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Wishlist

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This is a partial list of titles which would be appropriate scan candidates for sacred-texts.com. To qualify, a book must be:

  1. In the public domain in the US
  2. On the topic of Religion, Mythology, Folklore, the Esoteric/Occult, or containing a large amount of related content (such as a travel or anthropology book)

It includes titles gleaned from bibliographies and some that were suggested by readers of the site.

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This list does not include some works in progress such as the Sacred Books of the East, the Jataka, etc., nor does it include many books which I've already purchased and plan to scan personally at some point.

The items on this list vary widely in terms of how easy they would be to OCR and proof, how rare they are, and so on. Some may be unobtainable, while others may be obtained through interlibrary loan, and some are currently in print. Some are currently online in a non-open source format (such as PDF) and I wish to create an HTML version of them, which may mean scanning them from scratch.

Some of these have notes reading 'Check .c.r.', meaning 'check copyright' — the public domain status of that book has not yet been verified.

Wishlist Candidates

Last name First name Title Publisher Location Date Notes Category
Mythology of All Races (MOAR). 12 vols. Archaeological Institute of America, Marshall Jones Boston 1916-1932
Robin Goodfellow his Mad Prankes and Merry jests London 1628
Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition, vols. I-V, Argyllshire Series Nutt London 1889
---- The Folk-Lore Record, 5 vols. printed for the Folk-Lore Society by Nichols & Sons London 1878-82
Abbot G. F. Macedonian Folklore Cambridge 1903
Allen R. Star-Names and their Meanings New York 1899
Allies Jabez On the Ancient British, Roman and Saxon Antiquities and Folk-Lore of Worcestershire Marshall London 1840
Andrews E. Ulster Folklore 1913
Aston W.G. Shinto London 1921
Atkinson James Lailí ad Majnún, a poem...from the Persian of Nazámi, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, Publication no. 44 A.J. Valpy London 1836 Johnson Reprint, New York 1968
Aubrey John Hypomnemata Antiquaria Bodleian Ms. Aubrey III
Aubrey John Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, 5 vols. Curll London 1718-19
Aubrey John Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, edited by James Britten, first full edition Folk-Lore Society London 1881
Aubrey John Miscellanies, 5th edition Reeves & Turner London 1890
Balfour Mrs Folklore Society County Publications, vol. IV
Balfour Mrs 'Legends of the Cars' 1891 Folk-Lore, II,
Balfour M. C. and Northcote W. Thomas County Folk-Lore, vol. IV: Northumberland Folklore Society County Publications 1903
Banerjea Krishna Mohan Purana Sangraha, no. 1 Markandeya Purana Encyclopedia Press Calcutta 1851
Barton G.A. A Sketch of Semitic Origins New York 1902
Beaumont JOHN An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits D. Browne London 1705
Beck B.F. Honey and Health New York 1938 check c.r.
