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To: alt.magick.tyagi,talk.religion.misc,alt.pagan,alt.lucky.w,alt.witchcraft From: nagasiva@luckymojo.com (lorax666) Subject: Re: Aradia Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:32:03 GMT 50000224 IVom saturnerin@aol.comMergirl (SaturnErin): >Whats Aradia? Never heard of it... "Aradia, the Gospel of the Witches" is a text supposedly translated by Charles Leland that purports to be a kind of 'Book of Shadows' amongst Italian Witches (strega). Its authenticity is skeptically regarded by anthropologists (Leland did other work on Etruscans which is more popular, but he is still considered a suspect source; the woman whom he describes as providing this book may have constructed it herself). Modern witches have taken Leland's and Margaret Murray's works (an Egyptologist who wrote a book purporting to be about European pagan survivals in the form of particular cultures) and used them to construct a kind of mythological history from which they can trace untained roots back to the dawn of time. it is quite cute. you can get some good information on all of this in Margot Adler's "Drawing Down the Moon". Adler is a reporter from NPR and has a history with Neopagan culture. blessed beast! lorax666 -- mailto:nagasiva@luckymojo.com ; http://www.luckymojo.com/nagasiva.html mailto:boboroshi@satanservice.org ; http://www.satanservice.org/ emailed replies may be posted; cc replies if response desired
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