Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland
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The opening
CHAPTER I HOW DIANA GAVE BIRTH TO ARADIA (HERODIAS)
HOW DIANA GAVE BIRTH TO ARADIA (HERODIAS)
“It is Diana! Lol She rises crescented.” —Keats’ Endyrnion.
“Make more bright The Star Queen’s crescent on her marriage night”
This is the Gospel (Vangeio) of the Witches:
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About this edition
- The words
- Charles Godfrey Leland's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 22 places
- Google's notice about the digitised book (Google Book Search usage guidelines), page 0 of the scan (17 blocks)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 3 places
- Marks on the flyleaf of the scanned copy (stamps or handwriting), read as characters by the OCR (4 blocks)
- The printer's imprint ("Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.")
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- Scan mark: a large mark in the margin (“I”)
- Other works printed in the same volume
- A speck on a blank end page
- Stanford University Libraries' stamps, barcode and date-due slip (10 blocks)