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Stregheria ((:streɡeˈriːa)) is a form of Italian American〔http://www.academia.edu/150897/Who_Was_Aradia_The_History_and_Development_of_a_Legend〕 witchcraft. Stregheria is sometimes referred to as ''La Vecchia Religione'' ("the Old Religion").〔''A New history of Witchcraft'', Jeffrey Russell & Brooks Alexander, page 152, "the old religion" was first used in Leland's ''Aradia''〕 The word ''stregheria'' is an archaic Italian word for "witchcraft", the most used and modern Italian word being ''stregoneria''.〔''Nuovo Dizionario Italiano-Latino'', the Società Editrice Dante Alighieri (1959)〕 Author Raven Grimassi has written on the topic. Grimassi taught what he called the Aridian tradition from 1980. He mixed elements of Gardnerian Wicca with ideas inspired by Charles G. Leland's ''Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches'' (1899). The name "Aradia" is due to Leland, who claimed that ''Erodiade'' (the Italian name of Herodias) was the object of a "witch-cult" in medieval Tuscany. Since 1998, Grimassi has been advocating what he calls the Arician tradition, described as an "initiate level" variant of the religion, involving an initiation ceremony. Stregheria has both similarities and differences with Wicca, and in some ways resembles reconstructionist Neopaganism focussed on a specific nation or culture (in this case the folk religion of ancient and medieval Italy). Stregheria honors a pantheon centered on a Moon Goddess and a Horned God regarded as central, paralleling Wiccan views of divinity. ==History== The modern movement originates in the 1970s with Italian-American Leo Martello. Martello claimed to belong to a "family tradition" of religious witchcraft in his 1970s book ''Witchcraft: The Old Religion''. Martello does not use the word "Stregheria" when referring to his personal practice, but refers to it as "the Strega tradition". Raven Grimassi began teaching the "Aridian Tradition", a modernized public system presented in his published works, in 1980 in the San Diego, California area. Grimassi published two books related to the topic (''Italian Witchcraft'' and ''Hereditary Witchcraft'') between 1981 and 2009. Revival of the name ''Stregheria'' first occurs in Grimassi's ''Ways of the Strega'' (1994). In using an archaic Italian term, Grimassi follows Gerald Gardner (1954), who used the Old English form ''wicca'' to refer to the adherents of his alleged "witch cult". The word is earlier found in a book titled ''Apologia della Congresso Notturno Delle Lamie'' by Girolamo Tartarotti (1751), who uses ''stregheria'' to describe Italian witchcraft as the cult of the goddess Diana. Although the validity of this view has been disputed by American scholars, Italian ethnohistorian Paolo Portone has demonstrated reference to the cult of Diana in the records of the earliest witch trials, including in the ''Canon Episcopi''. Moreover, by contrasting the trials held before the Inquisitor of Milan in 1384 and 1390 of Sybil de Laria and Pierina de Bugatis, Portone has demonstrated how Inquisitors constructed beliefs surrounding "evil witches" directly from the Pagan worship of Diana. Grimassi founded the "Arician Tradition" in 1998, described as an initiate level variant of Stregheria.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Witchvox )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stregheria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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