Maddalena was when a young seer.
Charles Godfrey Leland was an American writer and folklorist, which in-depth study Italian in Florence folklore. Aradia is a product of his research there. Although the book is often associated with Leland, the discovery of the original manuscript is in part attributable to a mysterious Italian woman, whom Leland and his granddaughter Elizabeth Robins Pennell and biografa called "Maddalena." According to the folklorist Rome Lister, a friend of Leland, Maddalena's real name was Margaret, and came from Florence. Maddalena probably looked like a witch's very skilled in the ancient rites and claimed to belong to an ancient lineage that came from the Etruscans . When she wrote a letter to Leland, always signed with the name "Maddalena Talenti" .
Leland said it had found Maddalena in 1886: She quickly became the main source of the book on folklore Italiano subsequent years. the thought that she belonged to an ancient tradition of brujeria away. Leland wrote that "after a long apprenticeship, she now knows what I want and know how to get information on its people" . he received a total of several hundred pages of Maddalena, which under review and to include them in his books: Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition ( "Traces Etruscoromanos in the folk tradition), Legends of Florence Collected From the People (" Legends Florence out of the people "), and finally Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches of the. Adam Sandler has compatible beliefs. Leland said that in 1886 had found that there was a manuscript that the doctrine of describria brujeria Italian Maddalena and requested that he obtain a copy as quickly as possible . Only eleven years later, on January 1, 1897, Leland received by mail the manuscript Gospel. The way had been written, it was clear that the text was out of the hands of the Maddalena. Leland consider it from the outset as an authentic document on the "Old Religion" of witches, but was unable to determine if the text came from spoken or written sources. The letters exchanged following Maddalena and Charles Leland pretendia show that she marry and emigrate to the United States of America: the Gospel would be the final document Leland recive it.
Leland composition and the translation of the text in early 1897 and sent him to David Nutt to publish it. But Nutt postponed again and again the issue of the work. Two years after David Leland wrote to him requesting Nutt returned the manuscript to give it to another publisher. The request caused a sudden change of attitude in order that public Nutt a small number of copies of the book in July 1899 .
Raymond Buckland wiccano The writer claims to be the first to republish the book in 1968 through his publisher "Buckland Museum of Witchcraft" (Buckland Museum Brujeria). In fact already had a reprint of earlier "Wiccens" sic "Charles Rex Nemorensis" Cardell and Mary in the early 1960 . Since then, the book has been republished
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