📚 Superstition

Books with superstition on their catalogue record, first published between 1650 and 2010, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject superstition in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,564 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Golden Bough	James George Frazer	1890	374
	Deutsche mythologie	Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]	1835	37
	Psyche's task	James George Frazer	1909	17
	Amulets and superstitions	E. A. Wallis Budge	1930	15
	Satanism and witchcraft	Jules Michelet	1939	15
	Miscellanies upon Various Subjects	John Aubrey	1784	14
	The evil eye	Frederick Thomas Elworthy	1895	13
	The Magic of the Horse-Shoe	Robert Means Lawrence	2010	13
	The darker superstitions of Scotland	Dalyell, John Graham Sir	1834	12
	Golden Bough	James Frazer	1890	12
	Handwo rterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens	Bächtold-Stäubli, Hanns	1927	12
	Pseudodoxia epidemica	Thomas Browne	1650	11
	A book of folk-lore	Sabine Baring-Gould	1970	11
	Bygone Beliefs	H. Stanley Redgrove	1920	10
	Believing in magic	Stuart A. Vyse	1997	10
	Miscellanies upon Various Subjects	John Aubrey	2007	10
	Encyclopaedia of superstitions	Edwin Radford	1948	9
	Etruscan Roman remains in popular tradition	Charles Godfrey Leland	1892	8
	The origins of popular superstitions and customs	T. Sharper Knowlson	1930	8
	Folk-lore from Adams county, Illinois	Harry Middleton Hyatt	1935	8
	Popular romances of the west of England	Robert Hunt	1865	7
	Strange survivals	Sabine Baring-Gould	1892	7
	Omens and superstitions of southern India	Edgar Thurston	1912	7
	Cross your fingers, spit in your hat	Alvin Schwartz	1974	7
	A Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions	Philippa Waring	1978	7
	Satan's invisible world discovered	Sinclair, George	1769	6
	The state of prisons and of child-saving institutions in the civilized world	E. C. Wines	1879	6
	The supernatural	King, John H.	1892	6
	Superstitions of the highlands & islands of Scotland	Campbell, John Gregorson	1900	6
	Highland superstitions	Alexander Macgregor	1901	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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