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This page will list sources known to be in the public domain at present, or to be in the public domain by the end of the current year (2015 as of this writing). These works will be listed according to the volume in which they are used as a reference source, and, where possible, following the name of the article in which they are included as a reference of one sort or another, either in the text of the article itself or in the bibliography at the end of the article.

The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, 2nd ed.

The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, 2nd ed., by Rosemary Ellen Guiley, ISBN 0816040869

Angels of Mons

• The Angels of Mons by Arthur Machen;

Animism

• Primitive Religion by Robert Lowie;

Ankou

• The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz;

Apparition

• Phantasms of the Living by Edmund Gurney et al.;
• The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang;
• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;
• “Report on the Census of Hallucinations,” by Henry Sidgwick, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 30 (1894);

Arrival cases

• Phantasms of the Living by Edmund Gurney et al.;

Automatic writing

• Contact with the Other World by James H. Hyslop;
• “Notes on Automatic Writing,” by William James, in The Works of William James: Essay in Psychical Research;
• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;

Automatism

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;

Ballechin House

• Haunted Houses by Charles G. Harper;

William Fletcher Barrett

• “Some Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Psychical Research,” by William Barrett, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 34 (1924);

Bilocation

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;

Frederick Bligh Bond

• The Gate of Remembrance by Frederick Bligh Bond;

Book test

• “An Examination of Book-tests Obtained in Sittings with Mrs. Leonard,” by E. M. Sidgwick, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 31 (1921);

Calvados Castle

• Haunted Houses by Camille Flammarion;

Cauld Lad of Hilton

– Haunted Houses by Charles G. Harper; 

Chaffin Will Case

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;

Cheltenham Haunting

• “Record of a Haunted House,” by R. C. Morton, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 8 (1892);
• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;

Cock Lane Ghost

• Cock Lane & Common Sense by Andrew Lang;
• Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay;

Corpse candles

• By-ways of Ghost-Land, by Elliott O'Donnell;

Cottingley Fairies

• The Coming of the Fairies, by Arthur Conan Doyle;

Mina Stinson Crandon

• ”Margery” the Medium, by Malcolm Bird;

William Jackson Crawford

• “Report of Physical Phenomena Taking Place at Belfast with Dr. Crawford's Medium,” by William Barrett, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 88 (1920);

William Crookes

• “In Memory of Sir William Crookes,” by William Barrett, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 79 (1920);
• The Life of Sir William Crookes, by E. E. Fournier' d'Albe;

Cult of the Zar or Cult of the Sar

• Possession, by T. K. Oesterreich;

Daimon

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;

Deathbed visions

• Phantasms of the Living by Edmund Gurney et al.;

Double

• Phantasms of the Living by Edmund Gurney et al.;

Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Coming of the Fairies, by Arthur Conan Doyle;

Drummer of Cortachy

• Haunted Houses, by Charles G. Harper;

Drummer of Tedworth

• Sadiucismus Triumphatus, by Joseph Glanvil;

Ear of Dionysius

• The Ear of Dionysius, by Gerald William Balfour;

Faceless Woman

• Kwaidan, by Lafcadio Hearn;

Fairy

• The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, by W. Y. Evans-Wentz;

Fifty Berkeley Square

• Haunted House, by Charles G. Harper;

Gustave Geley

• “In memorium: Gustsave Geley,” by Oliver Lodge, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 34 (1924);

Ghost

• The Book of Dreams and Ghosts, by Andrew Lang;
• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;

Glamis Castle

• Haunted Houses, by Charles G. Harper;

Grottendieck Stone-Thrower

• “A Poltergeist Case,” Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 12 (1906);
• “Correspondence,” Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 12 (1906);

Harpers Ferry

• The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry with Legends of the Surrounding County, by Joseph Barry;

Haunting

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;

Richard Hodgson

• “Mr. Davey's Imitations by Conjuring of Phenomena Sometimes Attributed to Spirit Agency,” by Richard Hodgson, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 8 (1892);
• “Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate Phenomena Connected with the Theosophical Society, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 3 (1885);

Daniel Dunglas Home

• Experiences in Spiritualism with D. D. Home, by Earl of Dunraven;

Indridi Indridason

• “Remarkable Phenomena in Iceland,” by Gudmundur Hannesson, Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 18 (1924);

