This wonderful book describes the creation according to Italian witch-lore. We also read about the witch-meeting or sabbath (treguenda) and the book contains many original magical recipes, like spells for love and good fortune. Diana is further connected to the Moon and the fairy world. Goddess of Witchcraft Where Leland’s Etruscan Magic and Occult Remedies deals with the entire pantheon of old Italian gods and nature spirits, worshiped by the streghe, Aradia is focused on Diana or Tana, her daughter Aradia and Lucifer. Aradia, the queen of the Italian witches, or streghe is as Leland concludes: ‘evidently enough Herodias, who was regarded in the beginning as associated with Diana as chief of the witches. This was not, as I opine, derived from the Herodias of the New Testament, but from an earlier replica of Lilith, bearing the same name.’ This wonderful book describes the creation according to Italian witch-lore. We also read about the witch-meeting or sabbath (treguenda) and it contains many original magical recipes, like spells for love and good fortune. Diana is further connected to the Moon and the fairy world. VAMzzz Publishing revised this book with a Post Scriptum, containing biographical info on Charles Godfrey Leland, his witch-informant Maddalena and historical proof the witch-tradition is indeed linked to 2000 years of Diana worship. PREFACE 7 CHAPTER I How Diana Gave Birth to Aradia (Herodias) 12 CHAPTER II The Sabbat: Treguenda or Witch-Meeting - How to Consecrate the Supper -  21 CHAPTER III How Diana Made the Stars and the Rain 33 CHAPTER IV The Charm of the Stones Consecrated to Diana 37 CHAPTER V The Conjuration of the Lemon and Pins 45 CHAPTER VI A Spell To Win Love 51 CHAPTER VII To Find or Buy Anything, or to Have Good Fortune Thereby 55 CHAPTER VIII To Have a Good Vintage and Very Good Wine by the Aid of Diana 61 CHAPTER IX Tana and Endamone, Diana and Endymion 67 CHAPTER X Madonna Diana 77 CHAPTER XI The House of the Wind 81 CHAPTER XII Tana, The Moon-Goddess 89 CHAPTER XIII Diana and the Children 95 CHAPTER XIV The Goblin Messengers of Diana and Mercury 103 CHAPTER XV Laverna 107 APPENDIX 117 Comments on the Foregoing Texts 119 The Children of Diana, or How the Fairies Were Born 137 Diana, Queen of the Serpents, Giver of the Gift of Languages 143 Post Scriptum