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
Nursery poetry
Emily Augusta Patmore
1859
Of the markes of the children of God, and of their comforts in afflictions
Jean Taffin
1590
Old friends and new faces
Joseph Martin Kronheim
1870
Old nursery tales and popular stories
Robert Dudley
1875
Old wonder-eyes and other stories for children
Grace Greenwood
1858
Older than Adam
C. S. Guild
1860
Olive's friends
Helena Maguire
1898
On the Third Commandment
1818
On the trail of the moose
Edward Sylvester Ellis
1892
One hundred cottage stories for boys
Melville
1860
One hundred cottage stories for girls
Melville
1851
One hundred fables
James Northcote
1827
One hundred picture fables
Otto Speckter
1864
Original fables
Prosser Mrs
1870
Original travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen
Alfred Crowquill
1889
Otto Speckter's fable book
Otto Speckter
1845
Our animal friends in picture and story
Harrison Weir, Stanley Berkeley, W. A. Cranston, Frank Reller
1896
Our baby's ABC
William J. Rigney
1891
Our brownies' ABC
Palmer Cox
1898
Our children's pets
Joséphine
1867
Our children's pets
Josephine author of Our children's pets
1865
Our farm-yard friends
Kronheim & Co
1887
Our four-footed friends
Mary Botham Howitt
1867
Our gold mine at Hollyhurst
Mary Matthews Bray
1893