Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling: : Illustrated by Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes, and Tales (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781463644512)

Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15, 1824 - March 20, 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Princeton University and in Europe. Leland worked in journalism, traveled extensively, and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics, publishing books and articles on American and European languages and folk traditions. By the end of his life shortly after the turn of the century, Leland had worked in a wide variety of trades, achieved recognition as the author of the comic Hans Breitmann's Ballads, fought in two conflicts, and had written what was to become a primary source text for Neopaganism half a century later, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches.

Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
ISBN-10: 1463644515
ISBN-13: 9781463644512
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2011
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.44d