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The following is a list of sources included in either the bibliographies or article texts of articles in the named books, listed by the article in which they appear.
Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience[edit]
Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience, by William F. Williams, Facts on File, 2000, ISBN 081603351X
Albert Abrams[edit]
- Human Energy, by Albert Abrams;
- New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment, by Albert Abrams;
Atlantis[edit]
- The Secred Doctrine, by Madame Blavatsky;
- Atlantis, by Ignatius Donnelly;
- Critias, by Plato;
- Timaeus, by Plato;
Francis Bacon[edit]
- The Achievement of Learning, by Francis Bacon;
- Cogitata et Visa, by Francis Bacon;
- De Augmentis Scientiarum, by Francis Bacon;
- De Sapienta Veterum, by Francis Bacon;
- Essays, by Francis Bacon;
- The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon;
- Novum Organum, by Francis Bacon;
Sabine Baring-Gould[edit]
- The Book of Were-wolves, by Sabine Baring-Gould;
- Early Reminiscences, by Sabine Baring-Gould;
- Further Reminiscences, by Sabine Baring-Gould;
- Lives of the Saints, by Sabine Baring-Gould;
Henri-Louis Bergson[edit]
- Creative Evolution, by Henri Bergson;
- An Introduction to Metaphysics, by Henri Bergson;
- Matter and Memory, by Henri Bergson;
Johann Beringer[edit]
- Lithographia Wirceburgensis, by Johann Beringer;
Raymond Bernard[edit]
- The Invisible Empire, by Raymond Bernard;
- The Secret Houses of the Rose and Croi, by Raymond Bernard;
- A Secret Meeting in Rome, by Raymond Bernard;
- Strange Encounters, by Raymond Bernard;
Annie Besant[edit]
- Occult Chemistry, by Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater;
Madame Blavatsky[edit]
- Isis Unveiled, by Madame Blavatsky;
- The Secret Doctrine, by Madame Blavatsky;
Frederick Bligh Bond[edit]
- The Gate of Remembrance, by Frederick Bligh Bond;
Saint Brendan[edit]
- Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot;
Brunonianism[edit]
- De Occulta Philosophia, by Agrippa;
Celery[edit]
- 1906 Colliers series on nostrums by Samuel Hopkins Adams;
- Great Things, What They Are, Where They Are (1883);
Census of Hallucinations[edit]
- Phantasms of the Living, by Edmond Gurney, et. al.;
- Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 10 (1894);
Houston Stewart Chamberlain[edit]
- Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, by Houston Stewart Chamberlain;
Christian Science[edit]
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy;
- Science of Man, by Mary Baker Eddy;
George Combe[edit]
- The Constitution of Man in Relation to External Objects, by George Combe;
- The Life of George Combe, by Charles Gibbon;
- Notes of the United States of America, 1838-9-40, by George Combe;
Cosmologies, variant[edit]
- De Revolutionibus Orbium Celestium, by Galileo;
Cottingley fairies[edit]
- The Coming of the Fairies, by Arthur Conan Doyle;
- Strand magazine articles by Arthur Conan Doyle, December 1920 and March 1921;
Covens[edit]
- The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, by Margaret Murray;
Creation Science[edit]
- Annals of the Old Testament, by James Ussher;
Aleister Crowley[edit]
- The Book of the Law, by Aleister Crowley;
Cryptozoology[edit]
- The Great Sea-Serpent, by Antoon Cornelius Oudemans;
Cuforhedake brane-fude[edit]
- Collier's article by Samuel Hopkins Adams;
Cycles theories[edit]
- The Rhythm of Life, by Wilhelm Fleiss;
Charles Robert Darwin[edit]
- The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin;
- On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin;
Andrew Jackson Davis[edit]
- Appetites and Passions, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- The Approaching Crisis, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- Arabula, the Divine Guest, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- The Great Harmonia, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- The Magic Staff, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- The Harbinger of Health, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- Morning Lectures, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- The Penetralia, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- The Philosophy of Spiritual Intercourse, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- The Present Age of Inner Life, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- The Principles of Nature, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- Stellar Key to the Summer Land, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- Tales of a Physician, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
- The World's True Redeemer, by Andrew Jackson Davis;
Death rays[edit]
- The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells;
Deluge man[edit]
- On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin;