Billson C. J. County Folk-Lore, vol. I: Leicestershire and Rutland Folklore Society County Publications 1895
Black G. F. and Northcote W. Thomas County Folk-Lore, vol. III: Orkney and Shetland Islands Folklore Society County Publications 1901
Blagden C.O. Pagan Races of the Malay Penninsula London 1906
Blinkenberg C. The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore Cambridge 1911
Bottrell William Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Three Series (The title of the third volume in the series was Stories and Folk-Lore of West Cornwall.) Bottrell Penzance 1870-90
Bourclzier, Lord Berners Sir John The Boke of Duke Huon of Bordeuxe done into English Early English Text Society London 1883-7
Bovet Richard Pandaemonium, or The Devil's Cloyster J. Walthoe London 1684
Bowker James Goblin Tales of Lancashire Swan Sonnenschein London 1883
Brand J. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain London 1810
Bray Mrs A. E. The Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy. Their Natural History, Manners, Customs, Superstitions, etc., new edition, 2 vols. John Murray London 1879
Briggs C.A. and E.G. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Psalms, 2 vol. New York 1914-17
Brinton Daniel Garrison The Lenâpe and Their Legends (Walum Olum) Brinton Philadelphia 1885
Brinton Daniel Garrison Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History McCall and Co. Philadelphia 1894
Brinton Daniel Garrison Myths of the New World Philadelphia 1896
Budge E.A.W. The Book of Governors London 1893
Budge E.A.W. Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great London 1896
Budge E.A.W. Gods of the Egyptians London 1904
Budge E.A.W. Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection London 1911
Burkhardt J.L. Bedouins and Wahabys London 1831
Burne and jackson, g. F. C. S. Shropshire Folk-Lore Trübner & Co London 1883
Burney C.F. Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Book of Kings Cambridge 1903
Campbell J. G. The Fions London 1891
Campbell J. G. Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland J. MacLehose Glasgow 1900
Campbell J. G. Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland MacLehose Glasgow 1902
Carleton T. Crofton Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry 1830
Chambers Robert Popular Rhymes of Scotland W. & R. Chambers Edinburgh 1870
Chenery Thomas The Assemblies of Al-Hariri, Translated from the Arabic Williams and Norgate London 1896-98
Clayton A.C. The Rig-Veda and Vedic Religion London and Madras 1913
Codrington R.H. The Melanesians Oxford 1891
Comfort W. W. Geoffrey of Monmouth, Histories of the Kings of Britain Dent London 1914
Courtney Margaret Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore Beare & Son Penzance 1890
Craig R.T. The Shamash Religious Texts Chicago 1901
Crane Thomas Frederick Italian Popular Tales Houghton Mifflin and Company New York 1895
Crawley A.E. The Idea of the Soul London 1909
Cromek R. H. Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song Cadell & Davies London 1810
Curtin Jeremiah Hero-tales of Ireland London 1894
Davids C.A.F. Rhys Kindred Sayings London 1918
Dennys N.B. The Folklore of China London 1876
Doughty C.A. Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vols. Cambridge 1888
Edmonston Arthur A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands, 2 vols. Edinburgh 1809
Erman A. Handbook of Egyptian Reigion London 1907 tr. F. Griffith
Ewald H. History of Israel, 6 vols. London 1878-86
Ewald H. Commentary on the Prophets of the Old Testament, 5 vols. London 1875 ff. tr. J.F. Smith
Farnell L.R. Cults of the Greek States, 6 vols. Oxford 1896-1909
Fehlinger H. Sexual Life of Primitive People London 1921
Fox W.S. Greek and Roman Mythology Boston 1916
Frazer J.G. Pausanias' Description of Greece London 1898
Frazer J.G. Folk-Lore in the Old Testament, 3 vols. London 1919
Frazer J. G. Apollodorus, The Library Loeb Classics 1921
Fulong Alice Tales of Fairy Folks, Queens and Heroes Browne and Nolan Dublin 1907 pp. 212. [from BLIC]
Garnett Lucy Mary Jane The Women of Turkey and their folk-lore, 2 vols. D. Nutt London 1890-1
Garnett Lucy Mary Jane Mysticism and Magic in Turkey I. Pittman London 1912 AMS reprint New York, 1979
Gaster M. The Book of Prayer, according to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews London 1901
Gervase of Tilbury Otia Imperialia, III Hanover 1856
Gibbings W. W. Folk-Lore and Legends: Scotland London 1889
