In formulating an outline of Wiccan theology and liturgy, Gardner drew not only upon the writings of Margaret Murray and her ideas about the worship of an ancient Horned God, but also upon the writings of Charles Godfrey Leland, author of Aradia, the Gospel of the Witches-who speculated that witchcraft involved the worship of a moon goddess.

Leland worked in journalism, travelled extensively, and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics, publishing books and articles on American and European languages and folk traditions.

Leland began to publish a number of books on ethnography, folklore and language.

He began his teaching career at Leland College in Baker, Louisiana ( 1923-1929 ), and it was while living in Louisiana that James began collecting folklore and folksongs, particularly along the levees of the Mississippi River.

Originally titled The Girls Upstairs, the musical was originally to be produced by David Merrick and Leland Hayward in late 1967, but the plans ultimately fell through, and Stuart Ostrow became the producer, with Joseph Hardy to direct.

To head off Barber's challenge, Madison met with influential Baptist preacher John Leland and promised that, in exchange for Leland's support of ratification, he would sponsor several amendments that were ultimately combined into the First Amendment.

An adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novella of the same name, Hemingway's agent, Leland Hayward, had previously written to the author: " Of all Hollywood people, the one that comes the closest to me in quality, in personality and voice, in personal dignity and ability, is Spencer Tracy.

By 1877, he had resumed work for Leland Stanford, as described above.

Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford, wife of Leland Stanford, governor and U. S. Senator from California, though she was not a Roman Catholic herself, had a granite monument erected to honor Father Serra at Monterey.

It was given this name by Leland Stanford of the Central Pacific Railroad as a favor to General Irvin McDowell, whom Wadsworth had served under during the Civil War.

The earliest histories of British and Irish castles were recorded, albeit in a somewhat fragmented fashion, by John Leland in the 16th century and, by the 19th century, historical analysis of castles had become popular.

A scholar of particular importance for Leland was François Dubois ( Silvius ), professor at the Collège de Tournai, who had a profound effect on his poetic as well as antiquarian interests.

By 1529, Leland had returned to England.

By about 1538, Leland had turned his attention to English and Welsh topography and antiquities, embarking on a series of journeys which lasted six years.

Polydore Vergil appears to have suggested that Leland had been unrealistically over-ambitious: he was " a vaynegloryouse persone, whyche woulde promyse more, than ever he was able or intended to perfourme ".

* 1878-Railroad tycoon Leland Stanford hired British photographer Eadweard Muybridge to settle a bet on whether a galloping horse ever had all four of its feet off the ground.

Hurd wrote two acrimonious defences of Warburton On the Delicacy of Friendship ( 1755 ), in answer to John Jortin and a Letter ( 1764 ) to Dr Thomas Leland, who had criticized Warburton's Doctrine of Grace.

After having set up a foursome with Teresa's friends, Leland had fled in fear, discovering that Laura was one of them.

She married Leland Stanford on September 30, 1850, and went to live with him in Port Washington, Wisconsin, where he had practiced law since 1848.

Bergerac's girlfriends included Francine Leland ( Cécile Paoli ) ( who, in a somewhat odd twist, had originally been the fiancée of a dead colleague ), Marianne Bellshade ( Celia Imrie ), Susan Young ( Louise Jameson ) and Danielle Aubry ( Thérèse Liotard ).

Soon after the decision, five minority candidates ( dubbed the " People's Five "), including eventual winners Leland, Craig Washington and Benny Reyes ran for district seats in the Texas House of Representatives, a first for a state that, although Barbara Jordan had been a state senator, had not seen any African-American state representatives since Reconstruction.

The Hellfire Club had failed, and the X-Men had taken their toll: Phoenix had driven Mastermind insane, Colossus had crippled Donald Pierce and Wolverine nearly killed Harry Leland and several guards.

The 14th Moon ( 1976 ), her final album as " Yumi Arai " had featured Leland Sklar on bass and Mike Baird on drums.

Leland completed the appraisal, but he advised Murphy and his partners that they were making a mistake to liquidate, and suggested they instead reorganize, building a new car powered by a single-cylinder engine Leland had originally developed for Oldsmobile.

Suddenly Alsatia is attacked by the Sea Swine ( that Leland had activated earlier to stop Leslie ), revealing that she is a robot built by Kenneth as a play-mate for Leslie, after his mother died.

Extrapolating from the work of the late Mr. Leland Duncan, " The Monumental Inscriptions in Lydd Church and Churchyard ", it is evident that a large number of sailors rest in the parish churchyard of the ancient Saxon church of Lydd, all victims of the stormy seas along this dangerous coast.

Grimassi shares in common, in his books, the general " Witch-cult hypothesis " that appears in the writings of Charles G. Leland ( Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, 1899 ), a theory to the effect that European witchcraft was the continuation of an ancient pre-Christian form.

The Abbey library was described by John Leland, King Henry VIII's antiquary who visited it, as containing unique copies of ancient histories of England and unique early Christian documents.

With the other members of the patents committee -- Wilfred C. Leland, Howard E. Coffin, Windsor T. White, and W. H. Vandervoort -- Hanch drafted a cross-licensing agreement whose essential feature of royalty-free licensing was his own contribution.

This isn't true of the many homemakers of the 1960's, according to decorator consultant, Leland Alden.

* 1989 – U. S. Congressman Mickey Leland ( D-TX ) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.

Nobel laureate faculty include Leland Hartwell, Edward C. Prescott, and Elinor Ostrom.

At a meeting at the Leland Hotel in Chicago in 1901, the other baseball leagues negotiated a plan to maintain their independence.

In 1542 John Leland reported the locals around Cadbury Castle in Somerset considered it to be the original Camelot.

It was financed and built through " The Big Four " ( who called themselves " The Associates "): Sacramento, California businessmen Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins.

There is also a small group in Montana, originally formed around the personality of Leland Jensen, who claimed a status higher than that of the Guardian.

In 1991, at the age of 16, Barrymore became engaged to Leland Hayward, grandson of Hollywood producer Leland Hayward.

On June 19, 1872, under the sponsorship of Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed a horse named " Sallie Gardner " in fast motion using a series of 24 stereoscopic cameras.

* 1964 – Leland D. Melvin, American astronaut

She said that Gardner referred to the Goddess as Airdia or Areda, which she believed was derived from Aradia, the deity that Charles Leland claimed was worshipped by Italian witches.

Stregheria, founded by Raven Grimassi and based on the works of Charles Godfrey Leland, the Horned God goes by several names, including Dianus, Faunus, Cern, and Actaeon.

* 1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.

Cotten went to Hollywood, but discovered there that his stage success in The Philadelphia Story translated to, in the words of his agent Leland Hayward, " spending a solid year creating the Cary Grant role.

The film featured Cotten prominently in the role of Kane's best friend Jedediah Leland, eventually a drama critic for one of Kane's papers.

He was raised as a Christian Scientist and spent his early childhood in Leland, Miss., moving with his family to Hyattsville, Maryland, near Washington, D. C., in the late 1940s.

On 7 December 1941 Ribbentrop was jubilant at the news of Pearl Harbor, and did his utmost to support declaring war on the United States, which he duly delivered to the American Chargé d ' Affaires Leland B. Morris on 11 December 1941.