SOURCES
SOURCES
Every source behind the map, the stories and the registry — the ones we used, the ones we checked and set aside, and the leads not yet read, each with the reason. Where a work is under copyright you see only the passage we relied on and a link to the rest; public-domain books open in full in the Reading Room.
122 OF 1077 SOURCES
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USEDAncient legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland
Lady Wilde · 1887 · Project Gutenberg #61436
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READApparitions and Thought-Transference
Podmore · 1894 · Project Gutenberg #56489
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the SPR's own sceptic on apparitions — the nearest available to Phantasms of the Living
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LEAD — NOT YET READArqueología de la Cueva de los Tayos
Pedro Porras · Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador · 1978
The archaeology of the cave after the 1976 expedition. Cited by the Wikipedia article; not read.
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USEDBathurst, Roman Antiquities at Lydney Park (1879)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READBearslayer (Lāčplēsis)
Pumpurs · 1888; Eng. tr. · Project Gutenberg #17445
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Latvia's national epic. CHECK the translation's licence at ingest — it is a modern translation Gutenberg hosts by permission
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READBlackfoot Lodge Tales
Grinnell · 1892 · Project Gutenberg #11547
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
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USEDBrittle (1980)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDBrittle, The Devil in Connecticut (1983)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDChaloner W. Chute, A History of the Vyne (1888)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDcontemporary reports in the Irish daily and Tipperary press, March–July 1895. Scholarly treatment: Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary (1999), which works from the depositions and press record.
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · CHECKED 2026-10-01
LEAD — NOT YET READContes et Légendes de Belgique
Collectif d'auteurs · 2010
Cited by the French article on Berthe de La Roche (ISBN 2-930359-08-0). Not read.
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READCurious Myths of the Middle Ages
Baring-Gould · 1866 · Project Gutenberg #36127
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
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USEDDalrymple and Anand (2017)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDDalrymple and Anand (2017), citing Muhammad Kazim Marvi's account of the Peacock Throne
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDDaniel Codd, Mysterious Somerset and Bristol (2011) (seen February 2010)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDDaniel Lindsey Thomas & Lucy Blayney Thomas, Kentucky Superstitions (Princeton University Press, 1920)
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDDaniel Lindsey Thomas & Lucy Blayney Thomas, Kentucky Superstitions (Princeton University Press, 1920), 'Death' section
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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LEAD — NOT YET READDe heks van Limbricht
Susan Smit · 2021
Historical novel on Entgen Luijten, cited by the Dutch article. A novel; for the record use the court archive. Not read.
BOOK · CHECKED 2026-10-01
LEAD — NOT YET READDe Nuce Maga Beneventana
Pietro Piperno · 1639
The 17th-century source for the walnut-tree legend and its map of possible sites. Public domain; look for a scan. Not read.
BOOK · CHECKED 2026-09-30
LEAD — NOT YET READDead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
Donnie Eichar · 2013
The infrasound (Kármán vortex) hypothesis; cited by Wikipedia. Not read.
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READDemonologia; or, Natural Knowledge Revealed
Forsyth · 1827 · Project Gutenberg #72476
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). a Georgian exposé of superstition, A to Z
BOOK · CHECKED 2026-10-01
LEAD — NOT YET READDeutsches Sagenbuch
Ludwig Bechstein · 1852
Bechstein's own text of the Wijnendale legend; public domain. Read it and check the Reading Room.
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LEAD — NOT YET READEl Cementerio Central: Bogotá, la vida urbana y la muerte
Oscar Iván Calvo Isaza · Tercer Milenio Ediciones · 1998 · ISBN 9789586017473
If the Central Cemetery's traditions (Leo Kopp and others) are ever to be mapped, this is where to look. Not read.
