The Secret Societies Of All Ages And Countries - Charles William Heckethorn (1897)

THE
SECRET SOCIETIES
OF ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES
A Comprehensive Account of upwards of One Hundred
and Sixty Secret Organisations-Religious, Political,
and Social-from the most Remote Ages
down to the Present Time
Embracing the Mysteries of Ancient India, China, Japan, Egypt, Mexico,
Peru, Greece, and Scandinavia, the Cabbalists, Early Christians,
Heretics, Assassins, Thugs, Templars, the Vehm and
Inquisition, Mystics, Rosicrucians, Illuminati, Free-
masons, Skopzi, Camorristi, Carbonari, Nihilists,
Fenians, French, Spanish,
And other Mysterious Sects