Publisher's Synopsis
Charles Godfrey Leland was a 19th-century American humorist and folklorist. Leland, who worked as a journalist, traveled extensively and became interested in folklore and wrote many books on them. Among Leland's most famous works are Aradia: Gospel of the Witches and The Algonquin Legends of New England. Aradia: Gospel of the Witches, published in 1899, is a book that contains the religious text of a group of pagan witches in Tuscany, Italy.