1. Janet Farrar has been one of the most public faces of Wicca, having appeared as a model for book covers and illustrations in several of the best-read books on the subject.
12 Facts About Janet Farrar
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Janet Farrar is a frequent guest lecturer on the subjects of Wicca, Neopaganism and witchcraft in North America and Europe.
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Janet Farrar attended the Leyton Manor School, and the Royal Wanstead High School girls' school.
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Janet Farrar was initiated into Alexandrian Wicca by the tradition's founders, Alex and Maxine Sanders.
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Janet Farrar met the Sanders in 1970 through a friend who had become interested in exploring Wicca.
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Janet and Stewart Farrar were both elevated to the second degree "in an unoccupied house in Sydenham" by the Sanders on 17 October 1970, and they received the third, and final, degree of initiation in their flat on 24 April 1971.
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Janet Farrar left the coven in 1972 to explore Kabbala with a ceremonial magic lodge, but returned the same year.
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Janet Farrar continued to model and appeared in the illustrations to multiple early books about Wicca, including the cover of the paperback version of Margot Adler's 1979 Drawing Down the Moon.
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Janet Farrar posed for many of the photographs in their 1981 Eight Sabbats for Witches, which included material the authors claimed to be from the Alexandrian tradition's Book of Shadows.
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Janet Farrar indicates that some of the rituals contained in the couple's books were actually written by them, and that they left the Alexandrian tradition after the book's research was complete.
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Stewart Janet Farrar died in February 2000 after a brief illness.
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Janet Farrar has co-authored a number of books about Wicca and Neopaganism.