Book on strega tradition

[Romez]

Hello,
I was curious about the Strega (sp) tradition, the italian witchcraft, and I was wondering if anyone can recommend a good book to start off with?
thank you

[Nahemah]

http://www.occultforum.org/forum/viewto ... ia#p457225

Look here.

My own advice: stay away from Grimassi and others of that ilk.

It's Wicca with Italianate influences: to wit,Stregheria is a modern invention,whereas Strega simply means witch.....and It's easy,oh so easy,actually. to confuse or conflate the two. [thumbup]

Delve into the social anthrology and folklore.Mental shoe leather will be worn out quickly doing so,but it's worth it. [grin]

This:

http://www.italiansrus.com/articles/subs/folkmagic.htm

And this:

The World of Witches by Julio Baroja.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Witches-J ... 1842122428

[Romez]

Thank you very much for the answer, will definitely look into that

[kiss_lamia]

Hello,
I was curious about the Strega (sp) tradition, the italian witchcraft, and I was wondering if anyone can recommend a good book to start off with?
thank you

Aradia the gospel of the witches is worth a read heres a pdf version http://www.thewica.co.uk/Aradia.pdf

[Asurendra]

An interesting work on this subject is 'Etruscan Magic and Occult Remedies' by Charles Godfrey Leland

http://www.amazon.com/Etruscan-Occult-R ... 1161404449

He went around Northern Italy in the early 20th Century and talked to all the old stregas he could find!

[Romez]

ok will do thank you very much for the suggestion

[kiss_lamia]

ok will do thank you very much for the suggestion

Oh and you might find this useful as a starting point for researching etruscan mythological figures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Et ... al_figures

[Asurendra]

I forgot this book, it is another good one in my library. It deals more generally with the Classical World but much of that was carried over in specifically Italian folk magic. Here is a free PDF edition:

http://historiantigua.cl/wp-content/upl ... _Texts.pdf