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Works by number of times referred to as references
The following list as is is based on the number of times each work below is included in either the bibliography or article text of articles in the Williams Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience and The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience. Other matter will be added as the works are gone through.

9

 * On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin;

4

 * 1906 Collier's series on nostrums by Samuel Hopkins Adams;
 * The Sacred Doctrine, by Madame Blavatsky;
 * Philosophie Zoologique, by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck;

3

 * The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin;
 * Anatomie et physiologie du systeme nerveux en general et du ceveau en particulier, by Franz Joseph Gall;
 * Raymond, by Oliver J. Lodge;

2

 * The City of God, by Augustine;
 * Isis Unveiled, by Madame Blavatsky;
 * The Mind and Its Place in Nature, by C. D. Broad;
 * On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, by Nicola Copernicus;
 * Sketches of Imposture, Deception and Credulity, by Richard Alfred Davenport;
 * Atlantis, by Ignatius Donnelly;
 * The Coming of the Fairies, by Arthur Conan Doyle;
 * ”Fairies Photographed: An Epoch-Making Event,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Strand Magazine, December, 1920;
 * Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy;
 * Fletcherism, What It Is, by Horace Fletcher;
 * The Golden Bough, by James G. Frazer;
 * The Life of George Combe, by Charles Gibbon;
 * Phantasms of the Living, by Edmond Gurney et al.;
 * Iliad, by Homer;
 * A Magician among the Spirits, by Harry Houdini;
 * The Law of Psychic Phenomena, by Thomas Jay Hudson;
 * I Ching;
 * The Principles of Psychology, by William James;
 * The Natural Diet of Man, by John Harvey Kellogg;
 * The Human Atmosphere, by Walter John Kilner;
 * The Great Sea-Serpent, by Antoon Cornelius Oudemans;
 * Clever Hans, by Oskar Pfungst;
 * Historia naturalis, by Pliny the Elder;
 * Natural History of Norway, by Erik Pontoppidian;
 * The New Geology, by George McCready Price;
 * Eyeless Sight, by Jules Romains;
 * The Cellular Cosmology, by Cyrus Reed Teed;
 * The Illumination of Koresh, by Cyrus Reed Teed;
 * Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne;
 * The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells;
 * The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells;

A

 * Behind the Scenes with the Medium, by David P. Abbott;
 * Human Energy, by Albert Abrams;
 * New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment, by Albert Abrams;
 * De Occulta Philosophia, by Agrippa;
 * Alpenrosen (1841);
 * Summa Theologica, by Thomas Aquinas;
 * Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto;

B

 * 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;
 * Telepathy, by W. W. Baggally;
 * Treatise on a Method to Recognize the Nature and Quality of a Writer from His Letters, by Camillo Baldi;
 * 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;
 * The Humbugs of the World, by P. T. Barnum;
 * Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment without Glasses, by William Horatio Bates;
 * Creative Evolution, by Henri Bergson:
 * An Introduction to Metaphysics, by Henri Bergson:
 * Matter and Memory, by Henri Bergson:
 * Siris, a Chain of philosophical reflections and Enquiries on the Virtue of Tar Water, by George Berkeley;
 * Lithographia Wirceburgensis, by Johann Beringer;
 * 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;
 * Occult Chemistry, by Annie Besant with C. W. Leadbeater;
 * Spiritism Facts and Frauds, by Simon Augustine Blackmore;
 * The Gate of Remembrance, by Frederick Bligh Bond;
 * The Book of Mormon;
 * Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell;
 * The Sacred Theory of the Earth, by Thomas Burnet;
 * A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs;

C

 * More Wonders of the Invisible World, by Robert Calaf;
 * The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, by Hereward Carrington;
 * Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, by Houston Stewart Chamberlain;
 * Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, by Robert Chambers;
 * The Constitution of Man in Relation to External Objects, by George Combe;
 * Notes of the United States of America, 1838-9-40, by George Combe;
 * The Book of the Law, by Aleister Crowley;

