Aradia, The Gospel of the Witches

25 August 2021: Treadwells Online: Charles Leland’s 1899 classic Aradia, The Gospel of the Witches is an exuberant, alluring Italian text whose goddess passages have influenced modern Wiccan ideas. It also includes spells, incantations, myths and incovations allegedly from the Strega tradition and these certinly come from Italian folk magic practices of the time. Suzanne…

Witch Familiars

 26 August 2021: online mini workshop at Treadwells online English belief in the pre-modern period featured the idea of witches’ familiars, spirits which took the form of animals which were domestic pets. The familiars would assist witches in their magic, doing their bidding. In this workshop, Suzanne Corbie explores the evidence in historical records which…