Institut Metaphysique International

• “In memoriam-Gustave Geley,” by Oliver Lodge, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 34 (1924);

Kachina

• Hopi Kachinas, by Jesse Walter Fewkes;

Gladys Osborne Leonard

• “On a Series of Sittings with Mrs. Osborne Leonard,” by Radclyffe Hall and Lady Una Troubridge, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 30 (1919);

Thomas Lyttleton

• Haunted Houses,by Charles G. Harper;

William McDougall

• “Presidential Address,” by William McDougall, Proceedngs of the Society for Psychical Research 80 (1920);

William Stainton Moses

• “The Experience of W. Stainton Moses – I,” by F. W. H. Myers, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 9 (1894);

Newspaper test

• Some New Evidence for Human Survival, by Charles Drayton Thomas;

Leonora Evelina Simonds Piper

• Studies in Spiritualism, by Amy Tanner and G. Stanley Hall;

Frank Podmore

• “Frank Podmore and Psychical Research,” by Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 25 (1911);

Poltergeist

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;

Radiant boy

• Haunted Houses,by Charles G. Harper;

Sakura, ghost of

• Tales of Old Japan, by A. B. Mitford;

Henry Slade

• Modern Spiritualism, by Frank Podmore;

Slate-writing

• Modern Spiritualism, by Frank Podmore;

Soul

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;

Spirit

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;

Spirit attachment

• Thirty Years among the Dead, by Carl A. Wickland;

Spirit photography

• “Experiences in Psychic Photography,” by Hereward Carrington, Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 19 (1925);

Spirit releasement

• Thirty Years among the Dead, by Carl A. Wickland;

Stone-throwing devil

• An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, by Increase Mather;
• Lithobolia,” by R. C. Esq.;

Survival tests

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;

Emanuel Swedenborg

• Divine Love and Wisdom, by Emanuel Swedenborg;
• Divine Providence, by Emanuel Swedenborg;
• The Four Doctrines, by Emanuel Swedenborg;

Thompson-Gifford Case

• Contact with the Other World, by James H. Hyslop;

Totemism

• “Totemism and the A. E. F.,” by Ralph Linton, American Anthropologist 26 (1924);

Thomas Weir

• Haunted Houses, by Charles G. Harper;

Carl A. Wickland

• Thirty Years among the Dead, by Carl A. Wickland;

Wilmot Apparition

• Phantasms of the Living by Edmund Gurney et al.;
• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic W. H. Myers;
• “On the Evidence for Clairvoyance,” by Eleanor Sidgwick, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 8 (1891);

Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experience

Harper's encyclopedia of mystical & paranormal experience,by Rosemary Guiley, HarperSanFrancisco, 1991, ISBN 9780062503657; ISBN 9780062503664

Akasha

• Isis Unveiled, by H. P. Blavatsky;
• The Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky;

Amulet

• The Magus, by Francis Barrett;

Angels

• '”The Magus, by Francis Barrett;
• '”Divine Providence, by Emanuel Swedenborg;

Apparition

• Phantasms of the Living, by Edmund Gurney et al.;
• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederick W. Myers;

Atlantis

• The Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky;
• Atlantis, by Ignatius Donnelly;

Aura

• The Human Aura, by Walter J. Kilner;
• Man Visible and Invisible, by C. W. Leadbeater;

Automatic writing

• Contact with the Other World, by James Hervey Hyslop;
• 'Notes on Automatic Writing,' by William James, in William James: Essays in Psychical Research;
• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederick W. Myers;

Automatism

• Contact with the Other World, by James H. Hyslop;

Bernard of Clarivaux

• Opera Omnia, by Bernard of Clairvaux, in Patrologia Latina, by Migne;
• St. Bernard's Sermon on the Canticle of Canticles, by a priest of Mount Mellory;

Bird

• The Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky;

William Blake

• William Blake: His Mysticism, by Maung Ba Han;

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

• Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky, by A. P. Sinnett;
• The Encyclopedia of the Occult, by Lewis Spence;

Cagliostro

• '”Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay;

Charismatic renewal

• 'Christianity and Psychic Research,' by James H. Hyslop, ASPR Vol 10#5 (May 1916);

Colors

• The Science of the Sacraments, by C. W. Leadbeater;

Depression

• Thirty Years Among the Dead, by Carl Wickland;

