A modern oracle and its prototypes
a study in catoptromancy
- First published:
- 19th century
- Language: English
- Content type: Primary source
pages 25-37 ; 24 cm Cover title Reprinted from Journal of American folk-lore, vol. VI, no. 1, 1893 "Read at the Annual Meeting of the American Folk-Lore Society, held in Boston December 28-29, 1892."
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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles and Occultism and esotericism.
Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the subject metadata.
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Retained metadata contains “oracle” in the title and “oracle” in the edition title.
- “oracle”· in title
- “oracle”· in edition title
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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
a study in catoptromancy Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan | 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z | New York : [publisher not identified] | English | — | Public digitized item |
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- Contributing institution: U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
- Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary; usnationallibraryofmedicine
- Catalog id
- internet-archive:101737283.nlm.nih.gov
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