In a recent post of a Facebook group, a member asked about the concepts of the afterlife in Stregheria. As expected, it varies by the tradition or family practice. Here is my contribution: Our group has a concept of an afterlife which is based on the 4-fold body. The physical, […]
Ciao a tutti, On Tuesday, I was honored to be interviewed by Peggy Brewster for her Consciousness Rising Radio show. The FaceBook page is located at https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRisingRadio. The schedule when the interview will air should be up shortly so check back. The interview was in my favorite format – […]
Ciao a tutti! Lately, I’ve been busy with http://www.stregacrafts.com and setting up a new specials/discount category for customers. Now that we have that in place, I’m going to spend a bit of time sprucing up and fleshing out our resource site: http://www.streghe.us. I’ve put out some new articles […]
Non-Pagan Elements in Italic-American Witchcraft (C) 2014, Vincent Russo – stregone@VinnieRusso.com I’m often asked questions such as “Why are some branches of the Strega Traditions more Pagan, and some more Christian, and some more of a blend of both? Why is does this appear true, especially in the United States?” […]
Just a quick note for today. :-) How would you go about describing your Path? Spiritual, religious, practice? Is it Stregheria, Stregoneria, or something else? A dear friend described his practice as being “cultic sorcery” as opposed to religious even though there is a strong personal spirituality at the […]
Busy creating content Ciao a tutti,It’s been very busy here! I’ve spent that last couple weeks working on products like reformulating and pricing our incense. We’ve even had a few nibbles about wholesaling the incense to some stores. :-) For the past week or so, Mike and I have been […]
The Feast of the Seven Fishes – an Italian-American Tradition, but is it Italian? Well, it depends on how you define Tradition and how you define Italian. The Feast of the Seven Fishes is a Christmas Tradition for many Italian-American households. The idea is that on Christmas eve (Christmas day […]
9 day and counting until I leave for my trip. While gone, I play on keeping a travel log of my journey and my thoughts. This seems like a really good place to keep. As part of getting ready, I’ve been reviewing my social networking presence. The number of “groups” […]
Ciao a tutti, I think that it’s important to never stop learning. That’s one of the reasons that I’ve (lately) been looking into Hoodoo practices. Wikipedia says:“Hoodoo, also known as conjure, is a form of predominantly African-American traditional folk magic that developed from the syncretism of a number of separate […]
Using the Saints as part of the Italian Craft In Italy (and in the USA) much of “traditional” Italian culture now a-days often has at least a gloss (if not a thick coating!) of Christianity. This is because Christianity is still the overwhelming dominant religion and probably will be for […]