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• Lenderman's Adventures among the spiritualists and free-lovers : explaining how the "rappings," "table tippings," playing on the instruments, etc., are done, and where the spirit communicattion come from : containing a great number of exciting incidents of the ruin of individuals and families of lunacies; seductions and suicides, caused by these infernal systems of deception (Rulison, 1857), by Lenderman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Soakum : a story (The Author, 1912), by Harry Edmund Danford and D. S. Ross (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bear Zuni fetish (University of Oklahoma, 1948), by Ralph B. Shead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Modern American Spiritualism: A Twenty Years' Record of the Communion Between Earth and the World of Spirits (New York: The author, 1870), by Emma Hardinge Britten
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• The Davenport Brothers, The World Renowned Spiritual Mediums: Their Biography, and Adventures in Europe and America (Boston: W. White and Co.; New York: American News Co., 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves From My Life: A Narrative of Personal Experiences in the Career of a Servant of the Spirits; With Some Account of American Spiritualism, as Seen During a Twelvemonth's Visit to the United States (London: J. Burns, 1877), by J. J. Morse
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• Lenderman's Adventures among the spiritualists and free-lovers : explaining how the "rappings," "table tippings," playing on the instruments, etc., are done, and where the spirit communicattion come from : containing a great number of exciting incidents of the ruin of individuals and families of lunacies; seductions and suicides, caused by these infernal systems of deception (Rulison, 1857), by Lenderman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woodhull-Beecher imbroglio (Crane & Byron, 1872), by T. B. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern American spiritualism a twenty years' record of the communion between earth and the world of spirits (The author, 1870), by Emma Hardinge Britten (page images at HathiTrust)
• The leading of a minister (Christopher Publishing House, 1922), by Amelia Fargo Staley and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten years with spiritual mediums : an inquiry concerning the etiology of certain phenomena called spiritual (D. Appleton and Co., 1875), by Francis Gerry Fairfield and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten years with spiritual mediums : an inquiry concerning the etiology of certain phenomena called spiritual. (D. Appleton and company, 1875), by Francis Gerry Fairfield and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Book for Skeptics: Being Communications from Angels, Written With Their Own Hands; Also, Oral Communications, Spoken by Angels Through a Trumpet and Written Down as They Were Delivered In The Presence Of Many Witnesses; Also, a Representation and Explanation of The Celestial Spheres, as Given by The Spirits at J. Koons' Spirit Room, in Dover, Athens County, Ohio (Columbus, OH: Osgood and Blake, printers, 1853), by J. Everett, contrib. by Jonathan Koons (page images at ohiomemory.org)

• Lucy Boston: or, Woman's Rights and Spiritualism, Illustrating the Follies and Delusions of the Nineteenth Century (Boston: Shepard, Clark and Co.; Auburn and Rochester, NY: Alden and Beardsley, 1855), by Fred Folio
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• The undiscovered country. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1880), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esperanza : my journey thither and what I found there. (Valentine Nicholson, 1860), by Valentine Nicholson, Thomas Low Nichols, and Glenn Negley Collection of Utopian Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
• The soul of a young girl (Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1921), by Alma Lillian Wormington and Franklin Hudson Publishing Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ghostly Communion: Cross-Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2004), by John Kucich (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Mollie Fancher, "who am I?", an enigma (Press of Eagle Book Printing Dept., 1894), by Abram H. Dailey and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ghostly Communion: Cross-Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2004), by John Kucich (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Angles' visits to my farm in Florida (United States book company, 1892), by Golden Light (page images at HathiTrust)

• What I saw at Cassadaga lake : a review of the Seybert commissioners' report (Colby Rich, 1890), by A. B. Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explanation and history of the mysterious communion with spirits : comprehending the rise and progress of the mysterious noises in western New York, generally received as spiritual communications (Capron and Barron, 1850), by Eliab Wilkinson Capron and Henry D. Barron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eleven days at Moravia. (Boston, 1872), by Thomas R. Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Singular revelations. (Capron and Barron, 1850), by Eliab Wilkinson Capron, Henry D. Barron, and Henry D. Barron (page images at HathiTrust)

