Note 291 — Chapter III · THE ORIGIN OF GNOSTICISM
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Thus the German Reformation, which (whatever be its merits) was certainly accompanied by a general questioning of ideas till then considered the very basis of all religion, was followed by the terrible outbreak known as the Witch Mania of the XVIth century. See Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions, 1869, pp. 101-191. Other authorities are quoted in “Witchcraft in Scotland,” Scottish Review, 1891, pp. 257-288.