Aradia: Or, The Gospel of the Witches |
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aiuto altra amore ancient andare Aradia beautiful Diana bella Diana Bevo buona fortuna cast ceremony CHAPTER CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Church classic colla conjure thee cosi curious darkness daughter deity earth Endamone Endymion Etruscan evil fact Fairy Diana farai fare farei Fata Diana favour firefly folk-lore fortune Gianni girl give goddess gods Gospel grace grant grazia heaven Herodias hidden horn incantation Invocation invoked Italian Italy Laverna Legends of Florence lemon letto light lontano lore Lucciola Lucifer Luna Madonna magic mandera Melambo mezza moon mother night notte pins possa potrai pray thee prayer prego priest Queen Romagna Roman salt sangue saro Scongiurazione scongiuro secret sempre siei sleep sorcery spell spirit strange strege Tana thou art thou shalt Thou who art thou wilt tradition uncon unto Vangelo verbena vervain vino Virgil voglio wine witch witchcraft wizards woman young lady Zingari
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Page 45 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 56 - There is a dangerous silence in that hour, A stillness which leaves room for the full soul To open all itself, without the power Of calling wholly back its self-control; The silver light which, hallowing tree and tower, Sheds beauty and deep softness o'er the whole Breathes also to the heart, and o'er it throws A loving languor, which is not repose.
Page 70 - God! who art never out of hearing, O may he never more be warm!' The cold, cold moon above her head, Thus on her knees did Goody pray; Young Harry heard what she had said: And icy cold he turned away.
Page 7 - Or in a forest altogether join To adore the potent spirit of your queen, My mother, great Diana. She who fain Would learn all sorcery yet has not won Its deepest secrets, them my mother will Teach her, in truth all things as yet unknown. And ye shall all be freed from slavery, And so ye shall be free in everything; And as the sign that ye are truly free, Ye shall be naked in your rites, both men And women also: this shall last until The last of your oppressors shall be dead...
Page 16 - DIANA was the first created before all creation; in her •were all things; out of herself, the first darkness, she divided herself; into darkness and light she was divided. Lucifer, her brother and son, herself and her other half, was the light.
Page 40 - Sweet is the vintage, when the showering grapes In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth, Purple and gushing: sweet are our escapes From civic revelry to rural mirth; Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps, Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth.
Page 4 - Tis true indeed that thou a spirit art, But thou wert born but to become again A mortal; thou must go to earth below...
Page 10 - I conjure thee, O Meal! Who art indeed our body, since without thee We could not live, thou who (at first as seed) Before becoming flower went in the earth, Where all deep secrets hide, and then when...
Page 6 - When I shall have departed from this world, Whenever ye have need of anything, Once in the month, and when the moon is full, Ye shall assemble in some desert place, Or in a forest all together join To adore the potent spirit of your queen, My mother, great Diana. She who fain Would learn all sorcery yet has not won Its deepest secrets, them my mother will Teach her, in truth all things as yet unknown.
Page vii - ... people in the Romagna of the North who know the Etruscan names of the Twelve Gods, and invocations to Bacchus, Jupiter, and Venus, Mercury, and the Lares or ancestral spirits, and in the cities are women who prepare strange amulets, over which they mutter spells, all known in the old Roman time, and who can astonish even the learned by their legends of Latin gods, mingled with lore which may be found in CATO or THEOCRITUS.