A Goddess Arrives

A Goddess Arrives

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name = A Goddess Arrives
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author = Gerald Gardner
country = United Kingdom
language = English
genre = History
publisher = Various
release_date = 1939
isbn =

"A Goddess Arrives", is the first novel of Gerald Gardner, the "father of Wicca". It is a historical novel, largely being set in ancient Cyprus. The book only briefly features witchcraft in it.

ynopsis

A modern-day man experiences past-life memories of the Egyptian invasion of Cyprus. The heroine of the novel is a queen of Cyprus, and does practise witchcraft that resembles medaeival ceremonial magic.


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