Editing Skyclad (Neopaganism) (section)

===Aradia===
The origins of this instruction have been traced to ''[[Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches]]''.<ref name="Hutton225">{{cite book | first=Ronald | last=Hutton | author-link=Ronald Hutton  | title=Triumph of the Moon | publisher =Oxford University Press | year=2000 | isbn=0-500-27242-5 |pages=225}}</ref><ref name = "Ruickbie113"/> The following speech by [[Aradia (goddess)|Aradia]] appears at the end of the book's first chapter;

<blockquote><poem>
And as the sign that ye are truly free,
Ye shall be naked in your rites, both men
And women also: this shall last until
The last of your oppressors shall be dead;<ref>Leland, [[wikisource:Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches Chapter I|Chapter I]]</ref>
</poem></blockquote>

[[Doreen Valiente]], one of Gardner's priestesses, recalls Gardner's surprise at Valiente's recognition of material from ''Aradia'' in the original version of the "Charge" that she was given.<ref name="Valiente">[[Doreen Valiente|Valiente, Doreen]], quoted in {{cite book | last=Clifton | first=Chas | editor=Mario Pazzaglini | title=Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, A New Translation | year=1998 | publisher=Phoenix Publishing, Inc. | location=Blaine, Washington | isbn=0-919345-34-4 | pages=73 | chapter=The Significance of Aradia }}</ref> Valiente later rewrote the "Charge", preserving the lines from ''Aradia''. Valiente's version was then widely circulated and reprinted.

Accepting ''Aradia'' as the source of skyclad practice, Robert Chartowich points to the 1998 Pazzaglini translation of these lines, which read "Men and Women / You will all be naked, until / Yet he shall be dead, the last / Of your oppressors is dead." Chartowich argues that the ritual nudity of Wicca was based upon Leland's mistranslation of these lines by incorporating the clause "in your rites".<ref name="Chartowich">{{cite book | last=Chartowich | first=Robert | editor=Mario Pazzaglini | title=Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, A New Translation | year=1998 | publisher=Phoenix Publishing, Inc. | location=Blaine, Washington | isbn=0-919345-34-4 | pages=453 | chapter=Enigmas of Aradia }}</ref>