Glanvill Joseph Saducismus Triumphatus London 1681
Gollancz I., ed. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight Early English Text Society London 1920
Gomme Alice Children's Singing Games London 1894
Gomme Alice A Dictionary of British Folk-Lore, Part I: Traditional Games, 2 vols. Nutt London 1898
Gould S. Baring Lives of the Saints, 16 vols. Nimmo London 1897-8
Graham Patrick Sketches Descriptive of Picturesque Scenery on the Southern Confines of Perthshire Edinburgh 1806
Gray L.H. Baltic Mythology, (Mythology of all races. vol. 3) Boston 1918
Griffin Gerald Tales of the Jury-Room Dublin 1857 Celtic
Gurdon Lady E. C. County Folk-Lore, vol. I: Suffolk Folklore Society County Publications 1893
Gutch Mrs County Folk-Lore, vol. II: North Riding of Yorkshire, York and the Ainsty Folklore Society County Publications 1899
Gutch Mrs, and Mabel Peacock County Folk-Lore, vol. V: Lincolnshire Folklore Society County Publications 1908
Gutch Mrs County Folk-Lore, vol. VI: Concerning the East Riding of Yorkshire Folklore Society County Publications 1911
Haigh A.H. The Tragic Drama of the Greeks Oxford 1896
Halliwell-phillipps J. O. Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of the Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare Society London 1845
Hardy James The Denham Tracts, 2 vols. Folk-Lore Society London 1892
Harland J. A., and Wilkinson, T. T. Legends and Traditions of Lancashire Routledge London 1873
Harris J. Rendell The Cult of the Heavenly Twins Cambridge 1906
Harris J. Rendell Picus who is also Zeus Cambridge 1916
Harrison W. A Mona Miscellany Manx Society Douglas 1869
Harrison Jane Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion Cambridge 1921
Harrison Jane Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion Cambridge 1922
Harrison Jane Themis Cambridge 1922
Hartland E.S. The Legend of Perseus, 3 Vols. London 1894-96
Hartland E. S. County Folk-Lore, vol. I: Gloucestershire Folklore Society County Publications 1892
Haxthausen August Freiherr Von Transcaucasia, Sketches of the nations and races between the Black Sea and the Caspian Chapman and Hall London 1854
Hazlitt W. Carew Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare F. & W. Kerslake London 1875
Hazlitt W. Carew Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore, 2 vols. London 1905
Henderson William Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties Folk-Lore Society London 1879
Henderson George Survivals in Belief Among the Celts MacLehose Glasgow 1911
Heslop R. O. Northumberland Words: English Dialect Society, Nos. 66, 68, and 71 London 1892-4
Heywood Thomas The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels Adam Islip London 1635
Hochmann J. Jerusalem Temple Festivities London 1908
Hodson T.C. The Nága Tribes of Manipur London 1911
Hoernle August Friedrich Rudolf The Uvāsagadasāo, or, The Religious profession of an Uvāsanga expounded in ten lectures: being the Seventh Anga of the Jains, 2 vols. , Bibliotecha Indica no.105. Baptist Mission Press Calcutta 1888-1890
Holberg U. Finno-Ugric Mythology Boston 1927 check c.r. MOAR
Hollis A. C. The Nandi, their Language and Folklore Oxford 1909
Hone W. Ancient Mysteries Described, especially in English Miracle Plays London 1823
Hull Eleanor The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature Nutt London 1898
Hutchinson William A View of Northumberland, 2 Vols. Newcastle 1778
Im Thrum E.F. Among the Indians of Guiana London 1883
Ispirescu Petre The Foundling Prince and other tales Houghton Mifflin Company Boston 1917 Children's
Jacobson D. The Social Background of the Old Testament Cincinnati 1942 check c.r.
Jastrow M. Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-omens and their Cultural Significance Giessen 1914
Jeremias A. The Old Testament in the Light of the Ancient East, 2 vols. London 1911 tr. C.L. Beaumont; ed. C.H.W. Johns
Jones W. Henry The Folk-takes of the Magyars publ. for the Folk-lore society by E. Stock London 1889
Joyce P. W. Old Celtic Romances, 2nd edition Nutt London 1894
Keightly T. Tales and Popular Fictions London 1824
Keith A.B. Indian Mythology Boston 1917 MOAR?
King L.W. Babylonian Magic and Sorcery London 1896
King L.W. Chronicles concerning early Babylonian Kings London 1917
Kosegarten John Godfrey Lewis Poems of the Hazailis, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, Publication No. 66 London 1854
Krappe A.H. Balor with the Evil Eye New York 1927 check c.r.
