- Ritual magic and grimoires
- Astrology
- Prophecy, oracles, and revelation
- Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends
Letters on the truths contained in popular superstitions
by Herbert Mayo & Harry Houdini Collection DLC
- First published:
- 19th century
- Languages: English, NOT
- Content type: Primary source
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. "The original letters appeared in Blackwood's magazine in 1847 ...": prefatory remarks
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Astrology, Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends, Prophecy, oracles, and revelation, and Ritual magic and grimoires.
Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library matched “Magie” and “Zauberei”.
- “Magie”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
- “Zauberei”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library matched “Astrologie”.
- “Astrologie”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library matched “Weissagungen”.
- “Weissagungen”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Superstition”. Retained metadata contains “Superstition” in the subject metadata.
- “Superstition”· via Internet Archive
- “Superstition”· via Open Library
- “Superstition”· in subject
Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.
Read & download
Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.
- PDF (opens in a new tab)
- PDF (opens in a new tab)
- PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Online reader (opens in a new tab)
Publicly readable scan; copyright status may vary by jurisdiction. Publicly accessible item; copyright status was not independently determined.
Item-level rights statement: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
Not yet in passage search
Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.
marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.
Buy or borrow
- Find on Amazon (opens in a new tab)
- Find in a library (opens in a new tab)
- Open Library (opens in a new tab)
No ISBN on record, so the Amazon link searches by title and author. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.
Editions
2 editions cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bavarian State Library digitized rare-book edition Digitized image count: 158; Extent: 128 S. 8"; Shelfmark: Phys.m. 167 p | 1849 | Frankfurt o/M. : Sauerlaender [usw.]; Sauerlaender [usw.] | NOT | — | Public iiif reader | |
Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan | 1849 | Frankfort o/M. : John David Sauerlænder ; Edinburgh : Messrs. Blackwood; Frankfort o/M., J. D. Sauerlænder; [etc.,etc.]; J. D. Sauerlænder; [etc.,etc.] | English | — | Public |
Subjects
Identifiers & provenance
How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.
Identifiers
- Open Library work
- Internet Archive
- Bavarian State Library
Cataloged from
- Bavarian State Library Digital Collectionsbsb10132811 (opens in a new tab)
- Internet Archivelettersontruths00mayogoog (opens in a new tab)
- Internet Archivelettersontruths01mayogoog (opens in a new tab)
- Internet Archivelettersontruths02mayogoog (opens in a new tab)
- Open LibraryOL5224679W (opens in a new tab)
Found via
Cataloging notes
- B3Kat identifier: BV020449855
- Bavarian State Library shelfmark: Phys.m. 167 p
- Contributing institution: Harvard University
- Contributing institution: Oxford University
- Contributing institution: University of Michigan
- Digitization license: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
- Digitization sponsor: Google
- 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.
- Holding institution or provenance: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- Publication place: Frankfurt o/M.
- Scanner: google
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL5224679W
- Edition coverage
- Multi source partial
- Retrieved