• Singular revelations. (Capron and Barron, 1850), by Eliab Wilkinson Capron, Henry D. Barron, and Henry D. Barron (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706, ed. by George Lincoln Burr (HTML at Virginia)
• The Devil in Britain and America (London: Ward and Downey, 1896), by John Ashton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The devil in Britain and America (Ward and Downey. ltd., 1896), by John Ashton (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Puritan witch; a romance (The Smart set publishing co., 1903), by Marvin Dana and P. R. Audibert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The witchcraft delusion in colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697 (The Grafton press, 1908), by John M. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old-time blue laws from the records of Massachusetts, Connecticut, including the witchcraft code. New York, Virginia and Maryland, and other curious old colony orders and penalities. (Dwight, 1891), by Maryland, Virginia, New York (State), Connecticut, New-Haven Colony, New Plymouth Colony, and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)

• A colonial witch; being a study of the black art in the colony of Connecticut (The Baker & Taylor Co., 1897), by Frank Samuel Child (page images at HathiTrust)

• The witchcraft delusion in colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697 (Grafton Press, 1908), by John M. Taylor and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697), by John M. Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)

• Witchcraft in Maryland ([Baltimore? : s.n.], 1937), by Francis Neal Parke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Final notes on witchcraft in Massachusetts : a summary vindication of the laws and liberties concerning attainders with corruption of blood, escheats, forteitures for crime, and pardon of offenders in reply to the "Reasons, " etc., of Hon. Abner C. Goodell Jr. (Printed for the author, 1885), by George Henry Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final notes on witchcraft in Massachusetts: a summary vindication of the laws and liberties concerning attainders with corruption of blood, escheats, forfeitures for crime, and pardon of offenders, in reply to "Reasons," etc., of Hon. Abner C. Goodell, jr. (Printed for the author, 1885), by George Henry Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Witchcraft pamphlets.] (1883), by George Henry Moore and Abner Cheney Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reasons for concluding that the Act of 1711, reversing the attainders of the persons convicted of witchcraft in Massachusetts in the year 1692, became a law : being a reply to Supplementary notes, etc., by George H. Moore LL.D. (J. Wilson, 1884), by Abner Cheney Goodell, Edward Dumbauld, and Massachusetts Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Further notes on the history of witchcraft in Massachusetts, containing additional evidence of the passage of the Act of 1711, for reversing the attainders of the witches; also, affirming the legality of the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer of 1692: with ... an appendix of documents, etc. (John Wilson and Son, 1884), by Abner Cheney Goodell and John Wilson and Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief and true narrative of some remarkable passages relating to sundry persons afflicted by witchcraft at Salem village, which happened from the nineteenth of March to the fifth of April, 1692 collected by Deodat Lawson. (Boston : Printed for Benjamin Harris, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1692), by Deodat Lawson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Lithobolia: or, The stone-throwing devil. Being an exact and true account (by way of journal) of the various actions of infernal spirits, or (devils incarnate) witches, or both; and the great disturbance and amazement they gave to George Waltons family, at a placed call'd Great island in the province of New-Hantshire in New-England, chiefly in throwing about (by an invisible hand) stones, bricks, and brick-bats of all sizes, with several other things, as hammers, mauls, iron-crows, spits, and other domestick utensils, as came into their hellish minds, and this for the space of a quarter of a year. ([Boston, 1939), by Richard Chamberlayne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lithobolia, or, The stone-throwing devil being an exact and true account (by way of journal) of the various actions of infernal spirits, or (devils incarnate) witches, or both, and the great disturbance and amazement they gave to George Waltons family, at a place call'd Great Island in the province of New-Hantshire in New-England ... / by R.C., Esq., who was a sojourner in the same family the whole time, and an ocular witness of these diabolick inventions ... (London : Printed, and are to be sold by E. Whitlook ..., 1698), by R. C. (Richard Chamberlayne) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Witchcraft in North Carolina (The University, 1919), by Tom Peete Cross (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Realness of Witchcraft in America (1942), by A. Monroe Aurand (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The "pow-wow" book; a treatise on the art of "healing by prayer" and "laying on of hands", etc., practiced by the Pennsylvania-Germans and others; testimonials; remarkable recoveries; popular superstitions; etc., including an account of the famous "witch" murder trial, at York, Pa. (Priv. print. by the Aurand press, 1929), by A. Monroe Aurand and Johann George Hohman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origins and language of central Pennsylvania witchcraft ([Reading eagle press], 1927), by Henry W. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The realness of witchcraft in America, with special references to the Pennsylvania Germans and the conflict of science vs. old time beliefs and customs (Priv. print., Aurand Press, 1942), by A. Monroe Aurand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch (slightly edited version of a work first published 1894), by M. V. Ingram (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Authenticated history of the Bell Witch : and other stories of the world's greatest unexplained phenomenon (W. P. Titus, printer, 1961), by M. V. Ingram (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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