Talk:Stregheria

message: I'm not claiming that the reference to Pythagoreans is inaccurate -- I don't have the scholarship to confirm or deny it. It is, however, wildly out of place. The comment is sort of just tacked onto the end of an otherwise useful sentence. I've removed it. Revgraves (talk) 12:06, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pythagoreans? 

message: I just put up my rewrite.  Jkelly 22:26, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 

message: My applause to Jkelly for the unbiased rewrite.
This is very much as I imagined the article should be. Informative, yet maintaining that we are dealing with a very specific, modern group... all the time without raining on anyone's parade.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Solitario (talk • contribs) October 14 2005 23:18 (UTC)
=== Minor edit ===
Ginzburg's book is "Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath". I fixed it. Toadsboon 09:17, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, thanks.  Jkelly 17:56, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

text: You should feel free. Jkelly 02:07, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! Metamagician3000 02:15, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And congratulations on the outcome. Well deserved! Metamagician3000 11:33, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very nice. Well done! 

message: Ginzburg's book is "Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath". I fixed it. Toadsboon 09:17, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, thanks.  Jkelly 17:56, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor edit 

message: I've just done a full copyedit for stylistic consistency and flow. I hope I haven't introduced any new typos/glitches. Someone should check through. This was already a very well-written article. I hope I've put a little bit more polish on it here and there.
I'm impressed by this article and am thinking of nominating it for Good Article status. I won't do so yet, in case that cuts across anyone else's plans. Metamagician3000 01:56, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You should feel free. Jkelly 02:07, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! Metamagician3000 02:15, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And congratulations on the outcome. Well deserved! Metamagician3000 11:33, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyedit

message: What's the etymology of the term? Apparently from "stryx/strix" as per the Italian WP, so a more literal translation would be "owlcraft". Dysmorodrepanis 12:51, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology

message: The article is clearly well-written, but "witchcraft" in Italian translates as STREGONERIA (from STREGONE, a mage, which in turn derives from Strix - a bird of prey). 
No sane person would ever say "stregheria".
If you search "stregheria" with Google yuyou turn up only with english reasults, actually.
:That's because "Stregheria" is not the modern Italian word for withcraft, it is a historical word. Similarly, Wiccans use "Wicca", the old English word, instead of "Witchcraft", the modern English word. (Midnightblueowl (talk) 17:03, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  That's utterly fucked up 

message: I noticed that the mention of Raven Grimassi has been deleted in several places from the Stregheria article. However, Grimassi is a key figure related to Stregheria, and is currently the primary author in this field.  Therefore I have restored the deleted text. Stephanie Taylor (talk) 16:22, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taking Grimassi out of Stregheria? 

message: Hey all. I was wondering, what do Stregherians actually believe, theology wise? I don't think that this page really makes it clear. For instance, the page for Wicca is very clear what Wiccans believe, but what about Stregherians? Many thanks (Midnightblueowl (talk) 20:48, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  So What Do Stregherians Believe? 

message: Known in Greece was the striges, a vampire witch. The term survived in Greece as Striges, in Romania as Strigoi and in Italy as Strega. What connection does this have to vampires exactly?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Unbeholden (talk • contribs) 20:39, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Strega, associated with Vampires

message: I have moved the dictionary discussion to :wikt:stregheria, 
and I have also removed the lengthy tangent on the Witch-cult hypothesis, which has its own dedicated article. --dab (𒁳) 10:30, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: removed some off topic parts

message: There is a lot of paralleling in here to things that are not even in wicca.  Wicca doesn't necessarily have a horned god.  Only an initiated can correct me on this if im wrong, but it sounds like people are confusing eclectic neopaganism with wicca again, and in the end it has nothing to do with stregoneria.  If there are no objections, i would like to re-write those bits to remove the incorrect references to wicca. Stregamama (talk) 14:45, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: done.  i also removed grimassi's bibliography as it is irrelevant to stregoneria.  it belongs on his personal page, not here.  if a wikipedian with stronger skills would care to fix this, this article, in my opinion is far too grimassi centered and doesnt even mention writings of LeLand or Ginsburg. Stregamama (talk) 14:08, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

text: According to academic sources, Stregheria, as created by Grimassi, was more or less an offshoot of Wicca. I understand that practitioners may claim direct descent from older traditions (as is common in neopaganism), but we have to give some weight to the academic sources. We can't present the article entirely from the point of view of Stregheria practitioners. These academic sources include White 2015 and Strmiska 2005 (as currently used in the article). Nosferattus (talk) 21:02, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Innacurate references to Wicca 

message: Blank and redirect diff here. - Darker Dreams (talk) 04:54, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Stregoneria]] blanked and redirected to this page