{"product_id":"the-horned-god","title":"Herne","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe was the king's huntsman, and the best of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWindsor Forest, the reign of Richard II. A stag turned on the king and Herne put himself between them, took the wound meant for his master, and was dying on the forest floor when a stranger came out of the trees and offered a cure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt worked. The stranger cut the antlers from the dead stag and bound them to Herne's head, and he stood up alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut there is no such thing as a free cure. The price was the thing he was best at — his skill with the hunt, taken from him the moment he was healed. The other huntsmen turned on him. He was disgraced, and he went out into the forest and hanged himself from an oak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is where it should have ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstead he came back. Antlers still on him, riding through Windsor at night at the head of a hunt nobody wants to meet, and men have reported seeing him for six hundred years. Shakespeare put him in a play in 1597 and wrote about him as something the locals already knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn oak fell in Windsor Great Park in 1863. They still call it Herne's Oak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoured solid in one piece, antlers and all, then oxidized deep so the face comes forward out of the metal. Bearded, and older than it looks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey took everything he was good at. He kept the antlers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolid .999 fine silver, hand poured\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e33mm tall × 30mm wide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand-oxidized recesses, polished high points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4mm black braided leather cord, 22\", gunmetal magnetic barrel clasp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned Certificate of Authenticity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoured and finished in Northfield, Vermont\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorn for a lifetime. Passed to the next.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vancroft \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280385192157,"sku":"VC-OG-HERNE-999","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/3774\/7421\/files\/horned_god_product_photo.png?v=1785385829","url":"https:\/\/www.vancroftco.com\/products\/the-horned-god","provider":"Vancroft\u0026Co","version":"1.0","type":"link"}