“[T]he Kirk of Scotland as at present guidit […] is a kind o' Papery wi' fifty Papes instead o' ane.”

—  John Buchan , book Witch Wood

Source: Witch Wood (1927), Ch. XVII "Woodilee and Calidon"

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