CHAPTER V The Conjuration of the Lemon and Pins
A lemon stuck full of pins of different colors always brings good fortune. If you receive as a gift a lemon full of pins of divers colors, without any black ones among them, it signifies that your life will be perfectly happy and prosperous and joyful. But if some black pins are among them, you may enjoy good fortune and health, yet mingled with troubles which may be of small account.
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The Invocation to Diana
Goddess Diana, I do conjure thee
And with uplifted voice to thee I call,
That thou shalt never have content or peace
Until thou comest to give me all thy aid.
Therefore to-morrow at the stroke of noon
I'll wait for thee, bearing a cup of wine,
Therewith a lens or a small burning-glass.
And thirteen pins I'll put into the charm;
Those which I put shall all indeed be black,
But thou, Diana, thou wilt place them all!
And thou shalt call for me the fiends from hell;
Thou shalt send them as companions of the Sun,
And all the fire infernal of itself
Those fiends shall bring, and bring with it the, power
Unto the Sun to make this wine boil,
So that these pins by heat may be red-hot,
And with them I do fill the lemon here,
That unto her or him to who 'tis given is
Peace and prosperity shall be unknown.
If this grace I gain from thee
Give a sign, I pray, to me!
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION & PREFACE
An introduction and preface to this abridged collection of excerpts from the Aradia.
CHAPTER I
How Diana Gave Birth to Aradia (Herodias)
Of the
sufferings of Mankind, and how Diana sent Aradia on earth to
relieve them by teaching resistance and Sorcery-Poem addressed
to Mankind-How to invoke Diana or Aradia.
CHAPTER II
The Sabbat-Treguenda or Witch-Meeting
How to consecrate
the supper - Conjuration of the meal and of Salt-Invocation to
Cain - Conjuration of Diana and to Aradia.
CHAPTER III
How Diana Made the Stars and the Rain
CHAPTER IV
The Charm of the Stones Consecrated to Diana - The Incantation
of Perforated Stones - The Spell
or Conjuration of the Round Stone
CHAPTER V
The Conjuration of the Lemon and Pins-Incantation to
Diana
CHAPTER VI
A Spell to Win Love
CHAPTER VII
To Find or Buy Anything, or to Have Good Fortune
Thereby
CHAPTER VIII
How Have a Good Vintage and Very Good Wine By the Aid of
Diana
CHAPTER IX
Tana and Endamone, or Diana and Endymion
CHAPTER X
Madonna Diana
A Legend of Cettardo, and how Diana
appeared with ten Bridesmaids to give away a Bride- Incantation
to Diana for a Wedding.
CHAPTER XI
The House of the Wind
Showing how Diana rescued a Lady
from Death at the House ol the Wind in Volterra.
CHAPTER XII
Tana or Diana, The Moon-Goddess
CHAPTER XIII
Diana and the Children
CHAPTER XIV
The Goblin Messengers of Diana and Mercury
CHAPTER XV
Laverna
APPENDIX
A collection of thoughts and comments on the Aradia from its author.