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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Nights with Uncle Remus
Joel Chandler Harris, Milo Winter
1883
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Scatalogic Rites of all Nations
John Gregory Bourke
1891
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The Evolution of the Dragon
Grafton Elliot Smith
1919
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The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
Franz Cumont
1958
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The book of the dead
E. A. Wallis Budge, David Lorimer, Foy Scalf, Paul Mirecki
1894
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The Gentile and the Jew in the courts of the Temple of Christ
Nahum Capen, Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, Nicholas Darnell
1848
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Trials of animal magnetism on the brute creation
John Wilson, John physician to the Middlesex hospital Wilson
1839
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Des hallucinations, ou, Histoire raisonnée des apparitions, des visions, des songes, de l'extase, du magnétisme et du somnambulisme
Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont, John Thomas Arlidge, Royal College of Physicians of London
1845French
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Sod, the Mysteries of Adoni (Secret Doctrine Reference Series)
Samuel Fales Dunlap
1861
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Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire et à l'établissement du magnétisme animal
A.-M.-J Chastenet marquis de Puységur, A.-M.-Armand-Marie-Jacques Chastenet de Puységur, Amand Marc Jacques de Chastenet Puységur
1784French
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Catholic ceremonies and explanation of the ecclesiastical year
Alfred Durand
1896
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Invocation Of Saints And Angels
Orby Shipley
1869
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Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1
Andrew Lang
1877
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Parentacion solemne, que al nombre augusto, y real memoria de la catholica reyna de las Españas, y emperatriz de las Indias, la serenissima señora doña Maria Amalia de Saxonia, mandò hacer en esta santa iglesia Cathedral de Los Reyes, Lima, corte del Perù, el dia 27. de junio de 1761
Victoriano Cuenca
1761Basque
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Polymetis
Joseph Spence, James Dodsley, Paul Fourdrinier, Robert Horsfield, Nicholas Tindal
1747
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Sea phantoms
Fletcher S. Bassett
1892
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The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema
Pao-chen Tang
2025
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The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses...
Jean-Frédéric Bernard, Bernard Picart
1733
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The hereafter
James Fyfe
1890
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The wheat and the chaff
J. S. White
1852
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An introduction to the fifth book of Hooker's treatise Of the laws of ecclesiastical polity
Francis Paget
1899
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Physico-physiological researches on the dynamics of magnetism, electricity, heat, light, crystallization, and chemism, in their relations to vital force
Karl Freiherr von Reichenbach, Karl Reichenbach, John Ashburner, Royal College of Physicians of London
1850
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Old-world Japan
Frank Rinder
1895
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Translations
William Raymond Gingell
1852