✨ Italian Folk Magic and Shamanism: A Course in the Tradition of Segnature ✨

I’m Dr Angela Puca, and I’m beyond excited to finally share this with you.

This is not just another witchcraft course. It’s the first and only course on Segnature taught live by the only Italian and only academic who has studied this tradition systematically, academically, and from within.

Over 11 live Zoom sessions, I’ll guide you through the real history and living practice of Italian folk magic. We’ll look at how it survived persecution, how it intertwines with Catholicism, and how it functions as a form of indigenous Italian shamanism. I’ll show you the healing signs, words, and gestures passed down in secrecy, and we’ll explore spells for love, protection, prosperity, and ancestral work—always rooted in ethical, respectful practice.

I’ve already published on this topic with Brill, and I’m currently writing a new book with never-before-shared material from my fieldwork. And in this course? I’m sharing that research with you first.

⚠️ This will very likely be the only time I run this course live.

You’ll have direct access to me, Q&As, recordings, and community support on my private Discord.

We start on Saturday, July 19th.

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👉 Sign up now at https://drangelapuca.com/courses

Let’s walk this path of our ancestors together.

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In this special episode—presented for the first time in Italian with (ala, literal and not always accurate) English subtitles—Dr Angela Puca is joined by Emanuele Viotti, founder of Ad Maiora Vertite, for a discussion on the religion of ancient Rome.

Emanuele Viotti is a respected educator and independent scholar in the field of Roman traditional religion. Since founding Ad Maiora Vertite in 2012, he has authored and curated numerous publications—often in collaboration with academics—on Roman religiosity. Viotti lectures on Roman religion at the Centro Nazionale di Studi Classici GrecoLatinoVivo, where his courses are recognised by Italy’s Ministry of Education. He has presented at academic conferences, contributes to the rediscovery of Italian heritage through historically themed guided tours, and was awarded the Rimini–Europa in the World international culture prize in 2023 for his work on Roman tradition and historical outreach.

Topics explored include:

– The distinction between orthopraxy and orthodoxy in Roman religiosity

– The numinous and the function of sacra privata vs. sacra publica

– Ritual precision, priesthoods, and everyday cultic practice

– The transmission of religious knowledge in domestic and civic spaces

– Local religious variation across the Roman world

– Misconceptions surrounding figures like Diana and “Lucifer”

– The challenges and potentials of reconstructing Roman religion today

This episode also critically examines how Roman religion functioned as a pragmatic, ritual-based system without imposed theological dogma, contrasting sharply with post-Nicene Christianity. Emanuele Viotti offers rare insights into original Latin sources, epigraphic evidence, and the ritual economy of the Roman world, while discussing how Roman traditionalism is interpreted and lived in contemporary contexts.

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Bibliography provided by Emanuele 📚

About Roman Religion:

- G. Dumezil, La religion romaine archaïque, avec un'appendice sur la religion des Étrusques. Parigi, Payot, 1964

- J. Sheid, Quand faire, c'est croire. Les rites sacrificiels des Romains, Editions Aubier, coll. «Historique», Parigi, 2005

- J. Rupke, Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion, Princeton University Press, 2018

- D. Sabbatucci, La religione di Roma antica: dal calendario festivo all'ordine cosmico, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 1988

- L. Ferro, M. Monteleone, Miti Romani: il racconto, Einaudi, 2010

- M. Bettini, Dèi e uomini nella città. Antropologia, religione e cultura nella Roma antica, Roma, Carocci, 2015

E. Viotti, La Via Romana agli Dèi: la storia, i miti, le fondamenta e i riti della religione romana oggi, Armenia, 2022

About Moon goddeses:

- Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, Theologiae Graecae compendium, 34

- N. Serafini, La dea Diana nell'Ars Amatoria: Ovidio e la tradizione greca, in EVPHROSYNE, 41, 2013, 131-146

- N. Serafini, Antichi dèi, oggi: la Ecate dei neo-pagani, Minerva 27 (2014), 203-225

- (JUST FOR RECONSTRUCTION, NOT VALID ANYMORE FOR THE ANALYSIS) J. Frazer, The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, 1915

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Why does Paganism attract so many LGBTQ+ people—and how are queer practitioners reshaping Pagan traditions from within?

In this in-depth episode, Dr Angela Puca draws on extensive academic research and ethnographic evidence to explore the powerful intersection of queerness and contemporary Paganism. We’ll examine why decentralised structures, ritual flexibility, and the sacralisation of the body make Paganism particularly resonant for queer seekers. From feminist Wicca to trans-inclusive magical circles, and from the mythic play of the Minoan Brotherhood to the controversies surrounding Dianic Witchcraft, this episode uncovers the theological innovations and spiritual practices that queer Pagans are creating.

Drawing on scholarship by Sarah Pike, Melissa Wilcox, Robert Wallis, Martin Lepage, Kathryn Rountree, and many others, this lecture explores topics such as gender alchemy, ritual storytelling, queer reinterpretations of myth, and the embodied politics of magical practice. It also problematises the gender polarity model in traditional Wicca and explores how LGBTQ+ practitioners are queering divinity itself.

Join us for a critical and compassionate conversation about how Paganism becomes not only a refuge for LGBTQ+ individuals but also a space of radical religious creativity.

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REFERENCES 📚

Berger, H. A., Leach, E. A., & Shaffer, L. S. (2003). Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.

Clifton, C. S. (2006). Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

Coyle, T. T. (2012). Snapshots: Musings on polarity and flow. In S. Thompson, G. Pond, P. Tanner, et al. (Eds.), Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism (pp. 91–92). Circle of Cerridwen Press.

Eller, C. (1993). Living in the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Helix. (2012). Polarity without gender. In S. Thompson, G. Pond, P. Tanner, et al. (Eds.), Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism (pp. 35–40). Circle of Cerridwen Press.

Kaldera, R. (2012). The third voice. In S. Thompson, G. Pond, P. Tanner, et al. (Eds.), Gender and Transgender in Modern Paganism (pp. 75–86). Circle of Cerridwen Press.

Lepage, M. (2013). A Lokian family: Queer and Pagan agency in Montreal. The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, 15(1–2), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v15i1–2.1

Mueller, M. (2017). The chalice and the rainbow: Conflicts between women’s spirituality and transgender rights in US Wicca in the 2010s. In I. B. (Eds.), Female Leaders in New Religious Movements (pp. 249–268). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

(check the last slide on screen for the complete bibliography)

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