[dragonwriter]

> It maintained an underground existence, however, in all probability up to Muslim times as the constant attacks on it in the Pahlavi books show

I don’t know thr actual history at all here, but the logic here seems dangerous; the repeated attacks on the “witchcraft” that was intimately described and attacked in European Christian documents aren’t evidence that it continued to exist (or ever existed in the form described) throughout the period those documents were written.