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USEDEliot Wigginton (ed.), The Foxfire Book (Doubleday, 1972), Rabun Gap GA — chapters on faith healing, planting by the signs, home remedies
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN
USEDFairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
W. B. Yeats (ed.) · 1888 · Project Gutenberg #33887
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USEDFairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
Thomas Crofton Croker · 1825 · Project Gutenberg #39752
STORY · DANIEL O'ROURKESTORY · FLORY CANTILLON'S FUNERALSTORY · HANLON'S MILLSTORY · THE BREWERY OF EGG-SHELLSSTORY · THE BUNWORTH BANSHEESTORY · THE DEATH COACHSTORY · THE LADY OF GOLLERUSSTORY · THE LEGEND OF KNOCKFIERNASTORY · THE LEGEND OF KNOCKGRAFTONSTORY · THE LEGEND OF KNOCKSHEOGOWNASTORY · THE MACCARTHY BANSHEESTORY · THE PRIEST'S SUPPERBOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READFinnish Legends for English Children
Eivind · 1893 · Project Gutenberg #24948
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the Kalevala legends retold, chapter by chapter
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LEAD — NOT YET READFrauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology (6th ed.)
Kenneth L. Feder · Oxford University Press · 2008
Standard account of the ancient-astronaut claims, Nazca included. Not read.
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USEDGeorge Rogers Mansfield, 'Origin of the Brown Mountain Light in North Carolina', U.S. Geological Survey, 1922 (reprinted as USGS Circular 646, 1971)
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDGerald Brittle, The Demonologist (1980)
worldcat.org
Cited on the map entry (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDGerald Brittle, The Demonologist (1980), ch. 'Annabelle'
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READGhostly Phenomena
O'Donnell · 1910 · Project Gutenberg #40823
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). O'Donnell's typology of hauntings
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READGlimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series
Hearn · 1894 · Project Gutenberg #8130
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). joins the two Hearns already shelved
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LEAD — NOT YET READGlimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series
Hearn · 1894 · Project Gutenberg #8133
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). ditto
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USEDGonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Historia general y natural de las Indias (1535–1557) — the Masaya chapters
worldcat.org
Cited on the map entry (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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LEAD — NOT YET READGrandes culturas indígenas de América
Javier Ocampo López · Plaza & Janes Editores Colombia · 2007 · ISBN 9789581403684
The bibliography behind the Muisca legends of the falls. Not read.
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USEDGuy B. Johnson, John Henry: Tracking Down a Negro Legend (University of North Carolina Press, 1929)
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDHaxton, The Dibbuk Box (2011)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDHeron-Allen's letter (acquisition 1890)
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USEDInput, 2021 (Haxton passed the box to Bagans in 2016)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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LEAD — NOT YET READIsis Unveiled
Blavatsky · 1877 · Project Gutenberg #68705
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
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LEAD — NOT YET READItalian Popular Tales
Crane · 1885 · Project Gutenberg #23634
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the Italian folk-tale collection in English
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USEDJennifer A. Bauer, Roan Mountain: History of an Appalachian Treasure (History Press, 2011), citing Colton and hotel-era accounts
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDJoanna Galdone, The Tailypo: A Ghost Story (Clarion, 1977)
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDJohn A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies (Saturday Review Press, 1975)
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDJohn Collinson, History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset (1791), vol. 2, pp. 339–340 ('a head, chop-fallen enough, is still shewn')
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDJosé León Sánchez, La isla de los hombres solos (1963)
worldcat.org
Cited on the map entry (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READKalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland
Crawford (tr.) · 1888 · Project Gutenberg #5186
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Finland's national epic; the folk-belief behind Tuonela, the land of the dead
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USEDKentucky Historical Society, 'New Details About the Cursed Chest' (donated 1976)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDKienzle (2017)
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USEDKurin (2006)
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BOOK · CHECKED 2026-10-04
LEAD — NOT YET READLa Vièrge de l'Egypte. L'incroyable apparition de Marie à des millions d'Egyptiens
François Brune · 2004
Cited as further reading for Assiut. Not read.
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-09-24
USEDLegends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology)
W. D. Westervelt · Geo. H. Ellis Co., Boston · 1915 · Project Gutenberg #39195
Read in full except chapters XV and XVII. The source of all 19 Hawaiʻi stories. Chapter X ('The Old Man of the Mountain') is NOT used: Westervelt says it is not a Hawaiian legend but his own story.
