Editing Lucifer (section)

===Charles Godfrey Leland===
In a collection of folklore and magical practices supposedly collected in Italy by [[Charles Godfrey Leland]] and published in his ''[[Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches]]'', the figure of Lucifer is featured prominently as both the brother and consort of the goddess [[Diana (mythology)|Diana]], and father of [[Aradia]], at the center of an alleged Italian witch-cult.<ref name="aradia_sardinia">Magliocco, Sabina. (2009). Aradia in Sardinia: The Archaeology of a Folk Character. Pp. 40–60 in ''Ten Years of Triumph of the Moon''. Hidden Publishing.</ref> In Leland's mythology, Diana pursued her brother Lucifer across the sky as a cat pursues a mouse. According to Leland, after dividing herself into light and darkness:

{{blockquote|[...] Diana saw that the light was so beautiful, the light which was her other half, her brother Lucifer, she yearned for it with exceeding great desire. Wishing to receive the light again into her darkness, to swallow it up in rapture, in delight, she trembled with desire. This desire was the Dawn. But Lucifer, the light, fled from her, and would not yield to her wishes; he was the light which flies into the most distant parts of heaven, the mouse which flies before the cat.<ref name="aradia">Charles G. Leland, ''Aradia: The Gospel of Witches'', Theophania Publishing, US, 2010.</ref>}}

Here, the motions of Diana and Lucifer once again mirror the celestial motions of the moon and Venus, respectively.<ref name="stregheria">Magliocco, Sabina. (2006). [https://www.academia.edu/584607/Italian_American_Stregheria_and_Wicca_Ethnic_ambivalence_in_American_Neopaganism Italian American Stregheria and Wicca: Ethnic Ambivalence in American Neopaganism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809160310/https://www.academia.edu/584607/Italian_American_Stregheria_and_Wicca_Ethnic_ambivalence_in_American_Neopaganism |date=2019-08-09 }}. Pp. 55–86 in Michael Strmiska, ed., ''Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives''. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.</ref> Though Leland's Lucifer is based on the classical personification of the planet Venus, he also incorporates elements from Christian tradition, as in the following passage:

{{blockquote|Diana greatly loved her brother Lucifer, the god of the Sun and of the Moon, the god of Light (Splendor), who was so proud of his beauty, and who for his pride was driven from Paradise.<ref name=aradia/>}}

In the several modern [[Wiccan]] traditions based in part on Leland's work, the figure of Lucifer is usually either omitted or replaced as Diana's consort with either the Etruscan god [[Tagni]], or Dianus ([[Janus]], following the work of folklorist [[James Frazer]] in ''The Golden Bough'').<ref name=aradia_sardinia/>