Leland, Charles Godfrey 1824-1903

Hans Breitmann's party. With other ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland( Book )

34 editions published between 1868 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 256 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Humorous poems written in dialect

Sunshine in thought (1862) by Charles Godfrey Leland( Book )

9 editions published in 1959 in English and held by 233 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Breitmann ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland( Book )

74 editions published between 1871 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 201 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pidgin-English sing-song, or, Songs and stories in the China-English dialect. With a vocabulary by Charles Godfrey Leland( Book )

50 editions published between 1876 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 200 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Aradia; or, The gospel of the witches by Charles Godfrey Leland( Book )

32 editions published between 1899 and 2016 in English and held by 197 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

If Gerald Brosseau Gardner is the father of the religion that calls itself Wicca, then Charles Godfrey Leland is the grandfather of Witchcraft as a religion in the English-speaking world, and his small book, "Aradia, " is that religion's birth-announcement. It is the first work in English in which Witchcraft is portrayed as an underground old religion, surviving in secret from ancient Pagan times. Until now "Aradia" has been a work more often cited than read. Its first edition (1899) garnered only one review, and sank from sight like a stone cast into murky waters; it sold poorly and is now a rare book. By chance a copy fell into the hands of Theda Kenyon, who devoted a few pages to it in her sensational "Witches Still Live" (1929), thereby calling it to the attention of many readers. By the 1950s Doreen Valiente had read "Aradia, " and she incorporated some of its most beautiful passages into the Wiccan rituals that she wrote. In the '60s and '70s it was reprinted four times, but always from a defective copy of the first edition that had lost its last page. Only in the '90s did another reprint finally restore the missing page. "Aradia" has always been a controversial work, among Witches and scholars alike. Scholars have questioned whether it may be a fiction or a forgery by Leland or by his principal informant, Maddalena (Margherita Taludi). Witches have objected to it on theological and ethical grounds, since some of the myths that it tells are about Lucifer and Cain as well as Diana and Aradia, some of its spells work by threatening or coercing the Deities and spirits, and in its revolutionary fervour it does not shrink even from teaching that the poor and downtrodden should use poisons to destroy their feudal overlords. Despite all that, it remains a beautiful and compelling work. This edition has brought the format and typography up to date, while keeping the text unchanged. A modern reader will undoubtedly find this new edition of "Aradia" much easier to read than the original or any of its facsimile reprints

Abraham Lincoln and the abolition of slavery in the United States by Charles Godfrey Leland( Book )

25 editions published between 1879 and 2013 in English and held by 191 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems by Charles Godfrey Leland( Book )

15 editions published between 1902 and 2012 in English and held by 174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The alternate sex; or, The female intellect in man, and the masculine in woman by Charles Godfrey Leland( Book )

13 editions published between 1904 and 1910 in English and held by 123 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ye book of copperheads by Charles Godfrey Leland( Book )

8 editions published between 1863 and 2012 in English and held by 109 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of cartoons and satirical verses

Songs of the sea and Lays of the land by Charles Godfrey Leland( Book )

20 editions published between 1895 and 2012 in English and held by 103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide