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Odds and Ends => Etcetera => Topic started by: Barnaby_McEwan on May 01, 2007, 06:43:38 am
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Mentioned in another thread (http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1161.0) recently. Fifteen years after repaying Passamaquoddy people's hospitality by falsifying their spirituality to suit his own needs (http://www.stu.ca/~parkhill/19th.htm), he published what has become one of the founding texts of Wicca: Aradia, Or the Gospel of the Witches.
He maintained that his book was a translation of the main religious document of a cult of Italian witches surviving entirely un-noticed since pre-Christian times - until a mysterious personage known only as Maddalena decided to confide everything in an elderly American journalist. See, as always, Ronald Hutton's Triumph of the Moon for an empathetic but damning overview.
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He maintained that his book was a translation of the main religious document of a cult of Italian witches surviving entirely un-noticed since pre-Christian times - until a mysterious personage known only as Maddalena decided to confide everything in an elderly American journalist.
Gosh Barnaby, are you sure this shouldn't be in the comedy section? ;D
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If a man will misrepresent people who are still here, and talked to him, I don't see why he wouldn't just flat out lie about there being an Italian coven. Or maybe he did to them what he did to the Passamoquoddy.
I haven't read his book. Tell me, does he repeat the one about a Europe-wide witch-cult? (An unfortunate number of modern pagans do believe in that one, despite plenty of historical evidence that pre-Christian peoples had many different religious beliefs. Margaret Murray did neo-pagans no favors.)