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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

Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience, by William F. Williams, Facts on File, 2000, ISBN 081603351X

Albert Abrams

• Human Energy, by Albert Abrams;
• New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment, by Albert Abrams;

Atlantis

• The Secred Doctrine, by Madame Blavatsky;
• Atlantis, by Ignatius Donnelly;
• Critias, by Plato;
• Timaeus, by Plato;

Francis Bacon

• 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

• 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

• Creative Evolution, by Henri Bergson;
• An Introduction to Metaphysics, by Henri Bergson;
• Matter and Memory, by Henri Bergson;

Johann Beringer

• Lithographia Wirceburgensis, by Johann Beringer;

Raymond Bernard

• 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

• Occult Chemistry, by Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater;

Madame Blavatsky

• Isis Unveiled, by Madame Blavatsky;
• The Secret Doctrine, by Madame Blavatsky;

Frederick Bligh Bond

• The Gate of Remembrance, by Frederick Bligh Bond;

Saint Brendan

• Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot;

Brunonianism

• De Occulta Philosophia, by Agrippa;

Celery

• 1906 Colliers series on nostrums by Samuel Hopkins Adams;
• Great Things, What They Are, Where They Are (1883);

Census of Hallucinations

• Phantasms of the Living, by Edmond Gurney, et. al.;
• Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 10 (1894);

Houston Stewart Chamberlain

• Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, by Houston Stewart Chamberlain;

Christian Science

• Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy;
• Science of Man, by Mary Baker Eddy;

George Combe

• 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

• De Revolutionibus Orbium Celestium, by Galileo;

Cottingley fairies

• The Coming of the Fairies, by Arthur Conan Doyle;
• Strand magazine articles by Arthur Conan Doyle, December 1920 and March 1921;

Covens

• The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, by Margaret Murray;

Creation Science

• Annals of the Old Testament, by James Ussher;

Aleister Crowley

• The Book of the Law, by Aleister Crowley;

Cryptozoology

• The Great Sea-Serpent, by Antoon Cornelius Oudemans;

Cuforhedake brane-fude

• Collier's article by Samuel Hopkins Adams;

Cycles theories

• The Rhythm of Life, by Wilhelm Fleiss;

Charles Robert Darwin

• The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin;
• On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin;

Andrew Jackson Davis

• 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

• The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells;

Deluge man

• On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin;

Dermo-optical perception

• Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell;

Diluvialism

• 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

• The Mind and Its Place in Nature, by C. D. Broad;

Earth-centered astronomy

• On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, by Nicolas Copernicus;

Arnold Erhet

• Mucusless-diet healing system, by Arnold Erhet;

Henry Havelock Ellis

• 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

• Hereditary Descent, by Francis Galton;

Evolution, progressive

• 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

• Eyeless Sight, by Jules Romains;

Fairies

• The Secret Commonwealth, by Robert Kirk;

Horace Fletcher

• Fletcherism, What It Is, by Horace Fletcher;

Theodore Flournoy

• 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

• The Book of the Damned, by Charles Fort;
• New Lands, by Charles Fort;
• The Outcast Manufactures, by Charles Fort;

Sigmund Freud

• 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

• Anatomie et physiologie du systeme nerveux en general et du ceveau en particulier, by Franz Joseph Gall;

Francis Galton

• Hereditary Genius, by Francis Galton;

Comte Joseph de Gobineau

• Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, by Comte Joseph de Gobineau;

Sylvester Graham

• 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

• Encyclopedia of Physical Culture by Bernarr Macfadden;

Graphology

• 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

• On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin;

Nehemiah Grew/Marcello Malphigi

• The Anatomy of Plants, by Nehemiah Grew;
• Cosmologia Sacra, by Nehemiah Grew;
• Anatome Plantorum, by Marcello Malphigi;

William Harvey

• De Moto Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus, by William Harvey;

Heliocentrism

• On the Revolutions of Celestial Bodies, by Nicholas Copernicus;
• Almagest, by Ptolemy;

Bernard Heuvelemans

• The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle;
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne;

Hollow Earth doctrine

• 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

• The Organon of Homeopathic Medicine, by Samuel Christian Hahnemann;
• Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions, by Oliver Wendell Holmes;

Hans Horbiger

• Glazial-Kosmogonie, by Hans Horbiger;

Harry Houdini

• A Magician among the Spirits, by Harry Houdini;

Thomas Jay Hudson

• 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

• I Ching;

Incubus and succubus

• Summa Theologica, by Thomas Aquinas;
• City of God, by Augustine;

Intelligence tests

• Crania Americana, by Samuel George Morton;

Invisibility

• The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells;

Iridology

• Iridiagnosis and Other Diagnostic Methods, by Henry Lindlahr;

William James

• The Principles of Psychology, by William James;
• The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James;

Jenny Haniver

• Traite generale des pesches, by Henri-Louis Duhamel;
• Historia Animalium, by Conrad Gesner;

Carl Gustav Jung

• Psychology of the Unconscious, by Carl Gustav Jung;

Kabbalah

• Zohar;

John Harvey Kellogg

• The Natural Diet of Man, by John Harvey Kellogg;
• Modern Medicine and Bacteriological World;

Walter John Kilner

• The Human Atmosphere, by Walter John Kilner;

Kinderhook plates

• The Book of Mormon;

King Solomon's mines

• King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard;

Knossos

• The Palace of Minos, by Arthur Evans;

Kraken

• Natural History of Norway, by Erik Pontoppidian;

Jean Baptiste Lamarck

• Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin;
• The Natural History of Invertebrates, by Jean Baptiste Lamarck;
• Zoological Philosophy, by Jean Baptiste Lamarck;

Lamarckianism

• Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin;
• Zoological Philosophy, by Jean Baptiste Lamarck;

