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Roma Lister: Select Quotes

Posted on August 6, 2025August 6, 2025 by TheCustodian

“Miss [Roma] Lister has been a close student of the occult and knows well of what she is writing.   -Edith Katherine Harper  In order to shed a little more light on Roma Lister’s philosophical outlook, I’ve assembled a short selection of quotes from the second volume of her memoirs, Further Reminiscences: Occult and Social…

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Visiting a Witch: The Florence Home of Maddalena

Posted on June 27, 2025June 27, 2025 by TheCustodian

 “Yesterday, I went with Roma Lister to visit Maddalena, the witch…”  – Charles Godfrey Leland In the ten or so years leading up to the publication of Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches (1899), Charles Godfrey Leland associated with a number of self-professed witches in Florence and the wider Tuscan countryside. “I have,” he wrote…

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