RAVEN GRIMASSI, WAROCK
"I foresee that a day will come, and that perhaps not so very far distant, that the world of scholars will be amazed to consider to what a late period an immense body of antique tradition survived in northern Italy, and how indifferent the learned were regarding it; there having seen in truth, only one man, and he a foreigner, who earnestly occupied himself with collecting and preserving it."
Charles Godfrey Leland - 1899
''I first began writing Witchcraft and Wicca material for the public in 1979. At this time I was the editor and contributing writer for a magazine called The Shadow's Edge. Over the following two decades this magazine evolved into different magazines, one called Moon Shadows, and another called Raven's Call. Raven's Call magazine was discontinued in 2001.
In the early 1980s I produced two self-published books through Nemi Enterprises, titled the Book of the Holy Strega, and The Book of Ways (a two volume set), which all went out-of-print three years later. The Book of the Holy Strega is still out-of-print and unavailable. However, the Book of Ways is back in reprint, and the two volumes are now combined into one book. It is available exclusively through Raven’s Loft store: Raven's Loft.
In the early 1990s I produced two booklets through Moon Dragon Publications, titled The Teachings of the Holy Strega, and Whispers; Teachings of the Old Religion of Italy. These works are also out-of-print and unavailable.
In 1994 Llewellyn Publications accepted my manuscript for Ways of the Strega, which was then published in 1995. The book was later re-titled Italian Witchcraft, and with a new chapter and expanded material throughout the book it was released in 2000. I wrote Ways of the Strega/Italian Witchcraft in order to fill a void. Prior to this book there were few books on Witchcraft and Wicca that contained material for people of non-Celtic lineage, or for those interested in southern European systems. While I seem to be best known for writing about Italian Witchcraft, this topic is represented in only two of the twelve books I have in print today. My other titles deal with the core commonality of Witchcraft and Wicca without any specific cultural representation. ''