The Nankin Township Historical Society

I won't belabor the Gundella letter thing too much (but will leave it for my blog on her ) and will leave the subject for the time being after this post. This letter seemingly indicates that Truzzi and Gundella first corresponded in October of 1969 and likely met shortly thereafter. There's nothing groundbreaking in the letter from my standpoint since I've researched Gundella for close to 10 years but a few things of note are as follows. 1. That her sister believed that she was less-than-authentic and was too theatrical, despite not being a witch herself (many relatives were including their mother, grandmother and great grandmother, among others so the sister was aware of how a witch "should" behave.). 2. That she was partial to Italian men! She was not only a ham but also a flirt. Good to know.

They often misspelled her name! Eastern Michigan University was fortunate enough to have renown sociologist Marcello Truzzi on their staff and when he died his papers were donated to the institution. Among those were many letters to Gundella the Witch (Truzzi had brought her to local and national prominence a few years beforehand and the two became good friends), both for her Witch Watch column in the Observer newspapers and personal correspondences asking for spells, that Truzzi was using for a study. Hundreds of letters, in fact. Fortunately for me I have a co-worker who goes to school there and was willing to grab me some photos of a few of the letters. Originally, I had wanted them scanned but seeing the photos that she sent makes me realize that they are better seen as is. Since I'm likely going to EMU today to gather some of the Gundella letters so as not to overburden my "colleague" (as the librarian referred to my co-worker in an e-mail; laughably since I'm...