{"product_id":"aradia","title":"Aradia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf Gerald Brosseau Gardner is the father of the religion that calls itself Wicca, then Charles Godfrey Leland is the grandfather of Witchcraft as a religion in the English-speaking world, and his small book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAradia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is that religion’s birth-announcement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the first work in English in which Witchcraft is portrayed as an underground old religion, surviving in secret from ancient Pagan times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil now \u003ci\u003eAradia\u003c\/i\u003e has been a work more often cited than read. Its first edition (1899) garnered only one review, and sank from sight like a stone cast into murky waters\/ it sold poorly and is now a rare book. By chance a copy fell into the hands of Theda Kenyon, who devoted a few pages to it in her sensational \u003ci\u003eWitches Still Live\u003c\/i\u003e (1929), thereby calling it to the attention of many readers. By the 1950s Doreen Valiente had read \u003ci\u003eAradia\u003c\/i\u003e, and she incorporated some of its most beautiful passages into the Wiccan rituals that she wrote. In the ’60s and ’70s it was reprinted four times, but always from a defective copy of the first edition that had lost its last page. Only in the ’90s did another reprint finally restore the missing page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Wheel Weiser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44631610523804,"sku":"400000442198","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/6101\/6988\/files\/Image91_0638c5e1-31c9-4243-8a83-b89fec05f8fb.jpg?v=1788903082","url":"https:\/\/herbsandarts.com\/products\/aradia","provider":"Herbs and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}