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
- Read free
- 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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Four dissertations
Richard Price
1767
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Hartford daily courant
A.N. Clark & Co
1865
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Journal f©œr animal magnetism
Pehr Gustaf Cederschjöld
1815Swedish
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Myths & legends of Babylonia & Assyria
Lewis Spence, Evelyn Paul
1916
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Observations on the principal medical institutions and practice of France, Italy and Germany
Edwin Lee, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
1835
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Physiologie, médecine et métaphysique du magnétisme
Jules Charpignon
1841French
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Religionsgeschichtliche Studien zur Frage
Georg Wobbermin
1896German
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Is the Shang-ti of the Chinese classics the same being as Jehovah of the Sacred Scriptures? ..
Andrew Patton Happer
1877
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Mémoire
Franz Anton Mesmer
1799French
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Orazione di M. Francesco Bocchi sopra le lodi dell'illustrissimo signor Lorenzo Saluiati, marchese di Giuliano
Francesco Bocchi
1610Italian
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Angels messages
Ellen E. Ward, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1875
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De natura deorum, libri tres
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De natura decorum. Latin Cicero
1880
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Galena weekly gazette
J. B. Brown
1865
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I sontvosi fvnerali fatti fare dall'illvstriss. et eccellent. s. dvca d'Alborqverqve, governatore dello stato di Milano, et capitan generale per Sva Maesta Catholica in Italia, in Milano
Ascanio Centorio
1568Italian
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Locupletissimus thesaurus continens varias et selectissimas benedictiones, conjurationes, exorcismos, absolutiones, ritus, administrationem sacramentorum, aliorúmque munerum pastoralium, ad utilitatem Christi fidelium, & commodiorem usum parochorum, omniúmque sacerdotum, tam saecularium, quàm religiosorum curam habentium ex diversis ritualibus et probatissimis authoribus. Locupletior & correctior redditus
Gelasius di Cilia, Gelasius von Cilia
1744German
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Paganisme des hébreux jusqu'à la captivité de Babylone
Émile Ferrière, Ferrière, Émile, b. 1830
1884French
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The general and particular principles of animal electricity and magnetism, &c. in which are found Dr. Bell's secrets and practice, as Delivered To His Pupils In Paris, London, Dublin, Bristol, Glocester, Worcester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c.&c. Shewing how to Magnetise and Cure different Diseases; to produce Crises, as well as Somnambulism, or Sleep-Walking; and in that State of Sleep to make a Person eat, drink, walk, sing and play upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees, and other Bodies, animate and inanimate; to raise the Arms, Legs of a Person awake, and to make him rise from his Chair; to raise the Arm of a Person absent from one Room to another; also to treat him at a Distance. All the New Experiments and Phenomena are explained
John professor of animal magnetism Bell, University of Glasgow. Library
1792
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Vetvstissimae tabvlae aeneae sacris Aegyptiorum simulachris coelatae accurata explicatio
Lorenzo Pignoria
1605Latin
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Description du mausolée de très-haute ... princesse, Marie-Charlotte-Sophie-Félicité Leszczynska, reine de France
Charles-Michel-Ange Challes, Denis Pierre Jean Papillon de La Ferté
1768French
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Descrizzione della traslazione del corpo di Santo Antonino arcivescovo di Firenze
Tommaso Buoninsegni
1589Italian
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Esequie della maesta cesarea dell'imperatore Leopoldo I
Tommaso Buonaventuri, Anton Maria Albizzini, Antonio Ferri, Gioan Antonio Lorenzini
1705Italian
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L'antimagn©♭tisme, ou origine, progr©·s, d©♭cadence, renouvellement et r©♭futation du magn©♭tisme animal ...
Jean-Jacques Paulet
1784French
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Lettres physiologiques et morales sur le magnétisme animal, contenant l'exposé critique des expériences les plus récentes, et une nouvelle théorie sur ses causes, ses phénomènes et ses applications a la médecine ...
Jean Amédée Dupau
1826French
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Oracion funebre que en la solemne parentacion que celebró la R. Universidad de S. Marcos de esta corte de Lima, por el alma de nuestro inclito y sábio monárca el señor D. Carlos III rey de las Españas, y emperador de las Indias
José Miguel Durán, Luis Montt
1790Spanish