Stregheria
Stregheria (Italian pronunciation: [streɡeˈriːa]) is a form of Italian Americanwitchcraft. Stregheria is sometimes referred to as La Vecchia Religione ("the Old Religion"). The word stregheria is an archaic Italian word for "witchcraft", the most used and modern Italian word being stregoneria.
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.
Podcasts:
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by Annihilator
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by Sugar Ray
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by Julian Cope
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by Unclean
Striker
by: AnnihilatorWaking the fury, the power, the beast
You challenge the best in the land
I'll show you no mercy, prepare for a fight
The ultimate force is at hand
Slithering into position, moving in for the attack
Forging ahead with precision, now there is no turning back
Charging ahead with conviction, let no one dare stand in my way
Conquering all opposition, the battle is mine once again
Striker, yeah, striker
Yeah, strike
Crushing opponents, I'll silence them all
With a hunger that's second to none
Intimidation is my reputation
It's over before it is done, yeah
Slithering into position, moving in for the attack
Forging ahead with precision, now there is no turning back
Charging ahead with conviction, let no one dare stand in my way
Conquering all opposition, the battle is mine once again
Striker, yeah, striker
Yeah, strike, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Incomprehensible]
Waking the fury, the power, the beast
You challenge the best in the land
I'll show you no mercy, prepare for a fight
The ultimate force is at hand
Slithering into position, moving in for the attack
Forging ahead with precision, now there is no turning back
Charging ahead with conviction, let no one dare stand in my way
Conquering all opposition, the battle is mine once again
Striker, the striker