Alfred A. Lawson

• Born Again, by Alfred A. Lawson;
• Manlife, by Alfred A. Lawson;

Ley lines

• British Trackways, by Alfred Watkins;
• The Old Straight Track, by Alfred Watkins;

Lindorms

• The Natural History of Norway, by Erik Pontoppidan;

Lycanthropy

• The City of God, by Augustine;
• Satyricon;

Charles Lyell

• Principles of Geology, by Charles Lyell;

Magic

• The Golden Bough, by James G. Frazer;

Thomas Robert Malthus

• Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvment of Society, by Thomas Robert Malthus;

Cotton Mather

• 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

• Raymond, by Oliver J. Lodge;

Merlin

• Historia Regum Britanniae, by Geoffrey of Monmouth;

Microbe killer

• R. G. Eccles in Druggist's Circular (1889);

James Burnett Monboddo

• Of the Origin and Progress of Language, by James Burnett Monboddo;

Moon, life on the

• 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

• Human Personality and Its Survival after Bodily Death, by F. W. H. Myers;

Mystery Hill

• Antiquitatis Americanae, by Charles C. Rafn;

Natural theology

• Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin;
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume;

Nebular hypothesis

• Exposition de Systeme du Monde, by Pierre Simon Laplace;

Neptunism

• Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton;

Isaac Newton

• Principia, by Isaac Newton;

Nostradamus

• Prophecies of Nostradamus;

Nostrums

• Collier's 1905 series by Samuel Hopkins Adams;

Occultism

• I Ching;

Ontogency and Phylogeny

• Uber Arbeitsheitlung in Natur und Menschenleben, by Ernst Haeckel;

Antoon Cornelis Oudemans

• The Great Sea Serpent, by Antoon Cornelis Oudemans;

William Paley

• 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

• The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, by John Webster;

Robert Edwin Peary

• 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

• Samuel Hopkins Adams' Collier's series;

Phrenology

• Anatomie et Physiologie du systeme nerveux en general et du cerveau en particular, by Franz Gall et al.;

Pliny the elder

• Historia naturalis, by Pliny the Elder;

Polar shift

• Electricity and Magnetism, by S. G. Starling;

George McCready Price

• The New Geology, by George McCready Price;

George Psamanazar

• A Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, by Gbeorge Psamanazar;

Psychic photography

• Princess Mary's Gift Book;

Pyramid inch

• 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

• The Great Pyramid – Its Divine Message, by David Davidson;

Racial theories

• Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler;
• Account of the Racial Gradation in Man, by Charles White;

Religious Science

• The Law of Psychic Phenomena, by Thomas Jay Hudson;
• The Edinburgh Lectures, by Thomas Troward;

Root races

• The Secret Doctrine, by Madame Blavatsky;
• Atlantis and Lemuria, by Rudolph Steiner;
• The Story of Atlantis (1914);

Alfred Rosenberg

• The Protocols of Zion (1923);

Science fiction and science

• 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

• Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment without Glasses, by William Horatio Bates;

Samuel G. Soal

• Raymond, by Oliver Lodge;

Social Darwinism

• On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin;

Soviet science

• The Dialectics of Nature, by Friedrich Engels;

Lewis Spence

• An Encyclopedia of Occultism, by Lewis Spence;
• The Problem of Atlantis, by Lewis Spence;

Johann Christophe Gaspar Spurzheim

• Anatomie et Physiologie du systeme nerveux en general et du cerveau en particular, by Franz Gall, et. al.;

Rudolf Steiner

• The Philosophy of Freedom, by Rudolf Steiner;

William Stukeley

• Stonehenge, a Temple Restored to the British Druids, by William Stukeley;

Sun stood still, day the

• Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, by Galileo Galilei;

John Cleves Symmes

• 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

• Theory of Color, by J. W. von Goethe;

Talking apes

• Apes and Monkeys, by Richard L. Garner;
• Gorillas and Chimpanzees, by Richard L. Garner;
• The Speech of Monkeys, by Richard L. Garner;

Tar water

• Siris, a Chain of philosophical reflections and Enquiries on the Virtue of Tar Water, by George Berkeley;

Tatzelwurm

• Alpenrosen (1841);
• Das Thierleben der Alpenwelt, by Friedrich von Tschudi;

Cyrus Reed Teed

• The Cellular Cosmology, by Cyrus Reed Teed;
• The Illumination of Koresh, by Cyrus Reed Teed;

Theosophy

• Isis Unveiled, by Madame Blavatsky;
• The Secret Doctrine, by Madame Blavatsky;

Time travel

• 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

• 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

• Iliad, by Homer;
• Ilios, by Heinrich Schliemann;

Tychonic system

• De Astronomicis Hypothesibus, by Nicholas Reimer;

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

• Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, by Robert Chambers;
• Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin;

Virgil

• Divine Comedy, by Dante;
• Iliad, by Homer;
• Odyssey, by Homer;
• Aeneid, by Virgil;

Alfred Russel Wallace

• 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

The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience, ed. by Michael Shermer, ABC-Clio, 2002, ISBN 157607-653-9.

Alternative archaeology

• Atlantis, by Ignatius Donnelly;

Clever Hans

• Clever Hans, by O. Pfungst;

Fairies, elves, pixies, and gnomes

• 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

• The Golden Bough by James G. Frazer;

Piltdown Man

• The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin;

Polygraph and lie detection

• “Systolic Blood Pressure Symptoms of Deception,” by William Moulton Marston, Journal of Experimental Psychology 2 (1917);

Prayer and healing

• Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayer, by F. Galton, Fortnightly Review 12 (1872);

Reincarnation

• Principles of Psychology, by William James;

Societies for Psychical Research

• Phantasms of the Living, by Edmond Gurney et al.;