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Chapter 9 - Masonic and Anti-Masonic Literature
The first four cards on the page before are copyrighted by Phoenixmasonry,
the others are auction items and mostly stem from the famous National series
from England, dated 1908. The card showing a badly bruised Mason describes
his state after having ridden the goat. The last card is a vintage anti-Catholic
postcard ("the revolt of the clergy, departure for the holy war") from France,
showing a Catholic priest riding a goat and giving the admonition to the "sisters"
to secure the liturgical objects, among which are a broom, a pneumatic pump, a
bottle with holy water, a monstrance, a pot with the imprint of the all-seeing eye,
and diverse other items.
While in America and England such items are ill-famous, we could not find a
single reference to goat riding in German Masonic literature or folk art, which