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“Tenebrae Lucem praecedunt et illa est Mater.”



"Darkness precedes Light and She is Mother."

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My site's tagline is from an inscription on one of the two altars of the Duomo (Cattedrale di S. Matteo)



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The Differences Between Benedicaria, Stregoneria, and Stregheria.



By the Rev. Agostino Taumaturgo

Between the posts on sites like Mystic Wicks and the debunkings on Stregoneria Italiana[1], or the claims of "secret traditions" offered on any number of other websites, it's easy for the average person to get confused about the various terms that people throw around at one another, even if that person were raised in a solid family tradition. And so, it is the purpose of this article to help sort out the terms and their origins.


Stregheria:

Being the most recent and…



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Rue's Kitchen is dedicated to the fight against the cultural violence committed against practitioners of stregoneria (traditional Italian witchcraft) and Benedicaria* (Italian folk healing/magic and spiritual rituals of blessing a.k.a the things we do) by self-proclaimed Italian witches [sic] and certain authors claiming that there was and still is a secret society pre-dating Christianity that practiced and continues to practice witchcraft as a religion in Italy.

Amongst people of southern Italian descent, Italians and North American-Italians alike, there is a tradition which is passed from mother to daughter, father to son, zia to nipote, commara to commarella, etc. This tradition is very rich, and in it will be found the rituals and prayers for the outward expression of one's inner spirituality for every phase and condition of one's life.

* term coined by Vito Quattrocchi for the rituals of blessing.

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