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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Gatherings from grave yards
George Alfred Walker, King's College London, Thomas's Hospital. Medical School Library former owner
1839
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Shaʻare orah
Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla
1500Hebrew
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Spiritual, or magnetic forces
Charles Holland
1882
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Histoire académique du magnétisme animal
Charles Burdin, Frédéric Dubois, Dubois, Frédéric,1797--1873
1841French
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The Tshi-speaking peoples of the gold Coast of West Africa
Alfred Burdon Ellis
1887
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The cults of the Greek states
Lewis Richard Farnell, publisher Oxford University Press
1896
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Totemism
James George Frazer
1887
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Allgemeine Geschichte des Priesterthums
Julius Lippert
1883German
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Angelic wisdom concerning the divine love and the divine wisdom
Emanuel Swedenborg, James John Garth Wilkinson
1843
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Die religion der Römer
Emil Aust
1899German
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Volksglaube und religiöser Brauch der Magyaren
Heinrich von Wlislocki
1893German
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Le "magnétisme animal"
Fernand Bottey
1884French
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The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrement in Canada
Walter Walsh
1891
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The spirit-rapper
Orestes Augustus Brownson, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1854
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The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby
Charles Kingsley, Warwick Goble, Linley Sambourne, Jessie Willcox Smith
1863
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Hypnotismus und Suggestion: Eine klinisch-psychologische Studie
Moriz Benedikt
1894German
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Totem und Tabu
Sigmund Freud
1913German
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Les mystères du sommeil et du magnétisme; ou, Physiologie anecdotique du somnambulisme naturel et magnétique ..
Auguste Debay, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1854French
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The elementary forms of the religious life
Émile Durkheim, Joseph Ward Swain
1915
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Du magnétisme animal et de ses partisans, ou recueil de pièces importantes sur cet objet, précédé des observations récemment publiées
A. J. de Montègre, Antoine François Jenin de Montègre
1812French
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The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church
Lutheran Church. Nova Scotia
1864
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Polymetis: or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists
Joseph Spence
1747
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Report of the experiments on animal magnetism
Académie de médecine, Académie nationale de médecine, Provenance Bristol Royal Infirmary. Library, John Campbell Colquhoun, University of Bristol. Library
1833
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Totem-post from the Haida village of Masset ; Two British Columbian house-posts with totemic carvings ; Remarks on totemism
Edward Burnett Sir Tylor, Edward B. Tylor, Edward Edward Burnett Tylor
1898