The Raven Watched is an occult fable a couple of family members of witches who belong to the Strega non secular culture of Italy. Their history reaches again to the earliest civilizations, following ladies via historical past who've been both respected as Goddesses or persecuted as Witches for his or her therapeutic and mysterious religious traditions. girls of the Rimini extended family in Italy, were the best lighting within the Strega culture for lots of generations. yet now, Sophia, the present excessive Priestess, is loss of life and the subsequent Priestess is but to be stumbled on and informed. Sophia is distraught, for she has no daughters of her personal and the culture holds that the road needs to cross into an analogous kin or it dies out. finally 3 grand-nieces arrive from the USA with their mom and dad on the family's historical villa in Italy. every one is drawn into studying mysteries of this magical position. Fourteen year-old Kara struggles along with her doubts and suspicions opposed to magic and witchcraft with a purpose to face a few very harmful demanding situations. 9 year-old Mimi meets and makes buddies with a couple of magical creatures instantly. Seventeen year-old Joanna is brought to the mysteries via a romantic reference to contributors of an underground religious theatrical circulation. All 3 ladies in addition to their mom and aunt event desires and visions during which they research tales of respected ladies from their ancestry. Their father, in spite of the fact that, is adamantly against the non secular witch traditions and creates a continuing crisis to their growth. eventually, the pageant of Beltane brings all people head to head with the Malandanti and the evil Wizard.

The motion happens within the 1970's in Italy, within the Campagnia coastal and Apennines mountain area among Rome and Naples. The focal website is a fictional historical villa equipped into the hills overlooking the Tyrrhenion Sea. close to the villa is a hidden grotto accessed by means of 3 varied tunnels: one from the villa, one from a mountain cave, and one from a run-down cottage far better within the mountains. All are websites of old secrets and techniques conventional to the legends of the Rimini extended family of witches. Their lineage lines again to the 1st Etruscan settlements at the Italian peninsula, and ahead of them to the Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian and Indus civilizations. The kinfolk lineage is contrived for the tale, yet follows legends and myths from historical past. Heroines from biblical tales in addition to these from old pagan religions look as representatives of the women's prior lives. The matriarch speaks and sends messages from the Otherworld, and reincarnation is an important subject of the tale. Magical creatures comparable to a ghost and a fairy play roles in general tale, in addition to wild and family animals who converse with people and are, themselves, major characters. ideals and myths of witchcraft, and the Christian spiritual proscriptions that flatter them, together with the misogynous attitudes opposed to girls in strength all through historical past, are a valuable subject matter of the story.