Aradia
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Aradia is one of the principal figures in the American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland's 1899 work Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, which he believed to be a genuine religious text used by a group of pagan witches in Tuscany, a claim that has subsequently been disputed by other folklorists and historians. In Leland's Gospel, Aradia is portrayed as a messiah who was sent to Earth in order to teach peasants how to use sorcery as an instrument to liberate themselves from powerful and oppressive social institutions and classes, specifically the Roman Catholic Church and upper class landhold
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Messiah
- Gender
- female
- Father
- Phosphorus
- Mother
- Diana
- Religion
- Stregheria
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- present in work
- Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
- from narrative universe
- folklore of Italy
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Aradia è una figura del folklore europeo, una figura mitica divenuta maggiormente nota per il lavoro di studio del folclorista statunitense Charles Godfrey Leland in Aradia, o il Vangelo delle Streghe (1899). Aradia è presentata in tale testo come la figlia messianica della dea Diana, venuta sulla Terra per insegnare ai poveri e agli oppressi la stregoneria, come mezzo di resistenza sociale. Aradia è divenuta una figura importante nella wicca, nella stregheria e in altre forme di neopaganesimo.
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