to use any of the incantations; namely the ones outlined in chapters 4 and 5.
		Aradia is said to make comments that would have gotten her killed on the spot.
		The Gospel of witches is something to truly read.
	www.nonfictionweb.com /Aradia_Gospel_of_the_Witches_0919345107.html (314 words)

	Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches (paperback book, original edition plus new translation) by Charles G. Leland; ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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 doing so he was providing one of the key sourcebooks which would inspire a vigorous revival of that tradition half a century after his death.
		He writes on the origins of Aradia, including the culture and religion of the area, as well as the difficulties involved in retranslating the book.
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	Bücher : Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches - Charles Godfrey Leland - A. J. Drew - kaufen im Shop, Test's, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Pagan Forums - A Saint, a Pagan Goddess, 6 Bishops and a Tree
		Leland replaces the hideous witches with a 'beautiful lady,' who had a 'small white hand' and a 'soft sweet voice.' [39] In Piperno's text demons are expelled from the tree, not by Saint Nicholas, but the local hero Barbatus who continues his work against idolatry.
		The use of specifically Florentine Italian when the manuscript supposedly came from witches in the Romagna, the language which is soundly 19th century, the grammatical errors which are typical of an English-speaker and the thinly veiled call for class consciousness in marxist fashion are all dead giveaways of a hoax.
		Witches had no temples, therefore they were practicing "illicit religion." But it is noteworthy that Witches are mentioned regarding religion itself.
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	Amazon.com: Books: Witch Alone: Thirteen Moons to Master Natural Magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A WITCH ALONE is comparable to works by Rae Beth (Hedge Witch), who is also English, and the late Scott Cunningham (Solitary Witch), and addresses the needs of those who follow an more or less eclectic path of their own making.
		Sections of her book explore the cumulative knowledge of other witches covering such topics as the healing arts, Moon magic, divination and dowsing, and the ancient wisdom passed along from the elders.
		She teaches how to be a witch in 13 moon which is a good idea and she has some great excersizes and ideas but she teaches her way of being a witch.
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	Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches (paperback book) by Charles G. Leland; with a modern introduction & commentary by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches (paperback book) by Charles G. Leland; with a modern introduction & commentary by A.J. Drew
		After years of trying, he met one by the name of Maddelena, who imparted to him the secrets for which he was searching.
		While it is true that Maddelena's involvement with Leland cannot be proven, the fact remains that, even with its uncertain origin, Aradia is one of the most important manuscripts available to the Pagan community.
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	Aradia - Gospel of the Witches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Charles Godfrey Leland published Aradia at the end of the nineteenth century he did not realize that he was providing the key source-book which would be the missing link between ancient and modern witchcraft.
		When Gardner gave her the responsibility for rewriting some of their coven's key rituals, she took Leland's translation of Aradia and, using it for inspiration, wrote the now standard version of the "Charge of the Goddess" which is one of the most important rituals in modern Wicca.
		At this one hundredth anniversary of its first publication, Aradia continues forward, valued even today by the wisest followers of the "new" old religion.
	www.kittsdream.com /Books/aradia.htm (182 words)

	The Gifts of Aradia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the fourteenth century, Aradia taught that the traditional powers of a witch would belong to any who followed in the ways of the Old Religion.
		Aradia called these powers gifts, because she stressed the point that these powers were the benefits of adhering to the Old Ways, and not the reason for becoming a witch.
		Aradia taught that a witch must observe the Seasonal Rites and the time of the Full Moon, in order to keep these powers.
	www.fabrisia.com /gifts.htm (137 words)

	Aradia Women's Health Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		With the support of our donors, Aradia Women's Health Center is able to provide women with access to safe, supportive reproductive care regardless of their income level.
		Aradia Women's Health Center is not a United Way agency.
		When you designate Aradia Women's Health Center as your chosen cause, a portion of your purchase will be donated to Aradia.
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	IAmAWitch.Com Portal: Aradia Queen of the Witches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Aradia or The Gospel of the Witches" is a classical text that strongly influenced the re-emergence of WitchCraft in the modern day.
		The story goes that Charles Leland, a scholar who lived a life with an interest in gypsies and mystical matters which arose from having had a ritual performed on him at birth by a Dutch nurse, who uses candles, salt, and money to help him rise in life and to be lucky.
		In the late 1890s, Leland began his work on formalizing "Aradia" and his work became one of the only books every continuously published for 100 years or more.
	www.iamawitch.com /article.php?story=20041003141740371&mode=print (307 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - 'Aradia' or 'The Gospel of the Witches' by Charles G Leland
		BBC - h2g2 - 'Aradia' or 'The Gospel of the Witches' by Charles G Leland
		Aradia or The Gospel of the Witches is a book written by Charles G Leland (1824-1903) at the end of the 19th Century.
		Leyland's book tells the story of Diana, 'Queen of all the Witches', and goddess of the moon who seduces her brother Lucifer, the god of the sun and gives birth to Aradia, whom she sends to earth to bring the 'Gospel of the Witches'.
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	The Aradia or The Gospel of the Witches Chapter 14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Aradia or The Gospel of the Witches Chapter 14
		The following tale was not given to me as connected with the Gospel of the Witches, but as Diana appears in it, and as the whole conception is that of Diana and Apollo in another form, I include it in the series.
		Therefore it was dedicated to Isis, the Moon Goddess." And for this reason the onion was so holy as to be regarded as having in itself something of deity; for which reason Juvenal remarks that the Egyptians were happy people to have gods growing in their gardens.
	www.ladythunder.com /aradia/chapter14.htm (434 words)