D

 * Divine Comedy, by Dante;
 * The Death Blow to Spiritualism, by Reuben Briggs Davenport;
 * The Great Pyramid – Its Divine Message, by David Davidson;
 * 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;
 * Voyages to the Moon and the Sun, by Cyrano de Bergerac;
 * The Mutation Theory, by Hugo de Vries;
 * A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens;
 * The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle;
 * Strand magazine article, March 1921, by Arthur Conan Doyle;
 * Traite generale des pesches, by Henri-Louis Duhamel;

E

 * article in Druggist's Circular (1889), by R. G. Eccles;
 * Science of Man, by Mary Baker Eddy;
 * 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;
 * Planchette and Automatic Writing, by Ida Ellis;
 * The Dialectics of Nature, by Friedrich Engels;
 * Mucusless-diet healing system, by Arnold Erhet;
 * The Palace of Minos, by Arthur Evans;
 * Hours with the Ghosts, by Henry Ridgely Evans;
 * The Spirit World Unmasked, by Henry Ridgely Evans;
 * The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, by W. Y. Evans Wentz;

F

 * The Rhythm of Life, by Wilhelm Fleiss;
 * 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;
 * The Book of the Damned, by Charles Fort;
 * New Lands, by Charles Fort;
 * The Outcast Manufacturers, by Charles Fort;
 * 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;

G

 * De Revolutionibus Orbium Celestium, by Galileo Galilei;
 * Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, by Galileo Galilei;
 * Hereditary Descent, by Francis Galton;
 * Hereditary Genius, by Francis Galton;
 * “Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayer,” by F. Galton, Fortnightly Review 12 (1872); *Journey to the Earth's Interior, by Marshall B. Gardner;
 * The Speech of Monkeys, by Richard L. Garner;
 * Gorillas and Chimpanzees, by Richard L. Garner;
 * Apes and Monkeys, by Richard L. Garner;
 * Historia Regum Britanniae, by Geoffrey of Monmouth;
 * Historia Animalium, by Conrad Gesner;
 * Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, by Comte Joseph de Gobineau;
 * Theory of Color, by J. W. von Goethe;
 * 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;
 * Great Things, What They Are, Where They Are (1883);
 * The Anatomy of Plants, by Nehemiah Grew;
 * Cosmologia Sacra, by Nehemiah Grew;

H

 * Uber Arbeitsheitlung in Natur und Menschenleben, by Ernst Haeckel;
 * King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard;
 * The Organon of Homeopathic Medicine, by Samuel Christian Hahnemann;
 * De Moto Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus, by William Harvey;
 * Spiritualism, by J. Arthur Hill;
 * Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler;
 * Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions, by Oliver Wendell Holmes;
 * Odyssey, by Homer;
 * Glazial-Kosmogonie, by Hans Horbiger;
 * Houdini Exposes the Tricks Used by the Boston Medium 'Margery', by Harry Houdini;
 * The Right Way to Do Wrong, by Harry Houdini;
 * Scientific Demonstration of a Future Life, by Thomas Jay Hudson;
 * Divine Pedigree of Man, by Thomas Jay Hudson;
 * Law of Mental Medicine, by Thomas Jay Hudson;
 * Evolution of the Soul and Other Essays, by Thomas Jay Hudson;
 * Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume;
 * Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton;

I

 * Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving;

J

 * The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James;
 * Psychology of the Unconscious, by Carl Gustav Jung;

K

 * The Secret Commonwealth, by Robert Kirk;

L

 * The Natural History of Invertebrates, by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck;
 * Exposition de Systeme du Monde, by Pierre Simon Laplace;
 * Born Again, by Alfred A. Lawson;
 * Manlife, by Alfred A. Lawson;
 * Iridiagnosis and Other Diagnostic Methods, by Henry Lindlahr;
 * A True History, by Lucian;
 * Principles of Geology, by Charles Lyell;