MAP · KĪLAUEA — HOME OF PELEMAP · NUʻUANU PALI LOOKOUTMAP · PUʻU KEKAʻA (BLACK ROCK)STORY · ʻAUMĀKUA — THE ANCESTOR-GUARDIANSSTORY · HIKU AND KEWALU — THE BRIDE FROM THE UNDERWORLDSTORY · HOW MILU BECAME KING OF THE GHOSTSSTORY · KAHALAOPUNA AND THE TESTING OF GHOSTSSTORY · KĀLAIPĀHOA, THE POISON-GODSTORY · KĀNEKUAʻANA AND THE OYSTERS OF PUʻULOASTORY · KAUHUHU, THE SHARK GOD OF MOLOKAʻISTORY · LAKA AND THE LITTLE PEOPLESTORY · MALUAE AND THE BREADFRUIT TREE OF LEIWALOSTORY · MOʻOINANEA AND THE STONE WOMEN OF NUʻUANUSTORY · NANAUE, THE SHARK-MAN OF WAIPIʻOSTORY · PULE ʻANĀʻANĀ — PRAYING TO DEATHSTORY · THE GHOST OF WAHAʻULA HEIAUSTORY · THE LAPU — GHOST DRUMS AT THE OLD HEIAUSTORY · THE LEAPING PLACES OF THE SPIRITSSTORY · THE MOʻO OF THE RIVERS AND POOLSSTORY · THE NIGHT MARCHERSSTORY · THE PRAYER TO THE GODS OF THE NIGHT PATHSSTORY · KA-ILIO-HAE AND THE KING OF THE GHOSTSBOOK · CHECKED 2026-10-04
LEAD — NOT YET READLegends of the House of the Cretan Woman
R. G. Gayer-Anderson · American University in Cairo Press · 2001
Gayer-Anderson's own collection of the house's legends. Not read.
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USEDLeonard W. Roberts, South from Hell-fer-Sartin: Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales (University of Kentucky Press, 1955)
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READLetters of Pliny
Pliny the Younger · c. 100 AD · Project Gutenberg #2811
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Letter 7.27: Athenodorus and the haunted house in Athens — the oldest detailed haunted-house account
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LEAD — NOT YET READLife, Land and Water in Ancient Peru
Paul Kosok · Long Island University Press · 1965
Kosok's own account of the lines. Not read.
BOOK · CHECKED 2026-09-30
LEAD — NOT YET READLos Brujos de Chiloé: Documentos de un Proceso Judicial
Matías Galleguillos · Ed. Tacitas · 2018
The 1880 court documents; cited by Spanish Wikipedia. Not read.
BOOK · CHECKED 2026-09-29
LEAD — NOT YET READLost on the Titanic: The Story of the Great Omar
Encyclopedia Titanica (store listing)
Book-length account; not read.
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USEDLouis W. Chappell, John Henry: A Folk-Lore Study (1933)
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDMannenji temple's account, as reported by Pink Tentacle (2010)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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LEAD — NOT YET READMarkawasi: Peru's Inexplicable Stone Forest
Kathy Doore · 2008
The Marcahuasi claims, if the site is ever reconsidered. Not read.
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USEDMental Floss (2015)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READMighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Fillmore · 1922 · Project Gutenberg #38112
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Finnish folk tales
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USEDMike Dash, Smithsonian Magazine (2013) ('owned not by the Austro-Hungarian state but by Count Franz von Harrach')
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDMike Dash, Smithsonian Magazine (2013) (on permanent display)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READModern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: A Study in Survivals
Lawson · 1910 · Project Gutenberg #66116
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the vrykolakas (Greek revenant), Nereids, the evil eye — the standard study
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LEAD — NOT YET READMysteries of the Tayos Caves: The Lost Civilizations Where the Andes Meet the Amazon
Alex Chionetti · 2019 · ISBN 9781591433569
Cited by the Wikipedia article; not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READMysterious Psychic Forces
Flammarion · 1907 · Project Gutenberg #39279
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the astronomer's séance investigations, Eusapia Palladino
BOOK · CHECKED 2026-09-29
USEDMysterious Somerset and Bristol
Daniel Codd · Derby Books · 2011
Codd saw the skull in February 2010. Quoted via Wikipedia (Chilton Cantelo); the book itself not read.
