CHAPTER VIII To Have a Good Vintage and Very Good Wine by the Aid of Diana
The man or woman who would have a good vintage and fine wine, should take a horn full of wine and with this go into the vineyards or farms wherever vines grow, and then drinking from the horn, repeat aloud the following incantation:
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The Invocation to Diana
I drink, and yet it is not wine I drink,
I drink the blood of Diana,
Since from wine it has changed into her blood,
And spread itself through all my growing vines,
Whence it will give me good return in wines,
Though even if good vintage should be mine,
I'll not be free from care, for should it chance
That the grape ripens in the waning moon,
Then all the wine would come to sorrow, but
If drinking from this horn I drink the blood
The blood of great Diana -by her aid
If I do kiss my hand to the new moon,
Praying the Queen that she will guard my grapes,
Even from the instant when the bud is horn
Until it is a ripe and perfect grape,
And onward to the vintage, and to the last
Until the wine is made-may it be good!
And may it so succeed that I from it
May draw good profit when at last 'tis sold,
So may good fortune come unto my vines,
And into all my land wherever it be!
But should my vines seem in an evil way,
I'll take my horn, and bravely will I blow
In the wine-vault at midnight, and I'll make
Such a tremendous and a terrible sound
That thou, Diana fair, however far
Away thou may'st be, still shalt hear the call,
And casting open door or window wide,
Shalt headlong come upon the rushing wind,
And find and save me-that is, save my vines,
Which will be saving me from dire distress;
For should I lose them I'd be lost myself,
But with thy aid, Diana, I'll be saved.
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.