Deva

• The Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky;

Double

• Egyptian Magic, by E. A. Wallis Budge;

Ecstasy

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederick W. Myers;

Evil eye

• Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions, by James Bonwick;
• The Evil Eye, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy;

Eye of Horus

• Egyptian Magic, by E. A. Wallis Budge;

Fairies

• The Coming of the Fairies, by Arthur Conan Doyle;
• '”Fairies at Work and Play, by Geoffrey Hudson;

Fakir

• Occult Science in India and Among the Ancients, by Lewis Jacillot;

Firewalking

• 'The Firewalk,' by Andrew Lang, Proceedings SPR 15, 36 (1900-01);

Freemasonry

• The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, by Manly P. Hall;
• Masonic Facts and Fictions, by Henry Sadler;

Glastonbury

• The Gate of Remembrance, by Frederick Bligh Bond;

Glossolalia

• 'Psychic Phenomena and Christology,' by James H. Hyslop, Journal ASPR 16, 1 (Jan. 1922);

Haunting

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederick W. Myers;

Daniel Dunglas Home

• Experiences in Spiritualism with D. D. Home, by Earl of Dunraven;

Hypnosis

• The Evolution of the Soul, by Thomas Jay Hudson;

Inspiration

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederick W. Myers;
• Operations of the Other Mind, by Edmund Shaftesbury;

Intuition

• Tertium Organum, by P. D. Ouspensky;
• Operations of the Other Mind, by Edmund Shaftesbury;

William James

• 'A Case of Clairvoyance,' by William James, Proceedings ASPR 1, p. 2 (1907);
• The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James;

Joan of Arc

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederick W. Myers;

Kali Yuga

• Isis Unveiled, by H. P. Blavatsky;
• The Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky;

Lemuria

• The Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky;

Gladys Osborne Leonard

• Raymond, by Oliver Lodge;

Merlin

• King Arthur's Knights, by Henry Gilbert;

Mirror

• The Evil Eye, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy;
• The Golden Bough, (1890), by James G. Frazer;

Mystical experiences

• 'Cosmic Consciousness, by Richard Maurice Bucke;
• The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James;

Mysticism, Christian, or Christian mysticism

• Summa Theologica, by Thomas Aquinas;
• The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James;

Nature spirits

• '”Fairies at Work and Play, by Geoffrey Hudson;

Newspaper test

• From India to the Planet Mars, by Theodore Flournoy;
• New Evidence for Human Survival, by Charles Drayton Thomas;

Numerology

• The Magus, by Francis Barrett;

Omen

• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay;

Oracle

• The Golden Bough, by James G. Frazer;

Out-of-body experience

• Astral Projection, by Oliver Fox;

Paracelsus

• The Magus, by Francis Barrett;

Past-life recall

• Gleanings in Buddha Fields, by Lafcadio Hearn;

Leonora E. Piper

• Raymond, by Oliver Lodge;

Poltergeist

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederick W. Myers;

Prayer

• The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James;

Psychic archeology

• The Gate of Remembrance, by Frederick Bligh Bond;

Psychic attack

• The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James;

Psychometry

• 'Past Events Seership,' by Gustav Pagenstecher, Proceedings ASPR 16, 1 (Jan. 1923);

Rosicrucians

• Rosicrucian Manual, by H. Spencer Lewis;
• Encyclopedia of Occultism, by Lewis Spence;

Helene Smith

• From India to the Planet Mars, by Theodore Flournoy;
• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederick W. Myers;

Spirit guide

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederick W. Myers;

Spirit photography

• 'Experiences in Psychic Photography,' by Hereward Carrington, Journal ASPR 19 (1925);

Emanuel Swedenborg

• Divine Love and Wisdom, by Emanuel Swedenborg;
• Divine Providence, by Emanuel Swedenborg;
• The Four Doctrines, by Emanuel Swedenborg;

Talisman

• The Magus, by Francis Barrett;

Telepathic hypnosis

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederick W. Myers;

Telepathy

• Phantasms of the Living, by Edmund Gurney et al.;
• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederick W. Myers;

Theosophy

• 'Report of the Committee to Investigate...,' Proceedings SPR 3 (1885);

Thought-forms

• '”Thought-forms, by Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater;

Watseka Wonder

• Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederick W. Myers;