Selected Works
- Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogenies, and Other Pieces (1935)
- The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion (1933–36)
- Condorcet on the Progress of the Human Mind (1933)
- Garnered Sheaves (1931)
- The Growth of Plato's Ideal Theory (1930)
- Myths of the Origin of Fire (1930)
- Fasti, by Ovid (text, translation and commentary), 5 volumes (1929)
- one-volume abridgement (1931)
- revised by G. P. Goold (1989, corr. 1996): ISBN 0-674-99279-2
- one-volume abridgement (1931)
- Devil's Advocate (1928)
- Man, God, and Immortality (1927)
- The Gorgon's Head and other Literary Pieces (1927)
- The Worship of Nature (1926) (from 1923–25 Gifford Lectures,)
- The Library, by Apollodorus (text, translation and notes), 2 volumes (1921): ISBN 0-674-99135-4 (vol. 1); ISBN 0-674-99136-2 (vol. 2)
- Folk-lore in the Old Testament (1918)
- The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, 3 volumes (1913–24)
- The Golden Bough, 3rd edition: 12 volumes (1906–15; 1936)
- 1922 one-volume abridgement: ISBN 0-486-42492-8
- Totemism and Exogamy (1910)
- Psyche's Task (1909)
- The Golden Bough, 2nd edition: expanded to 6 volumes (1900)
- Pausanias, and other Greek sketches (1900)
- Description of Greece, by Pausanias (translation and commentary) (1897-) 6 volumes.
- The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion, 1st edition (1890)
- Totemism (1887)
- Jan Harold Brunvard, American Folklore; An Encyclopedia, s.v. "Superstition" (p 692-697)
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