by Theresa | May 13, 2021 | Strega and Italian-Americana
In my research into the Abruzzo region of Italy that my family is from, for my novel The Strega and the Dreamer, I found the work of women ethnographers, folklorists and travel writers of the early 1900s to be the most helpful. Ethnography is: 1. The branch of...
by Theresa | Sep 6, 2019 | About Divination
In the West African tradition I am initiated into, the elemental beings are called the kontomble, (the little people or, more literally, the one who comes to the bell). In the Italian tradition they are called le fate. Essentially, these elemental beings are the same...