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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Strange stories of the animal world
John Timbs
1865
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Bob, son of Battle
Alfred Ollivant
1898
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Camino de perfección [por] Santa Teresa de Jesús
Teresa of Avila, E. Allison Peers
1632
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Classical Myths of Greece & Rome (1897)
Brother Elias
1897
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Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries A Dissertation
Thomas Taylor
1891
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Johnny Nut and the golden goose
Charles Deulin, Amédée Lynen, Andrew Lang
1887
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Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There
Joel Chandler Harris, Oliver Herford
1894
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Mr. Rabbit at home
Joel Chandler Harris, Oliver Herford
1894
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Neoplatonic and neopythagorean translations
1475Latin

Ozark magic and folklore
Vance Randolph
1947
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Per le reali esequie celebrate alla Sacra Cesarea Reale Appostolica Maestà di Maria Teresa Imperatrice Regina
Anton Siro Vanini
1780Italian
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The enchanted burro
Charles Fletcher Lummis
1897

The occult, witchcraft & magic
Christopher Dell
2016
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The religious life of the Zuni child
Matilda Coxe Stevenson
1887
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The wonderful stories of Fuz-Buz the fly and Mother Grabem the spider
S. Weir Mitchell
1867
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Æsop's fables in words of one syllable
Lucy Aikin, 621? BCE-565? BCE Aesop
1878
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A Christian lreath for the pagan deities
Frances Arabella Rowden
1820
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Agamemnon of Aeschylus and the Bacchanals of Euripides
Euripides Henry Hart Milman
1865
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Archaeologia Aeliana: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities
Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
1843
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Asgard and the Gods
M. W. Macdowall Wilhelm Wägner
1886
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Asiatic Studies
Alfred Comyn Lyall
1899
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Balder the Beautiful: A Song of Divine Death
Robert Williams Buchanan
1877
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Carl Philipp Moritz Anthousa, oder, Roms Alterhthümer
Karl Philipp Moritz, Friedrich Eberhard Rambach
1801German
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Kitāb al-Iṣlāḥ
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān, -934?, Mīnūchihr, Ḥasan, Muḥaqqiq, Mahdī, Mujtabavī, Jalāl al-Dīn, Shin Nomoto
1383Arabic