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    Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated...
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    folklore and magical practices supposedly collected in Italy by Charles Godfrey Leland and published in his Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, the figure...
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  • expressed a range of opinions as to the function of the rope. When Charles Godfrey Leland received news of the Wellington find whilst in Italy, he investigated...
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    Gospel of the Witches is a book composed by the American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland that was published in 1899. It contains what he believed was the...
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  • Aradia is one of the principal figures in the American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland's 1899 work Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, which he believed...
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  • "spending our spondulix." In Meister Karl's Sketch-Book (1855), Charles Godfrey Leland includes it in a long list of synonyms for money: " . . . the magic...
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    cites it as well. The poem has been translated among others by Charles Godfrey Leland Some of the stanzas: The rushes are strangely rustling, The ocean...
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    The stories were first recorded by Silas Tertius Rand and then by Charles Godfrey Leland in the 19th century. In his role as creator, Glooscap is similar...
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    writings of Joseph de Guignes were republished and disseminated by Charles Godfrey Leland in 1875. Sinologists, including Emil Bretschneider, Berthold Laufer...
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    to the Old World. The poem has been translated by, among others, Charles Godfrey Leland. English author Robert Smith Surtees parodied the obsession of wealthy...
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