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN
USEDMyths of the Cherokee
James Mooney · 1900 · Project Gutenberg #45634
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LEAD — NOT YET READO Caso Varginha
Ubirajara Rodrigues · 2001
The main ufological investigation of the case, in Portuguese. Cited by the Wikipedia article; not read.
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USEDPanacea Museum, 'This is the Box' ('The very first custodian of this precious object was William Sharp (1749 - 1824)')
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDPerry Deane Young, The Untold Story of Frankie Silver (2012)
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDPink Tentacle (2010)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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LEAD — NOT YET READPolish Fairy Tales
Gliński · 1920 · Project Gutenberg #36668
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the nearest neighbour to the Baltic run; Lithuanian folklore in English was not found
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USEDRaskin (2018)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READRaymond; or, Life and Death
Lodge · 1916 · Project Gutenberg #51086
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the physicist's sittings for his son killed in 1915 — the most famous WWI mediumship case
BOOK · CHECKED 2026-09-30
LEAD — NOT YET READReyes sobre la tierra: brujería y chamanismo en una cultura insular. Chiloé entre los siglos XVIII y XX
Gonzalo Rojas Flores · 2002
Full study of the trial; cited by Spanish Wikipedia. Not read.
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USEDRichard Chase, Grandfather Tales (Houghton Mifflin, 1948)
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDRichard Chase, The Jack Tales (Houghton Mifflin, 1943), collected from the Ward–Harmon family, Beech Mountain NC
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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LEAD — NOT YET READRoman Antiquities at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire
William Hiley Bathurst · Longmans, Green, and Co. · 1879
The estate's own publication of the finds; not read (cited by Wikipedia).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READRoman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome
Busk · 1877 · Project Gutenberg #48771
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Roman ghost and devil legends tied to real streets and churches
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USEDRoss (1973)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDRuth Ann Musick, The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales (University Press of Kentucky, 1965)
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · CHECKED 2026-10-01
LEAD — NOT YET READSagen aus Liechtenstein
Otto Seger · 1966
Liechtenstein's saga collection, cited by the German article. The next source for Liechtenstein. Not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READSchloss Bernstein im Burgenland. Fragmente aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart
W. Erwemweig (Anton von Gyömörey) · 1927
The witness accounts Illig used in 1929, cited by the German article. Not read.
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USEDScott Reynolds Nelson, Steel Drivin' Man (2006)
Citation as recorded on the story (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDScreeton (2012)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDScreeton (2012) — lost since the late 1970s
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USEDSmithsonian, 'History of the Hope Diamond' (1839 catalogue of the Hope collection; sold 1901)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · CHECKED 2026-09-29
LEAD — NOT YET READStranger Than Science
Frank Edwards · 1959
Named by Mike Dash as the origin of the car's 'curse'. Not read.
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USEDSuperstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland
John Gregorson Campbell · 1900 · Project Gutenberg #61730
STORY · THE CATTLE TAKEN AND THE HILLOCK KEPT CLEANSTORY · THE CHANGELING AND THE CORN SIEVESTORY · THE EACH-UISGE — THE WATER-HORSESTORY · THE GRUAGACH AND THE MILK STONESTORY · THE KELPIE, THE WATER-BULL AND THE BEAST OF LOCH AWESTORY · THE MERMAIDSTORY · THE SÌTH — THE PEOPLE OF PEACESTORY · THE ÙRUISGBOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READThe Algonquin Legends of New England
Leland · 1884 · Project Gutenberg #6803
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READThe Fairy Mythology
Keightley · 1828 · Project Gutenberg #41006
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Geoglyphs of Palpa, Peru: Documentation, Analysis, and Interpretation
Karsten Lambers · Lindensoft Verlag · 2006 · ISBN 9783929290325
Not read.
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USEDThe Ghost In My Machine (2022) — the doll is on view at the temple
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Gold of the Gods
Erich von Däniken · Bantam Books · 1974 · ISBN 9780553109689
The book that popularised the Tayos 'metal library'. Cited by the Wikipedia article; not read.
