Tradition 35 of 35
Ancient religions, animism, and ritual
Ancient and traditional religious systems, animist and polytheist belief, deities, sacred rites, mystery cults, and historical ritual practices that contextualize magical and esoteric traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 14,367
- Earliest
- 1100
- to 2026
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- 44%
- 6,362 with public full text
- With covers
- 49%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match4,877
- Metadata match260
- Query match9,225
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- God2.1K
- Animals1.9K
- Early works to 18001.8K
- Juvenile fiction907
- Rites and ceremonies891
- History810
- Juvenile literature779
- Providence and government of God752
- Sermons669
- Funeral rites and ceremonies624
- Conduct of life615
- Religion557
- Bible479
- Children471
- Animal welfare462
- Christianity424
- animal magnetism417
- Children's stories380
- Fiction360
- Christian life357
- Natural history339
- Attributes334
- Zoology321
- Cult314
Top languages
- English7,932 · 55%
- German1,498 · 10%
- French1,335 · 9%
- Latin1,255 · 9%
- Italian437 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Harrison Weir40 in this tradition46 books
- Religious Tract Society32 in this tradition66 books
- France. Convention nationale31 books
- Augustine of Hippo26 in this tradition46 books
- Madeline Leslie25 in this tradition26 books
- Samuel G. Goodrich24 in this tradition34 books
- Franz Anton Mesmer23 in this tradition49 books
- Catholic Church22 in this tradition50 books
- Maximillien De Lafayette22 in this tradition24 books
- Martin Luther21 in this tradition129 books
- François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon21 in this tradition49 books
- Emanuel Swedenborg20 in this tradition84 books
14,367 books
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The Golden Bough
James George Frazer, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, William Nicholson
1804
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Facts in mesmerism
Chauncy Hare Townshend, Harry Houdini Collection DLC, Harry Houdini Collection
1840
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The Making of Religion
Andrew Lang, W. Robertson Smith
1884
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The secret teachings of all ages
Manly Palmer Hall, J. Augustus Knapp
1928
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Iamblichus on the mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians
Iamblichus, Porphyry, Thomas Taylor, Iamblichus, approximately 250-approximately 330|* Iamblichus, approximately 250-approximately 330 Iamblichus, approximately 250-approximately 330. De mysteriis. English Iamblichus, Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon, N. Festa Iamblichus, Édouard Des Places
1497
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Le magnétisme animal
Alfred Binet, Charles Féré, Charles Samson Féré, Serge Nicolas, Paul Richer, Bernard Andrieu, Christine Clozza
1887French
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Aradia Or the Gospel of the Witches
Charles Godfrey Leland
1899
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Ancient Divination and Experience
Lindsay Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Lindsay Gayle Driediger-Murphy
2019
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Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin and other commissioners charged by the King of France with the examination of the animal magnetism as now practised at Paris
France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal, Benjamin Franklin, France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal|* Commissaires Chargés par le Roi de l'Examen du Magnétisme Animal, Académie de médecine n 87912798, Paris Descartes University faculty of medicine, French Academy of Sciences, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Faculté de médecine de Paris, Académie des sciences, Royal Society of Medicine
1785
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Teutonic mythology
Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass, Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm], Wilhelm Grimm, Elard Hugo Meyer
1835German
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Egyptian ideas of the future life
E. A. Wallis Budge
1899
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Metamorphoses
Ovid, Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.|* Ovid, John Bond, David King of Hawaii Kalakaua, David Kalakaua, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D Ovid, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Isaac de Benserade, Chauveau, François, Imprimerie royale, Charles Le Brun, Le Clerc, Sébastien, Mabre-Cramoisy, Sébastien, Niklas Holzberg, Len Krisak, Sarah Ruden, Publius Ovidius Publius Ovidius Naso, M.J. Griggs, B. P. Moore, Mary Frederick, Rolfe Humphries, John Dryden, Samuel Garth, Jack Shapiro, Robert Squillace, Frank Justus Miller, Ovidio, Julius Ziehen, Banier (Antoine, M L'Abbe), Lee Fratantuono, A D Melville, Emeritus Kennedy Professor of Latin Fellow E J Kenney, Ovide, William Scovil Anderson, Stephanie McCarter, Gerhard Fink, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig, Jan Minell, Pieter Rabus, John Godwin, Publio Nasone Ovidio, Ovidi, Xavier Mata Oroval, Claude-Pierre Goujet, Claude-Pierre Banier, Publius Ovidius Naso, Edward Brooks, Edward Ovid, Ovidius, Ernest Ensor Publius Ovidius Naso, Pierre Du Ryer, Publio Ovidio Nason, Johannes Minellius, Nathan Bailey, F. J., G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Scatcherd and Whitaker, Mathieu Guillaume Thérès de Villenave, Rudolf Merkel, Ovid Giovanni Andrea Dell' Anguillara, C. Luke Soucy, Joseph Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle, Villenave, Otto Korn, Otto Ovid, J. J. J.J. Howard, Henry Riley, Théodose Burette, Etienne Gros, John Clarke, John Ovid, William Thane Peck, Hermann Johannes Müller, Banier M. l'abbé, Bernard Picart, Arthur Golding, William White, William Seres, J. H. Haydon, Maximus Planudes, Jean François Boissonade, Samuel Sir Garth, Laurence Eusden, Arthur Maynwaring, Samuel Croxall, Nahum Tate, John Gay, Freigius, Moritz Haupt, Ovide Ovide, George Sewell, Ovid Vergil, Ovide ; Georges Lafaye, Rolfe Ovid and Humphries, Ernst Karl Christian Bach, Rudolf Ehwald, Ovidb C -17 or 18 a D, Daniel Crespin, Anton Zingerle, Heinrich Stefan Sedlmayer, José Carlos Fernández Corte, María Josefa Cantó Llorca, Charles Martin, Emily R. Wilson, translated by frank jsutus miller Ovid, Moriz Haupt P. Ovidius Naso, 43 B. C. -17 or 18 A. D. Ovid, Nathan Covington 180 Brooks, José-Román Bravo Díaz, Antonio Ruiz de Elvira Prieto, Bartolomé Segura Ramos, RUBEN INTRODUCION OVIDIO; BONIFAZ NU;O, Publius Ovidius Naso Ovide, Stamperia del Seminario, Henry Thomas Riley, Donald E. Hill, J. R. Jenkinson, K. Sara Myers, Ovid Poet, John Laney, Hermann Breitenbach, Ange-François Fariau de Saint-Ange, Pablo Picasso, Giuseppe Zocchi, Joseph Chamonard, Diedrich Ernest Bosselaar, Thomas Farnaby, Friedrich Polle, Johannes Siebelis, Bernardino Stagnino, Carolus Vivianus, Georges Lafaye, George Sandys, Richard Badger, Johann Raener, Henricus Glareanus, Thomas Purfoot, Charles Simmons, Lodovico Dolce, Jakob Moltzer, Ercole Ciofani, Daniel Heinsius, Nicolaas Heinsius, Pieter Burman, Johann Wilhelm Capoferrius, Charles de Massac, Raymond de Massac, Raffaele Regio, Giovanni de Buonsignore, Luca-Antonio Giunta, William Caxton, George Hibbert, Roxburghe Club, Erich Rösch, Joseph Davidson, Jean Matheus, Isaac Briot, Pierre Firens, Michael Faulte, Gerard Jean-Baptiste Scotin, Antoine Humblot, Virgil Solis, Vasiliĭ Maĭkov, Gerhard Lorich, Marguerite Carnec, Olivier Sers, SparkNotes, Raphaello Regius, Josse Badius, Almeno pseud, Ēlias Tsirinkakēs, Jordi Parramon Blasco, Jacobus Rubeus, Henry N. Heale, Gianpiero Rosati, Giovanna Faranda Villa, Rossella Corti, Nicolas Renouard, Publius Vergilius Maro, Henry King, Karl Hermann Weise, Jorge de Bustamante, Pierre Bellère, William Charles de Meuron Earl Fitzwilliam, Edward Glaser, Giovanni de' Buonsignori, Gregor Bersmann, 'Introductiones' Printer of Nebrissensis, Hannibal Gamon, Arthur Victor Agar-Robartes Viscount Clifden, England) Lanhydrock House (Cornwall, Giovanni