Dermo-optical perception[edit]
- Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell;
Diluvialism[edit]
- The Sacred Theory of the Earth, by Thomas Burnet;
- The New Geology, by George McCready Price;
- The Waters Above the Firmament, by Isaac Newton Vail;
Dualisms[edit]
- The Mind and Its Place in Nature, by C. D. Broad;
Earth-centered astronomy[edit]
- On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, by Nicolas Copernicus;
Arnold Erhet[edit]
- Mucusless-diet healing system, by Arnold Erhet;
Henry Havelock Ellis[edit]
- Studies in the Psychology of Sex, by Henry Havelock Ellis;
- A Study of British Genius, by Henry Havelock Ellis;
- The Tasks of Social Hygiene, by Henry Havelock Ellis;
Eugenics[edit]
- Hereditary Descent, by Francis Galton;
Evolution, progressive[edit]
- The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin;
- On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin;
- The Mutation Theory, by Hugo de Vries;
- Philosophie Zoologique, by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck;
- Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation;
Eyeless sight[edit]
- Eyeless Sight, by Jules Romains;
Fairies[edit]
- The Secret Commonwealth, by Robert Kirk;
Horace Fletcher[edit]
- Fletcherism, What It Is, by Horace Fletcher;
Theodore Flournoy[edit]
- Espirits et Mediums, by Theodore Flournoy;
- From India to the Planet Mars, by Theodore Flournoy;
- La Philosophie de William James, by Theodore Flournoy;
- Metapsychique et Psychologie, by Theodore Flournoy;
- Nouvelles observations sur un cas de somnambulisme avec glossolalie, by Theodore Flournoy;
Charles Hoy Fort[edit]
- The Book of the Damned, by Charles Fort;
- New Lands, by Charles Fort;
- The Outcast Manufactures, by Charles Fort;
Sigmund Freud[edit]
- The Ego and the Id, by Sigmund Freud;
- A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, by Sigmund Freud;
- The Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud;
- Totem and Taboo, by Sigmund Freud;
Franz Joseph Gall[edit]
- Anatomie et physiologie du systeme nerveux en general et du ceveau en particulier, by Franz Joseph Gall;
Francis Galton[edit]
- Hereditary Genius, by Francis Galton;
Comte Joseph de Gobineau[edit]
- Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, by Comte Joseph de Gobineau;
Sylvester Graham[edit]
- The Aesculapian Tablets of the Nineteenth Century, by Sylvester Graham;
- A Lecture on Epidemic Diseases General and Particularly the Spasmadic Cholera, by Sylvester Graham;
- Lectures on the Science of Human Life, by Sylvester Graham;
- A Treatise on Bread and Bread-Making, by Sylvester Graham;
- The Young Man's Guide to Chastity, by Sylvester Graham;
Grape cure[edit]
- Encyclopedia of Physical Culture by Bernarr Macfadden;
Graphology[edit]
- Treatise on a Method to Recognize the Nature and Quality of a Writer from His Letters, by Camillo Baldi;
- The Practical System of Graphology, by Jean Hippolyte Michon;
Great chain of being[edit]
- On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin;
Nehemiah Grew/Marcello Malphigi[edit]
- The Anatomy of Plants, by Nehemiah Grew;
- Cosmologia Sacra, by Nehemiah Grew;
- Anatome Plantorum, by Marcello Malphigi;
William Harvey[edit]
- De Moto Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus, by William Harvey;
Heliocentrism[edit]
- On the Revolutions of Celestial Bodies, by Nicholas Copernicus;
- Almagest, by Ptolemy;
Bernard Heuvelemans[edit]
- The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle;
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne;
Hollow Earth doctrine[edit]
- Journey to the Earth's Interior, by Marshall B. Gardner;
- MS. Found in a Bottle, by Edgar Allan Poe;
- The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaal, by Edgar Allan Poe;
- The Cellular Cosmology, by Cyrus Reed Teed;
- The Illumination of Koresh, by Cyrus Reed Teed;
- A Voyage to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne;
Homeopathy[edit]
- The Organon of Homeopathic Medicine, by Samuel Christian Hahnemann;
- Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions, by Oliver Wendell Holmes;
Hans Horbiger[edit]
- Glazial-Kosmogonie, by Hans Horbiger;
Harry Houdini[edit]
- A Magician among the Spirits, by Harry Houdini;
Thomas Jay Hudson[edit]
- Divine Pedigree of Man, by Thomas Jay Hudson;
- Evolution of the Soul and Other Essays, by Thomas Jay Hudson;
- Law of Mental Medicine, by Thomas Jay Hudson;
- The Law of Psychic Phenomena, by Thomas Jay Hudson;
- Scientific Demonstration of a Future Life, by Thomas Jay Hudson;
I Ching[edit]
- I Ching;
Incubus and succubus[edit]
- Summa Theologica, by Thomas Aquinas;
- City of God, by Augustine;
Intelligence tests[edit]
- Crania Americana, by Samuel George Morton;
Invisibility[edit]
- The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells;
Iridology[edit]
- Iridiagnosis and Other Diagnostic Methods, by Henry Lindlahr;
William James[edit]
