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Patricia Della-Piana is a spiritual poet, with over fifty years in the field. She is a practicing strega (Italian witch) and has been dedicated to the Goddess for more than forty years.

She has self-published The Goddess Book of Psalms, about which one reader commented, “it enriched my devotion and love for the Goddess manifold. A true treasure!” Also in publication is her Devotions for the Witch: Devozioni della Strega. She is working on the production of a book of witchy recipes, as well as a perennial pagan calendar.

As ‘Delia the Crone’, she was actively involved in the pre-internet craze of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS’s) world wide, and was one of several partners operating a short-lived pagan book store in Tampa, Florida, in the mid-1990's.

Patricia writes every day, unless she’s undertaking a genealogy project. Her genealogical studies revealed an ancestor who was an Inquisitor for the church, dignifying himself quite cruelly during the European Inquisition. Consequently, she feels the need to doubly glorify the Goddess in redress for his malevolence.

She enjoys sewing, decorating, visiting her many grandchildren and her awesome children. She loves to entertain friends and will find any excuse to cast a circle or cook for them.

Name:

Patricia Della-Piana

Location:

South Carolina
29832
United States

E-mail:

Deliathecrone@yahoo.com

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This is the official site to purchase books written by Patricia Della-Piana, also known as Delia the Crone.

Whether you're buying a book as a gift for a friend, a loved one, or for yourself, your heart will be touched and your mind illuminated by these inspirational works. Patricia is a goddess woman, a pagan and a deeply spiritual person.

Please come in and browse for a spell, while you learn a bit about the author...

She has been writing for many years, for herself, for her friends, and for her children. Now that her children are grown and have children of their own, she's begun to collect all the work she's done all those years, so that she can share it with you.

In Pat's books, you might find spiritual poetry, pagan rituals, recipes, or many other kinds of written entertainment. Her interests are many and varied, so you are certain to find something to engage you - eventually - on these pages.

Please check in from time to time; more and more selections will be added, as it evolves.

Aradia: Gospel of the Witches, RetoldAradia: Gospel of the Witches, Retold (book)

Print: $21.00

Download: $7.00

A new translation of a 120-year-old book. Finally, you will know what it REALLY says! Be ready to change your impression of Charles Godfrey Leland's important work. Did Leland create a complete fiction? Was he duped by a wily Tuscan witch into believing he'd been given accurate information? Was his honest work changed by a publisher who feared the material? After you've read what the Italian verses actually say, you will have the answers to these and other questions that may be forming in your mind.

Devotions for the WitchDevotions for the Witch (book)

Print: $25.00

Growing up in an Italian-American Roman Catholic home, the author longed for a prayer book like the missal she used as a child, dedicated to the virgin mother. That yearning created this prayer book, dedicated only to the goddesses known to the Italian world in ancient and in modern times.

The Goddess Book of PsalmsThe Goddess Book of Psalms (book)

Hardcover Print: $34.96

A new concept in the worship of the Goddess, The Goddess Book of Psalms can be used in your daily personal devotions, for guidance or inspiration, or in meditations. This small book of praise, petitions and incantations holds words that will echo in your heart as you read them, over and over, telling of your own journey to the Goddess.

The Goddess Book of PsalmsThe Goddess Book of Psalms (book)

Print: $20.95

Awaken your spirituality with words you’ve always known, now composed in psalm format, that will echo the depth of your devotion to the Goddess. As any dedicant knows, repetition of the words used in worship, regardless of the feeling behind them, can lead to a robotic performance of what was once meaningful and reverent prayer. The poetic spirit in these psalms will resound in your soul, granting a new vision of your veneration, a fresh approach to your communion with the deity of your choice.

The following review of The Goddess Book of Psalms appeared in THE COSMIC CAULDRON, an online newsletter, this month:

If you are a Goddess Worshipper, Stregarian Witch, Dianic Wiccan or even a Gnostic, then this book is a must have. It deserves pride and a place on your bookshelf. Not only is it a magnificent book of poetry, but also can only be described as the gospel according to Delia. We have all read about the Christian assimilation of ancient paths, traditions and cultures; well this book turns the tables. It is the Great Mother; The Goddess assimilation of the Catholic and Christian Bible.
A simplistic wandering through some beautiful prose painted with loving grace; a powerful praising of the Mother. Sophia would be proud.
The Goddess Book of Psalms by Patricia Della-Piana (Delia the Crone) can be previewed and purchased at Lulu and at Author's Den at:
http://stores.lulu.com/deliathecrone
http://authorsden.com/patriciadellapiana

Also, from a Librarian in Bloomfield, NJ:
"One of the few things I envy Jews and Christians is their use of the biblical psalms. Most pagan devotional stuff is, frankly, not as good. The Goddess Book of Psalms comes closer than anything else I've read to fill that gap. Some of it parallels the traditional psalms, some is very different, but it is wonderful. I finally have a pagan book for my bedside table that I will be able to use for years. Thank you, Patricia Della-Piana!"