Kúnos Ignácz Turkish Fairy Tales and folk tales Stokes New York 1896 tr. from the Hungarian by R. Nisbet Bain, Illustrated by Celia Levetus (Dover reprint)
Lane E. Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians Minerva Library London 1890
Langdon S. Tammuz and Ishtar Oxford 1914
Larminie W. West Irish Folk-tales and Romances London 1893
Layard A.H. Monuments of Nineveh London 1853
Leamy Edmund Irish Fairy Tales 1894
Leather E. M. The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire Sidgwick & Jackson London 1912
Leslie D. Among the Zulus and Amatongas Edinburgh 1875
Lichtenstein H. Travels in South Africa London 1812-5
Lorimer David Lockhart Robertson, and Emily Overend Persian Tales Macmillan and Co., Ltd. London 1919
Mac Ritchie David The Testimony of Tradition Kegan Paul London 1890
Macalister R.A.S. The Philistines London 1914
Macanally D.R. Irish Wonders 1888
Macdonell A.A. Vedic Mythology Strassburg 1897
Macdougall J., and Calder, G. Folk Tales and Fairy Lore Grant London 1910
Macmanus Seamus Donegal Fairy Stories 1902
Mccullough J. Celtic Mythology Boston 1918 MOAR
Mijatovič Elodie Lawton Serbian Folk-lore; popular tales Ibister & Co. London 1874 selected and translated by Madam Csedomille Mkjatovies. Edited with an Introduction by the Rev. W. Denton
Miller Hugh The Old Red Sandstone Edinburgh 1841
Mitra Rajendra Lal Gopath Brahmana of Arthava-veda., Biblioteca Indica no. 69, new ser. 215, 252 Asiatic Society of Bengal 1872 Reprint Delhi, Indiological Book House, 1971
Mitra Rajendra Lal Aitareya Āra.nyaka, Biblioteca Indica no. 82 Calcutta 1876
Morrison Sophia Manx Fairy Tales Nutt London 1911
Müller W. Max. Egyptian Mythology Boston 1918 MOAR?
Munch P.A. Norse Mythology New York 1926 Check c.r.
Murray Gilbert Euripides and His Age London n.d. Check c.r.
Murray Gilbert The Rise of the Greek Epic Oxford 1907
Myhrman D.W. Babylonian Hymns and Prayers Philadelphia 1911
Neumann C.F. The History of Vartan and of the Battle of the Armenians, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain an Ireland Publication No. 14 London 1830
Nicholson Reynold A. The Tarjumán al-ashwáq, a Collection of mystical odes, by ... Ibn Al-Arabi, Oriental Translation Fund n.s., vol. xx Royal Asiatic Society London 1911
O'curry Eugene Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History Hinch & Traynor London 1878
Oesterley W.O.E. The Sacred Dance New York 1923 Check c.r.
O'Grady Standish H. Silva Gadelica Williams & Norgate London 1892
O'Hanlon J.C. Irish Folklore 1870
O'Hanlon J.C. (pseud. Lageniensis) Irish Local Legends 1896
Peacock Mabel see Folklore Society County Publications, vol. V. Ralph of Coggeshall, Rolls Series 66 1857
Playfair A. The Garos London 1909
Preston Theodore Makamat, or Rhetorical anecdotes of Al Hariri of Basra J. Deighton Cambridge 1850
Randsome Arthur Old Peter's Russian Tales Nelson London 1916 Illustrated by Faith Jacques (Children's) Slavic
Redfield R. Tepoztlan Chicago 1930 Check c.r.
Roer E. and Cowell, eds. The Sanhitá of the Black Yajur Veda, 4 vols. Biblioteca Indica no. 219, 221, 224, 228 Baptist Mission Press Calcutta 1860-81 (English tr.?)
