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Part One: Chapter III--FERONIA (0 words) |
 | "Feronia was an old woman who went about begging in the country, yet she always had a gran pulitica--that is, she was intelligent or shrewd or very cunning in manners--and, as one would have believed, she was a witch. |
| Taking her altogether, Feronia appears to be exactly what such a goddess would naturally come to be in the minds of the people at a stage while they still believed in and feared her, and before she had sunk to a mere reminiscence in a Märchen. |
| One thing is apparent both in the ancient and modern Feronia, that she is, or was, a protector and friend of the poor, one of slaves and refugees, as now of paupers. |
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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Feronia (goddess) (290 words) |
| Slaves regarded Feronia as a goddess of freedom, and believed that sitting on a holy stone in one of her sanctuaries would set them free. |
| The unrelated Feralia on February 21 is a festival of Jupiter "Feretrius," not Feronia. |
| In Etruscan mythology, Feronia was a goddess of fire and fertility. |
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