sentences:  High Priestess Doreen Valiente made the claim that Gardner found the term "Book of Shadows" from a 1949 edition (Volume I, Number 3) of a magazine known as "The Occult Observer".In this edition, she claimed, was an advertisement for Gardner's novel, "High Magic's Aid", which was opposite an article titled "The Book of Shadows" written by the palmist Mir Bashir.The article in question was about an allegedly ancient Sanskrit divination manual which explained how to foretell things based upon the length of a person's shadow.