Secret Societies: Inside the World's Most Notorious Organizations (49 page)

meaning of word, 216

membership, 220

origins, 215

as re-emergence of witchcraft, 215–16

secrecy, 219–20, 228

and shamanism, 215–16

Williams, Rowan, 73

witchcraft.
See also
Wicca

and Catholic Church, 211–12

and Christianity, 210–11

and Druidism, 209, 211

in Europe, 214

evidence proving, 213–14

history, 209

in United States, 214

Wooley, Knight, 240, 242

World Trade Center, 42

Wren, Christopher, 141

Y

Yakuza, 158, 168

clothing, 204

drugs, 206

effect of, 253

extortion, 206–7

initiation, 205

lessening influence, 207

methods of punishment, 200, 203–4

name derivation, 203

origins, 200–203

preferred automobiles, 205

prostitution rings, 206

size, 206

smuggling, 206

structure, 205

tattoos, 204

Yeats, William Butler, 109–10, 131

Table of Contents

Cover

Halftitle

Title

Copyright

Dedication

William Blake

Contents

Introduction

One The Assassins

Two Templars, Illuminati and Freemasons

Three Priory of Sion

Four Druids and Gnostics

Five Kabbalah

Six Rosicrucians

Seven Triads

Eight The Mafia and Cosa Nostra

Nine Yakuza

Ten Wicca

Eleven Skull & Bones

Twelve Secret Societies in Popular Culture

Thirteen Critics, Alarmists and Conspiracy Theorists

Afterword

Notes

Picture Credits

Acknowledgments

Index