The Gnostic tradition was a prolific source of apocryphal gospels. The result is amusingly described in the following apocryphal anecdote. He excluded what he called "apocryphal writings" entirely. There was an illuminating, though probably apocryphal, anecdote about this. Among Anglicanism, Anglo-Catholics consider it to be either an apocryphal or deuterocanonical book. They believed that several of the apocryphal Scriptures were genuine and inspired. There are many anecdotes, some pretty obviously apocryphal, about these meetings. A number of apocryphal sayings were attributed to him. Many purported crash blossoms are apocryphal or recycled. It claims to embrace secrets contained within the apocryphal Book of Enoch. These councils also provided the canon of the Old Testament, which included the apocryphal books. Thus the respect accorded to apocryphal books varied between Protestant denominations. The system claims to relate to secrets contained within the apocryphal Book of Enoch. His name first appeared in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. It was introduced amongst the Westerns from the Apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus.