Is Stregheria Italian Witchcraft?

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Is the Strega tradition founded by Raven Grimassi representative of Italian folk magic, vernacular healing or cunning folks? The influence of Wicca, Charles Leland and Aradia - the Gospel of the Withes - on Italian American reinterpretations.

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REFERENCES
Magliocco, S. 2009a. In search of the roots of Stregheria: Preliminary Observations on the History of a Reclaimed Tradition In: L. Del Giudice, ed. Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans. Springer.
Magliocco, S. 2006. Italian American Stregheria and Wicca: Ethnic Ambivalence in American Neopaganism In: M. Strmiska, ed. Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, pp.55–86.
Magliocco, S. 2009b. Italian Cunning Craft: Some Preliminary Observations. Journal of the Academic Study of Magic. (5), pp.103–133.
Puca, A. 2020a. Indigenous and trans-cultural Shamanism in Italy.[Online] Ph.D., University of Leeds. [Accessed 26 February 2022]. Available from: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/28331/.
Puca, A. 2020b. The Impact of Social Media on Italian Shamanism and Folk Magic. Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR). 22, pp.55–70.
Puca, A. 2019. The Tradition of Segnature: Underground Indigenous Practices in Italy. The Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions. (7), pp.104–123.

00:00 Introduction: Why I avoided this subject
02:51 What is Stregheria?
04:55 A Wiccan based US-Italian religion
08:11 Raven Grimassi
08:56 Aradia
10:01 Summary
11:17 Support Angela’s Symposium

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