Ross J. History of Corea Paisley 1897
Sâmaśramî Âcharya Satyavrata The Çatapatha Brâhmana of the White Yajurveda Asiatic Society Calcutta 1903-11 (English tr.?)
Śástri Híshíkesá The Varáha Purana, 14 vols. Asiatic Society Calcutta 1887-93 (English tr.?)
Scot Reginald The Discoverie of Witchcraft Brome London 1584 'Discourse on Devils and Spirits' (anon.) inserted in 1665 edition.
Scott J.G. Indo-Chinese Mythology Boston 1918 MOAR
Scott Sir Walter Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, revised and edited by T. F. Henderson, 4 vols. Oliver & Boyd Edinburgh 1932 reprint, list original
Seligman C.G. The Melanesians of British New Guinea Cambridge 1910
Shooter J. The Kaffirs of Natal and the Zulu Country London 1857
Simpkins John Ewart County Folk-Lore, vol. VII: Fife, with Some Notes on Clackmannan and Kinross-Shires Folklore Society County Publications 1912
Simpson E. B. Folk Lore in Lowland Scotland Dent London 1908
Smith G. and Sayce, A.H. The Chaldean Genesis London 1880
Smythe-Palmer A. Babylonian Influence in the Bible and Popular Beliefs: Hades and Satan London 1897
Smythe-Palmer A. Jacob at Bethel London 1899
Spence John Shetland Folklore Johnson & Greig Lerwick 1899
Spence Lewis An Introduction to Mythology New York 1921
Spencer W.B. and Gillen, F.J. The Native Tribes of Central Australia London 1899
Steel Flora Annie Webster, and Temple, Richard Carnac Wide-awake stories, (...Punjab and Kashmir) Trübner London 1884 Republished as 'Tales of the Punjab.'
Sternberg W. The Dialect and Folk-Lore of Northamptonshire London 1851
Stewart W. Grant Popular Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland Archibald Constable London 1823 Ward Lock reprint, London, 1970
Sykes A.A. Nature, Design and Origin of Sacrifices London? 1748
Thistleton-dyer T.F. British Popular Customs London 1876
Thompson J. Through Masai Land London 1887
Thompson Reginald Campbell The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia. 2 Vols. Luzac's Semitic text and translation series vol. 14 and 15 London 1903-4 [AMS Reprint]
Thompson Reginald Campbell Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon London 1900
Thompson Reginald Campbell Semitic Magic Luzac's Semitic text and translation series vol. 3 London 1908
Thoms W. J. Early English Prose Romances Routledge (Routledge's Library of Early Novelists) 1907
Thorpe B. (ed.) Ancient Laws and Institutes of England London 1840
Thurston E. Omens and Superstitions of South India London 1912
Toland J. History of the Druids London 1726
Topsell Edward The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes William Taggard London 1607
Turner G. Samoa a Hundred Years ago and long before London 1884
Tylor E.B. Primitive Culture, 3rd ed. London 1891
Urlin Ethel Festivals, Holidays and Saint's Days London 1915
Waldron George A Description of the Isle of Man London 1731
Wardrop Marjory Scott Life of St. Nino Clarendon Press Oxford 1900
Weekes J.H. Among the Primitive Bakongo London 1914
Weston Jessie L. The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Nutt London 1901
William of Malmesbury Chronicle of the Kings of England Bohn Library London 1841
Wood-Martin W. G. Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, 2 vols. Longmans London 1902
Wratislaw Albert Henry Lyra Czecho-slovanská, Bohemian Poems, Ancient and Modern J. W. Parker London 1849 reprint New York, Kraus 1971
Wratislaw Albert Henry The Native Literature of Bohemia in the fourteenth century G. Bell and Sons London 1878
Wright Thomas Essays on Subjects Connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions and History of England in the Middle Ages, 2 vols. J. R. Smith London 1846
Wright Thomas Giraldus Cambrensis, The Historical Works Bohn Library London 1863
Wright E. M. Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore Oxford University Press 1913