M

 * Encyclopedia of Physical Culture, by Bernard Macfadden;
 * Anatome Plantorum, by Marcello Malfigi;
 * Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society, by Thomas Robert Malthus;
 * “Systolic Blood Pressure Symptoms of Deception,” by William Moulton Marston, Journal of Experimental Psychology 2 (1917);
 * Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions, by Cotton Mather;
 * Wonders of the Invisible World, by Cotton Mather;
 * Sentiments on the Small Pox Innoculated, by Cotton Mather;
 * An Account... of Inoculating the Small-Pox, by Cotton Mather;
 * Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres, by James McBride;
 * The Practical System of Graphology, by Jean Hippolyte Michon;
 * Modern Medicine and Bacteriological World;
 * Of the Origin and Progress of Language, by James Burnett Monboddo;
 * Crania Americana, by Samuel George Morton;
 * The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, by Margaret Murray;
 * Human Personality and Its Survival after Bodily Death, by F. W. H. Myers;

N

 * Principia, by Isaac Newton;
 * Prophecies, by Nostradamus;

O

 * The Menace of Spiritualism, by Elliott O'Donnell;

P

 * Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, by William Paley;
 * A View of the Evidences of Christendom, by William Paley;
 * Natural Theology, by William Paley;
 * Northward Over the 'Great Ice, by Robert Edwin Peary;
 * The North Pole, by Robert Edwin Peary;
 * Secrets of Polar Travel, by Robert Edwin Peary;
 * Revelations of a Spirit Medium, by Charles Pidgeon;
 * Critias, by Plato;
 * Timaeus, by Plato;
 * MS. Found in a Bottle, by Edgar Allan Poe;
 * The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, by Edgar Allan Poe;
 * A Tale of the Ragged Mountain, by Edgar Allan Poe;
 * The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaal, by Edgar Allan Poe;
 * Princess Mary's Gift Book;
 * Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 10 (1894);
 * The Protocols of Zion (1923);
 * A Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, by George Psamanazar;
 * Almagest, by Ptolemy;

R

 * Antiquitatis Americanae, by Charles C. Rafn;
 * De Astronomicis Hypothesibus, by Nicholas Reimer;
 * Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena, by William E. Robinson;

S

 * A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits, by R. Nathaniel St. Andre;
 * Satyricon;
 * Ilios, by Friedrich Schliemann;
 * Preliminary Report of the Commission by University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism, by Seybert Commission;
 * Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, by Charles Piazzi Smyth;
 * Life and Work at the Great Pyramid, by Charles Piazzi Smyth;
 * On the Antiquity of Intellectual Man, by Charles Piazzi Smyth;
 * The Problem of Atlantis, by Lewis Spence;
 * An Encyclopedia of Occultism, by Lewis Spence;
 * Electricity and Magnetism, by S. G. Starling;
 * Atlantis and Lemuria, by Rudolph Steiner;
 * The Philosophy of Freedom, by Rudolph Steiner;
 * The Story of Atlantis (1914);
 * Stonehenge, a Temple Restored to the British Druids, by William Stukeley;
 * The Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres, by Americus Symmes;
 * Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery (1820);

T

 * The Edinburgh Lectures, by Thomas Troward;
 * A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain;

U

 * Annals of the Old Testament, by James Ussher;

V

 * The Waters Above the Firmament, by Isaac Newton Vail;
 * Five Weeks in a Balloon, by Jules Verne;
 * From the Earth to the Moon, by Jules Verne;
 * The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne;
 * A Voyage to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne;
 * Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation;
 * Aeneid, by Virgil;
 * Das Thierleben der Alpenwelt, by Friedrich von Tschudi;
 * Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot;

W

 * On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species, by Alfred Russel Wallace;
 * Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace;
 * Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection, by Alfred Russel Wallace;
 * Island Life, by Alfred Russel Wallace;
 * British Trackways, by Alfred Watkins;
 * The Old Straight Track, by Alfred Watkins;
 * The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, by John Webster;
 * Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane, by Alfred Lothar Wegener;
 * The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells;
 * The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells;
 * Account of the Racial Gradation in Man, by Charles White;
 * The New Theory of the Earth, by William Whiston;

Y

 * Yoga Sutra;

Z

 * Zohar;