Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated...
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Lucifer (section Charles Godfrey Leland)
folklore and magical practices supposedly collected in Italy by Charles Godfrey Leland and published in his Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, the figure...
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Witch's ladder (section Charles Godfrey Leland)
expressed a range of opinions as to the function of the rope. When Charles Godfrey Leland received news of the Wellington find whilst in Italy, he investigated...
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Gospel of the Witches is a book composed by the American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland that was published in 1899. It contains what he believed was the...
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Aradia (section Leland's Aradia)
Aradia is one of the principal figures in the American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland's 1899 work Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, which he believed...
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writings of Joseph de Guignes were republished and disseminated by Charles Godfrey Leland in 1875. Sinologists, including Emil Bretschneider, Berthold Laufer...
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The stories were first recorded by Silas Tertius Rand and then by Charles Godfrey Leland in the 19th century. In his role as creator, Glooscap is similar...
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confounded when he is taken. — Agobard of Lyon, On Hail and Thunder Charles Godfrey Leland, in his book Etruscan Roman Remains, relates certain stories about...
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to the Old World. The poem has been translated by, among others, Charles Godfrey Leland. English author Robert Smith Surtees parodied the obsession of wealthy...
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"spending our spondulix." In Meister Karl's Sketch-Book (1855), Charles Godfrey Leland includes it in a long list of synonyms for money: " . . . the magic...
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Century Dictionary. Vol. Part XIV. New York: Century. p. 4099. Leland, Charles Godfrey (1868). "Glossary". Hans Breitmann as a politician (English ed...
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(1822–1885), Democratic mayor of New York Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903), US humorist and folklorist Charles Godfrey (physician) (1917–2022), Ontario politician...
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criminal Note: Leland is a traditional Irish surname. Burton Leland (1948–2018), American social worker and businessman Charles Godfrey Leland, American humorist...
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the Baptist. In the book Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches by Charles Godfrey Leland, Cain is a lunar figure. According to Rashi, who cites a midrash...
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cites it as well. The poem has been translated among others by Charles Godfrey Leland Some of the stanzas: The rushes are strangely rustling, The ocean...
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ISBN 9781610695688. Parkhill, Thomas. Weaving Ourselves Into the Land: Charles Godfrey Leland, "Indians," and the Study of Native American Religions. United States: State...
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translated to English as Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing, first by Charles Godfrey Leland, published in New York in 1866 by Leypohlt & Holt. A translation...
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and black magic, and as a counter-charm against sorcery. In 1891, Charles Godfrey Leland also reported traditions of rowan's apotropaic powers against witches...
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stories take the point of view of the Chenoo rather than the humans. Charles Godfrey Leland describes the Chenoo as having "something made of devil, man, and...
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theories as to the origin of the term, none of which has been proven: Charles Godfrey Leland mentions the idea that the word could be derived from the Norse...
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German tr., Gaster (1884), pp. 285–286 Gerard (1885), p. 136. Leland, Charles Godfrey (1891), Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, pp. 128–129. or just...
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Society The Society of Gypsy Lore volume 6: 1912 Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant embracing English, American...
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King of the Gypsies (section Charles Faa Blythe I)
language in the 1870s to Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903), the American folklorist and founder of the Gypsy Lore Society. Leland claimed Cooper was the...
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Champlain among Atosis. The name Kci-Athussos means "great serpent." Charles Godfrey Leland (2020). Algonquin Legends of New England. Library of Alexandria...
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unnamed Florentine artist Maddalena, the assistant to anthropologist Charles Godfrey Leland Giovanni Maddalena, Professor of theoretical philosophy at University...
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Persoonlijkheid van Javaans". The Hague: Droggstopel. p. 72 (in Dutch). Charles Godfrey Leland (1899). Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches. D. Nutt. p. VIII....
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Francis Hindes Groome [1899], at Sacred Texts.com Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling by Charles Godfrey Leland [1891], at Sacred Texts.com v t e v t e...
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State Iroquois. University of the State of New York. pp. 38–39. Charles Godfrey Leland (1884). The Algonquin Legends of New England: Or, Myths and Folk...
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post witchhunt European religious Witchcraft, was published by Charles Godfrey Leland. 1901: The incorporation of the Spiritualists' National Union legally...
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of Pennsylvania Hall. Discussing this time period, local author Charles Godfrey Leland wrote, "Whoever shall write a history of Philadelphia from the Thirties...
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