- The Principles of Psychology, by William James;
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James;
Jenny Haniver[edit]
- Traite generale des pesches, by Henri-Louis Duhamel;
- Historia Animalium, by Conrad Gesner;
Carl Gustav Jung[edit]
- Psychology of the Unconscious, by Carl Gustav Jung;
Kabbalah[edit]
- Zohar;
John Harvey Kellogg[edit]
- The Natural Diet of Man, by John Harvey Kellogg;
- Modern Medicine and Bacteriological World;
Walter John Kilner[edit]
- The Human Atmosphere, by Walter John Kilner;
Kinderhook plates[edit]
- The Book of Mormon;
King Solomon's mines[edit]
- King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard;
Knossos[edit]
- The Palace of Minos, by Arthur Evans;
Kraken[edit]
- Natural History of Norway, by Erik Pontoppidian;
Jean Baptiste Lamarck[edit]
- Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin;
- The Natural History of Invertebrates, by Jean Baptiste Lamarck;
- Zoological Philosophy, by Jean Baptiste Lamarck;
Lamarckianism[edit]
- Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin;
- Zoological Philosophy, by Jean Baptiste Lamarck;
Alfred A. Lawson[edit]
- Born Again, by Alfred A. Lawson;
- Manlife, by Alfred A. Lawson;
Ley lines[edit]
- British Trackways, by Alfred Watkins;
- The Old Straight Track, by Alfred Watkins;
Lindorms[edit]
- The Natural History of Norway, by Erik Pontoppidan;
Lycanthropy[edit]
- The City of God, by Augustine;
- Satyricon;
Charles Lyell[edit]
- Principles of Geology, by Charles Lyell;
Magic[edit]
- The Golden Bough, by James G. Frazer;
Thomas Robert Malthus[edit]
- Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvment of Society, by Thomas Robert Malthus;
Cotton Mather[edit]
- More Wonders of the Invisible World, by Robert Calaf;
- An Account... of Inoculating the Small-Pox, by Cotton Mather;
- Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions, by Cotton Mather;
- Sentiments on the Small Pox Innoculated, by Cotton Mather;
- Wonders of the Invisible World, by Cotton Mather;
Medium[edit]
- Raymond, by Oliver J. Lodge;
Merlin[edit]
- Historia Regum Britanniae, by Geoffrey of Monmouth;
Microbe killer[edit]
- R. G. Eccles in Druggist's Circular (1889);
James Burnett Monboddo[edit]
- Of the Origin and Progress of Language, by James Burnett Monboddo;
Moon, life on the[edit]
- Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto;
- Voyages to the Moon and the Sun, by Cyrano de Bergerac;
- A True History, by Lucian;
Frederic William Henry Myers[edit]
- Human Personality and Its Survival after Bodily Death, by F. W. H. Myers;
Mystery Hill[edit]
- Antiquitatis Americanae, by Charles C. Rafn;
Natural theology[edit]
- Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin;
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume;
Nebular hypothesis[edit]
- Exposition de Systeme du Monde, by Pierre Simon Laplace;
Neptunism[edit]
- Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton;
Isaac Newton[edit]
- Principia, by Isaac Newton;
Nostradamus[edit]
- Prophecies of Nostradamus;
Nostrums[edit]
- Collier's 1905 series by Samuel Hopkins Adams;
Occultism[edit]
- I Ching;
Ontogency and Phylogeny[edit]
- Uber Arbeitsheitlung in Natur und Menschenleben, by Ernst Haeckel;
Antoon Cornelis Oudemans[edit]
- The Great Sea Serpent, by Antoon Cornelis Oudemans;
William Paley[edit]
- Natural Theology, by William Paley;
- Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, by William Paley;
- A View of the Evidences of Christendom, by William Paley;
Palingensy[edit]
- The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, by John Webster;
Robert Edwin Peary[edit]
- The North Pole, by Robert Edwin Peary;
- Northward Over the 'Great Ice,' by Robert Edwin Peary;
- Secrets of Polar Travel, by Robert Edwin Peary;
Peruna[edit]
- Samuel Hopkins Adams' Collier's series;
Phrenology[edit]
- Anatomie et Physiologie du systeme nerveux en general et du cerveau en particular, by Franz Gall et al.;
Pliny the elder[edit]
- Historia naturalis, by Pliny the Elder;
Polar shift[edit]
- Electricity and Magnetism, by S. G. Starling;
George McCready Price[edit]
- The New Geology, by George McCready Price;
George Psamanazar[edit]
- A Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, by Gbeorge Psamanazar;
Psychic photography[edit]
- Princess Mary's Gift Book;
Pyramid inch[edit]
- Life and Work at the Great Pyramid, by Charles Piazzi Smyth;
- On the Antiquity of Intellectual Man, by Charles Piazzi Smyth;
- Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, by Charles Piazzi Smyth;
Pyramidology[edit]
- The Great Pyramid – Its Divine Message, by David Davidson;
Racial theories[edit]
- Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler;
- Account of the Racial Gradation in Man, by Charles White;
Religious Science[edit]
- The Law of Psychic Phenomena, by Thomas Jay Hudson;
- The Edinburgh Lectures, by Thomas Troward;
Root races[edit]
- The Secret Doctrine, by Madame Blavatsky;
