1990, ISBN: 8c9dda18f2902d20ed32661e1a0b9c1d

Custer, WA, Phoenix Publishing, 1990. Soft Cover. xv, 133 p.; 18 cm. Reprinted from the 1890 edition. "The result of a ten-year friendship between Leland and Madellana, a semi-liter… Mehr…

Custer, WA, Phoenix Publishing, 1990. Soft Cover. xv, 133 p.; 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., Custer, WA, Phoenix Publishing, 1990, 0<

1971, ISBN: 8c9dda18f2902d20ed32661e1a0b9c1d

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[SC: 36.8], [PU: Hero Press, New York], OCCULT, Jacket, First Edition (Reprint). Staplebound. Originally published in 1899, Leland composed a definitive treatise of Italian magical folklo… Mehr…

[SC: 36.8], [PU: Hero Press, New York], OCCULT, Jacket, First Edition (Reprint). Staplebound. Originally published in 1899, Leland composed a definitive treatise of Italian magical folklore, charms and sorcery, manifesting the Strega tradition of magic. Charles G. Leland's Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches is one of the primary source-texts for the witchcraft revival in the 1950s and 1960s, influencing Gardner, Buckland, and eventually Martello. Reprinted and edited for easy accessibility by Hero Press in zine ledger format. Formerly owned by Dr. Leo Louis Martello. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Very minimal sunning and minimal dampstaining on verso cover, otherwise clean. Black on white cardstock pictorial wrappers. Ledger. 36pp. plus Illus. advert. (b/w).<