Andrea dell' Anguillara, Francesco Turchi, Karl Paul Otto Korn, Johann Balthasar Sedkezki, Stephen Gaselee, H. F. B. Brett-Smith, Pepys Library, Paul Brandt, Gwilym Aneurin Tudor Davies, 43 BCE-18 Ovid, Charbra Adams Jestin, Phyllis B. Katz, [name Missing], Joseph Henry Allen, Harold North Fowler, William Francis Allen, Anonymous, J.H. and W.F. Allen and J.B. Greenough, J. B. Greenough, Thomas Keightley, Rollin Mallory Daggett, Royal College of Physicians of London, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Bernard Salomon, Johannes Spreng, John Grismond, Robert Young, Giorgio de' Rusconi, Jacobus Constantius, Giovanni Battista Egnazio, Giovanni Griffio, Placidus Lactantius, Gilbert de Longueil, Lodovicus Rhodiginus, John Andrews
1474
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Primitive culture
Edward Burnett Tylor, Edward Burnett Sir Tylor, Edward Edward Burnett Tylor
1871
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The Chaldean account of Genesis
George Smith, Archibald Henry Sayce
1876
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The myths of the new world: a treatise on the symbolism and mythology of the red race of America
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Daniel Daniel Garrison Brinton
1868
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The witch-cult in Western Europe
Margaret Alice Murray, Margaret Murray
1921
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Occult Japan
Percival Lowell
1894
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Lee and Shepard, Shepard & Dillingham Lee, John Wilson and Son, Charles Dickens, Anne Collins, Margaret Tarner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Maisha Books, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Storker, M. Bram Stocker, M. Philippe Ballin, Eve Paul-Margueritte in 1920, Bram Stolker, Bram BRAM STOKER, Braum Stoker, BramStoker, Warren Publishing Company, Esis Nem, Paper Mill Press Bram Stoker, Books Tor, Gustavo Aguilera, Classical Comics, Nik Maguire, Moon Dragon, Collectifs, Julio Rodríguez Puértolas, Hutchinson Emily, Period Time Publishing, D. P. Stevens Edition, Bryan Hunt, A. J. Alexander, Classic Collections, Stoker, Heinz Widtmann, Yordi Abreu, Bi Classics, Alex Stewart, Si tuo ke, BRAM STOCKER - E. NOBATI, Tabib Haider, Bram Stroker, Matthew Corrigan, Bram Stocker, Fernando Fernández, Anna Gasol Trullols, Andrew Struthers, Bram Bram, HellBound Books Publishing LLC, Christina Widmann, Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling, Howard Pyle, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, George Alfred Williams, Arthur Rackham, John Leech, Howard Bloom, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Danide, Núria Pradas, Carmen Gil, Juan Antonio Molina Foix, Mario Montalbán, Leonard Wolf, ClassyBookRead, Destinyalready Creative Writing Ink, Fay Weldon, Bess Georges, Alba Pagán, David Stuart Davies, David Rogers, A. R. S. BEL, Ferdinand Du Chevalier, Abraham Stoker, Sarah Prescott, Alex Rouse, Bram Stoke, A. Nessi, Liz Lochhead, Lewis; Tenniel Carroll
1800
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Instruction pratique sur le magnétisme animal
Joseph Philippe François Deleuze, Johann Ferdinand Koreff, Thomas Thomas Coles Hartshorn, Pierre Foissac, Thomas C Hartshorn
1825French
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The Philosophy of Spiritual Intercourse: Being an Explanation of Modern Mysteries
Andrew Jackson Davis, Andrew Jackson. Author Davis
1851
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Letter to Doctor A. Brigham on animal magnetism
William L. Stone, William William Leete Stone, Harry Houdini Collection DLC, Amariah Brigham, Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection, Sr William Leete Stone, Loraina Brackett, Harry Houdini Collection
1837
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Atlantis
Ignatius Donnelly, Egerton Sykes
1882
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Etruscan Roman remains in popular tradition
Charles Godfrey Leland
1892
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Curious creatures in zoology
John Ashton
1890