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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The danger of premature interment
Joseph Taylor, University of Glasgow. Library
1816
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Vital magnetism: its power over disease
Frederick T. Parson, Frederick T. [from old catalog] Parson
1877
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The social organization and the secret societies of the Kwakiutl Indians
Franz Boas, George Hunt, George. [from old catalog] Hunt, George George McMonies Hunt, United States National Museum
1895
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A history of mourning
Richard Davey
1800
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Curious church customs and cognate subjects
William Andrews, J. Charles Cox
1895
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Hours with the mystics
Robert Alfred Vaughan
1856
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Le imagini de gli dei de gli antichi
Vincenzo Cartari, Cesare Malfatti, Bolognino Zaltieri, Filippo Ferroverde, Lorenzo Pignoria, Antoine Du Verdier, Paulus Hachenberg
1599Italian
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Mythical monsters
Charles Gould
1886
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Sculptured tombs of Hellas
Percy Gardner
1896
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The Blood Covenant
H. Clay Trumbull
1885
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The myths of Greece & Rome
Hélène Adeline Guerber, H. A. d. 1929 Guerber
1893
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Mesmer et le magnétisme animal
Ernest Bersot
1853French
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A discourse on the worship of Priapus, and its connection with the mystic theology of the ancients
Richard Payne Knight, Thomas Wright
1865
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Neurypnology
James Braid, University of Glasgow. Library
1843
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Aristotle
Aristotle, 384-322 B.C Aristotle, Hermann Bonitz, Thomas Taylor, J. H. von Kirchmann, Wilhelm von Christ
1476Latin
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The Eleusinian and Bacchic mysteries
Thomas Taylor, Northrop Frye, Albert Leighton Rawson, Alexander Wilder
1875
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Mysteria
Otto Henne am Rhyn, Joseph Fitzgerald
1895
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Animal magnetism and somnambulism
Adolphe Didier, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1856
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Psychology, Hypnotism, Personal Magnetism and Clairvoyance ..
William Abner Barnes, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1898
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The religious system of the Amazulu
Henry Callaway
1868
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Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal
Franz Anton Mesmer
1779French
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Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
Jane Ellen Harrison
1908
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Bertrand Russell
1917
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An essay on a non-descript, or newly-invented disease; its nature, causes, and means of relief. With some very important observations on the most surprizing effects of animal magnetism in the cure of the said disease
Adair James Makittrick, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1728-1802 Adair James Makittrick
1790