- Atlantis and Lemuria, by Rudolph Steiner;
- The Story of Atlantis (1914);
Alfred Rosenberg[edit]
- The Protocols of Zion (1923);
Science fiction and science[edit]
- A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs;
- Five Weeks in a Balloon, by Jules Verne;
- From the Earth to the Moon, by Jules Verne;
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne;
- The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne;
- The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells;
- The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells;
- The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells;
- The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells;
Sight without glasses[edit]
- Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment without Glasses, by William Horatio Bates;
Samuel G. Soal[edit]
- Raymond, by Oliver Lodge;
Social Darwinism[edit]
- On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin;
Soviet science[edit]
- The Dialectics of Nature, by Friedrich Engels;
Lewis Spence[edit]
- An Encyclopedia of Occultism, by Lewis Spence;
- The Problem of Atlantis, by Lewis Spence;
Johann Christophe Gaspar Spurzheim[edit]
- Anatomie et Physiologie du systeme nerveux en general et du cerveau en particular, by Franz Gall, et. al.;
Rudolf Steiner[edit]
- The Philosophy of Freedom, by Rudolf Steiner;
William Stukeley[edit]
- Stonehenge, a Temple Restored to the British Druids, by William Stukeley;
Sun stood still, day the[edit]
- Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, by Galileo Galilei;
John Cleves Symmes[edit]
- Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres, by James McBride;
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, by Edgar Allan Poe;
- The Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres, by Americus Symmes;
- Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery (1820);
Synthesia[edit]
- Theory of Color, by J. W. von Goethe;
Talking apes[edit]
- Apes and Monkeys, by Richard L. Garner;
- Gorillas and Chimpanzees, by Richard L. Garner;
- The Speech of Monkeys, by Richard L. Garner;
Tar water[edit]
- Siris, a Chain of philosophical reflections and Enquiries on the Virtue of Tar Water, by George Berkeley;
Tatzelwurm[edit]
- Alpenrosen (1841);
- Das Thierleben der Alpenwelt, by Friedrich von Tschudi;
Cyrus Reed Teed[edit]
- The Cellular Cosmology, by Cyrus Reed Teed;
- The Illumination of Koresh, by Cyrus Reed Teed;
Theosophy[edit]
- Isis Unveiled, by Madame Blavatsky;
- The Secret Doctrine, by Madame Blavatsky;
Time travel[edit]
- A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens;
- Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving;
- A Tale of the Ragged Mountain, by Edgar Allan Poe;
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain;
Mary Toft[edit]
- Sketches of Imposture, Deception and Credulity, by Richard Alfred Davenport;
- A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits, by R. Nathaniel St. Andre;
Troy[edit]
- Iliad, by Homer;
- Ilios, by Heinrich Schliemann;
Tychonic system[edit]
- De Astronomicis Hypothesibus, by Nicholas Reimer;
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation[edit]
- Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, by Robert Chambers;
- Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin;
Virgil[edit]
- Divine Comedy, by Dante;
- Iliad, by Homer;
- Odyssey, by Homer;
- Aeneid, by Virgil;
Alfred Russel Wallace[edit]
- Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection, by Alfred Russel Wallace;
- Island Life, by Alfred Russel Wallace;
- Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace;
- On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species, by Alfred Russel Wallace;
The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience[edit]
The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience, ed. by Michael Shermer, ABC-Clio, 2002, ISBN 157607-653-9.
Alternative archaeology[edit]
- Atlantis, by Ignatius Donnelly;
Clever Hans[edit]
- Clever Hans, by O. Pfungst;
Fairies, elves, pixies, and gnomes[edit]
- The Coming of the Fairies, by Arthur Conan Doyle;
- “Fairies Photographed: An Epoch-Making Event,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Strand magazine, 1920;
- The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, by W. Y. Evans Wentz;
Feng shui[edit]
- The Golden Bough by James G. Frazer;
Piltdown Man[edit]
- The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin;
Polygraph and lie detection[edit]
- “Systolic Blood Pressure Symptoms of Deception,” by William Moulton Marston, Journal of Experimental Psychology 2 (1917);
Prayer and healing[edit]
- Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayer, by F. Galton, Fortnightly Review 12 (1872);
Reincarnation[edit]
- Principles of Psychology, by William James;
Societies for Psychical Research[edit]
- Phantasms of the Living, by Edmond Gurney et al.;