	Aradia - The Gospel of the Witches
		When Rorasa awoke in the morning, she found her self in another house, where all was far more magnificent, and having risen, a beautiful maid led her into another room, where she was dressed in a superb wedding-garment of white silk with diamonds, for it was her wedding-dress indeed.
		Diana is declared to be the protectress of all outcasts, those to whom the night is their day, consequently of thieves; and Laverna, as we may learn from Horace (Epistles, 16, 1) and Plautus, was preeminently the patroness of pilfering and all rascality.
		Aradia is evidently enough Herodias, who was regarded in the beginning as associated with Diana as chief of the witches.
	www.spelwerx.com /aradia.html (14986 words)

	Aradia Review (The Cauldron: A Pagan Forum)
		He says he first heard of the work in 1886 and she was finally able to provide him with a copy in 1897.
		While Maddalena could have obtained it from Italian witches, she could have had it written to please Leland or the like.
		While Drew's notes to Aradia are not nearly as bad as the Scofield Notes to the Bible, they could have been left out of this book without any loss of value.
	www.ecauldron.com /bkaradia2.php (484 words)

	Aradia - Gospel of the Witches
		With it are given the ceremonies and invocations or incantations to be addressed to Diana and Aradia, the exorcism of Cain, and the spells of the holy-stone, rue, and verbena, constituting, as the text declares, the regular church-service, so to speak, which is to be chanted or pronounced at the witch-meetings.
		There are also included the very curious incantations or benedictions of the honey, meal, and salt, or cakes of the witch-supper, which is curiously classical, and evidently a relic of the Roman
		I should, however, in justice to those who do care to explore dark and bewildering paths, explain clearly that witch-lore is hidden with most scrupulous care from all save a very few in Italy, just as it is among the Chippewa Medas or the Black Voodoo.
	www.tarot-decks.com /aradia.html (755 words)

	Advanced Titles - Aradia: Gospel of the Witches - WLP-CLBKAradia
		Aradia, Gospel of the Witches, a most influential and remarkable book, is the forerunner and one of the key sources of the modern Witchcraft revival...
		The work, written during the late 1800s, was the result of a 10-year friendship between Leland and Madellan, a semi-literate peasant woman born of an Italian witch family.
		By presenting a strange and interesting mixture of Italian Witchcraft doctrine, Aradia opened the door to a hidden world.
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	Discount Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches for sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Leland originally sought to contact practicing Italian witches: his contact with one Maddelena led to his understanding of witches in an 1800s world.
		But if it is not already on your shelf and you do not want to spend forty bucks for the long winded much expounded upon version, this is the one that should be there.
		Now there is a copy of Aradia that explains references within the book to Lucifer, the Devil, and other scary figures.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Aradia: Or Gospel of the Witches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Buy Aradia: Or Gospel of the Witches with Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witche...
		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.
		Aradia has been gathered from many different sources and is properly a compendium of chants probably handed down from Etruscan times.
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	The Magical Blend -- Aradia or the Gospel Of The Witches
		Wicca and Paganism : Aradia or the Gospel Of The Witches
		After years of trying Charles Leland met a practicing Italian witch by the name of Maddelena, who transmitted to him the teachings of Italian witchcraft.
		While it is true that Maddelena's involvement with Leland cannot be proven, the fact remains that even with an uncertain origin, Aradia is one of the most important manuscripts available to the Pagan community.
	www.themagicalblend.com /~magic/cgi-bin/cart.cgi/1564146790.html (255 words)

	Aradia: Gospel of the Witches
		There are also modern witches who model a lot of their practice on "Aradia." The works of Raven Grimassi, for instance, tend to draw a lot on "Aradia."
		There is some scholarly doubt though about the authenticity of "Aradia." Some authorities believe that Leland made up most of the material himself.
		Others believe Leland honestly believed the material was all authentic, and was fooled by his informant, Maddalena, who he attributes with supplying the information that was used to create "Aradia." Perhaps Maddalena did make it up herself, or perhaps her unnamed sources made it up.
	www.comparative-religion.com /forum/showthread.php?t=1905 (328 words)

	Witchcraft Bibliography
		Eight Sabbats for Witches and Rites for Birth, Marriage and Death.
		The Witches' Goddess: the Feminine Principle of Divinity.
		A comprehensive parenting guide for people of all faiths and beliefs, based on the Goddess tradition's appreciation of the Earth (the Goddess) and the view that life is a never-ending cycle of birth and death.
	www.cog.org /general/ibibli.html (776 words)

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		While it is true that Maddelena"s involvement with Leland cannot be proven, the fact remains that even with its uncertain origin, Aradia is one of the most important manuscripts available to the Pagan community.
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	Amazon.com: Books: Aradia: Gospel of the Witches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Aradia is a short little book containing translations of the words that Leland got from the old woman.
		It also advises witches to be naked in their rites, and after the feast is over to make love in the darkness.
		First published in 1890, Aradia is must reading for anyone who is studying pagan or Wiccan traditions.
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