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• English Penitential Discipline and Anglo-Saxon Law in Their Joint Influence (Columbia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law v107 #2 (whole #242); 1923), by Thomas Pollock Oakley (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• On Modesty, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• English Penitential Discipline and Anglo-Saxon Law in Their Joint Influence (Columbia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law v107 #2 (whole #242); 1923), by Thomas Pollock Oakley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (multiple editions)

• A Devotion to Nutrition (New York: Vantage Press, c1954), by Frederick Hoelzel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fasting Cure (New York and London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1911), by Upton Sinclair
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at soilandhealth.org

• The Spirituality of Fasting (revised 1997), by Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria Shanūdah III, illust. by Sister Sawsan (illustrated HTML at tasbeha.org)

• A Hunger for God: Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer, by John Piper (PDF with commentary at desiringgod.org)
• On Fasting, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• The Spirituality of Fasting (revised 1997), by Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria Shanūdah III, illust. by Sister Sawsan (illustrated HTML at tasbeha.org)

• Fast (revised edition, 1974), by Akhtar Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Fast (revised edition, 1974), by Akhtar Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• Beacons on the Talmud's Sea: Analyses of Passages From The Talmud And Issues In Halachah, Adapted From The Works of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at chabad.org)

• Jewish Holyday Stories: Modern Tales of the American Jewish Youth (second printing; New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1921), by Elma Ehrlich Levinger
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Ten and a Kid (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, c1961), by Sadie Rose Weilerstein, illust. by Janina Domanska (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minhag Amerika: The Divine Service of American Israelites for the Day of Atonement (Cincinnati: Bloch and Co., c1866), ed. by Isaac Mayer Wise (PDF at americanjewisharchives.org)

• Haggadah Shel Pesach: Haggadah for Passover, With an English Translation (in Hebrew and English, with notes; Brooklyn: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, 2019), trans. by Jacob Immanuel Schochet (PDF with commentary at chabad.org)
• HIAS Haggadah (c2019), by HIAS (Agency) (PDF files with commentary at hias.org)
• The Passover Haggadah (in English, with notes), ed. by Chabad Lubavitch (Organization) (HTML at chabad.org)

• Uncle Eli's Special for Kids Most Fun Under the Table Passover Haggadah (hypermedia edition), by Eliezer Segal (illustrated HTML in Canada)

• David of Modin: A Chanukah Play (New York: Bloch Pub. Co., c1903), by Jacob J. Leibson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (also known as The Kebra Nagast; London et al.: Medici Society, 1922), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (Kebra Nagast), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (PDF at In Parentheses)

• The Paschal Feast in the Bible, by Pierre Grelot and J. Pierron (HTML at EWTN)
• The Union Haggadah: Home Service for the Passover (1923), ed. by Central Conference of American Rabbis, illust. by Isidore Lipton (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Uncle Eli's Special for Kids Most Fun Under the Table Passover Haggadah (hypermedia edition), by Eliezer Segal (illustrated HTML in Canada)

• The Passover Meal: A Ritual For Christian Homes (c1972), by Arleen McCarty Hynes (HTML at EWTN)

• Purim Portfolio (New York: Zionist Organization of America, 1946), ed. by Joseph Greenstein (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Greek Saints and Their Festivals (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1910), by Mary Agnes Hamilton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Annus Ecclesiasticus Graeco-Slavicus, Editus Anno Millenario Sanctorum Cyrilli et Methodii, Slavice Geatis Apostolorum (in Latin; Brussels: Typ. Henrici Goemaere, 1863), by I. Martynov
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals (Los Angeles et al.: St. Alban Press, 1920), by C. W. Leadbeater
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Festival of the Dead (reprinted as New Materials for the History of Man #1; Toronto: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1920), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work), by Egeria, trans. by M. L. McClure and Charles Lett Feltoe (HTML at CCEL)
• The Pilgrimage of S. Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places (Circ. 385 A.D.) (in English only (Latin text omitted); London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896), by Egeria, ed. by J. H. Bernard, contrib. by Charles William Wilson (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• An Essay on the Proper Lessons, Appointed by the Liturgy of the Church of England, to be Read on Sundays and Chief Festivals Throughout the Year, As They Are Directed by Her Table of Proper Lessons (third edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for Ogles, Duncan, and Cochhan, 1818), by William Wogan, contrib. by James Gatliff
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • annotated transcription of Gatliff's life of the author in v1: multiple formats in the UK

• A Testimony for Truth Against All Hireling Priests and Deceivers, by Judith Boulbie (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Matsuri: Festival and Rite in Japanese Life (Tokyo: Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, c1988), trans. by Norman Havens (HTML in Japan)

• The Feasts of Camelot, with the Tales That Were Told There (London: Bell and Daldy, 1863), by Mrs. T. K. Hervey (multiple formats at Google)

• True Christmas Spirit (c1955), by Edward J. Sutfin (HTML at EWTN)
• The Twelve Days of Christmas (c1955), by Elsa Chaney (HTML at EWTN)
• Our Christmas Symbols (Raleigh, NC: Graphic Press, c1953), by Aylene E. Cooke and Cameron Cooke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Christmas: Sun, Saviour and Santa Claus (Atlanta: Oglethorpe University Press, 1941), by Thornwell Jacobs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Christmas Book: Origin of the Christmas Tree, the Mistletoe, the Yule Log and St. Nicholas (Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1898), by Carla Wenckebach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas Entertainments (originally published in 1740 as "Round About Our Coal Fire"; reprinted London: Field and Tuer, et al., ca. 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan (London: T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Clement A. Miles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Feast of St. Friend: A Christmas Book (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1911), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Friendship and Happiness (Hodder and Stoughton edition; usually titled "The Feast of St. Friend"), by Arnold Bennett (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Lights of Beacon Hill: A Christmas Message (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922), by Abbie Farwell Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mystical Interpretation of Christmas, by Max Heindel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Myths and Legends of Christmastide (San Francisco: Stanley-Taylor Co., 1901), by Bertha F. Herrick (Gutenberg text)
• Yule-Tide in Many Lands, by Mary Poague Pringle and Clara A. Urann, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Little Book for Christmas (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, illust. by Will Crawford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• St. Nicholas: His Legend and His Rôle in the Christmas Celebration and Other Popular Customs (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by George Harley McKnight
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• St. Paul and Protestantism, With Other Essays (popular edition; London: Smith, Elder, 1892), by Matthew Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)

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