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Golden Asse
Apuleius · 2nd c.; Adlington tr. 1566 · Project Gutenberg #1666
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Thessalian witchcraft as the ancient world told it. A novel — shelve as literature, say so
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READThe Golden Bough
Frazer · 1890 · Project Gutenberg #3623
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READThe Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country
Kirby · 1895 · Project Gutenberg #19438
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Estonia: the Kalevipoeg epic and Estonian legends — the only English Estonian folklore source found
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-09-29
USEDThe History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, vol. 2
John Collinson · 1791
a head, chop-fallen enough, is still shewn, which the tenants of the house have often endeavoured to commit to the bowels of the earth, but have been as often deterred by horrid noises, portentive of sad displeasure
Chilton-Cantelo, pp. 339–340, read in the Internet Archive text; also Brome's inscription (d. 18 August 1670, aged 69).
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LEAD — NOT YET READThe Law of Psychic Phenomena
Hudson · 1893 · Project Gutenberg #54665
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the 1890s psychological explanation of mediumship and hypnosis
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READThe Problems of Psychical Research
Carrington · 1914 · Project Gutenberg #23660
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). the field's methods and fraud tests, by its best-known investigator
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN
USEDThe secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies
Robert Kirk · 1691 · Project Gutenberg #75485
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READThe Varieties of Religious Experience
James · 1902 · Project Gutenberg #621
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07).
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USEDThirsk Museum, 'displays' (hung out of harm's way in 1978)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READTwenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter
O'Donnell · 1916 · Project Gutenberg #50775
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). a working ghost-hunter's casebook; pairs with the four O'Donnells shelved
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USEDUdal, Dorsetshire Folk-lore (1922)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-09-24
CONSULTEDUnwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
Nathaniel B. Emerson · Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 38 · 1909 · Project Gutenberg #20299
Fetched 2026-09-24, not yet used. The next source for Pele, Hiʻiaka and the hula.
BOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN
USEDVisions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, First Series
Lady Gregory · 1920 · Project Gutenberg #43973
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USEDWikipedia, 'Baker Mansion' (Society purchase 1941)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDWikipedia, Baleroy Mansion (Easby family from 1925/26; contents sold 2012)
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USEDWikipedia, Black Aggie (installed 1926)
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USEDWikipedia, Black Orlov ('reportedly took the diamond to the United States' in 1932)
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USEDWikipedia, Black Orlov (bought by Petimezas in 2004)
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USEDWikipedia, Joanna Southcott (transferred to the Panacea Charitable Trust on the death of the Society's last member in 2012)
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USEDWikipedia, Legends of Myrtles Plantation (Unsolved Mysteries filmed the hauntings in 2001)
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USEDWikipedia, Wardley Hall (rediscovered in 1745)
Provenance citation (back-filled 2026-09-24).
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USEDWitchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland
John Gregorson Campbell · 1902 · Project Gutenberg #58894
STORY · AN DÀ SHEALLADH — THE TWO SIGHTSSTORY · GIVING AWAY THE SECOND SIGHTSTORY · HUGH OF THE LITTLE HEADSTORY · THE BLACK WALKER OF THE FORDSTORY · THE BÒCHDANSTORY · TWO HOUSES: BONSKEID AND KILMOLUAGSTORY · THE CORP CREADHA — THE CLAY CORPSESTORY · EACH FAMILY ITS OWN WARNINGSTORY · THE MAN AT KIRKAPOLSTORY · THE SEER WHO SAW HIS OWN PHANTOMSTORY · WHO THE HIGHLAND WITCHES ACTUALLY WERESTORY · WITCHES AS HARESBOOK · PUBLIC-DOMAIN · CHECKED 2026-10-07
LEAD — NOT YET READWitchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland
Maxwell Wood · 1911 · Project Gutenberg #43966
Candidate for the Reading Room (list 2026-10-07). Galloway and Dumfries witch trials and hauntings — local and citable
BOOK · CHECKED 2026-09-30
LEAD — NOT YET READПривидение в Инженерном замке (The Ghost in the Engineers' Castle)
Nikolai Leskov
Leskov's story that demystifies the ghost; cited by Russian Wikipedia. Not yet read.