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Folklore and Survivals
Classical survivals in later folklore: Roman, Etruscan, Greek, and Mediterranean religious remnants as recorded in modern tradition.
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Texts
Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition — Charles Godfrey LelandA field study of Tuscan folk magic and its connections to ancient Etruscan and Roman pagan religion, by the author of Aradia.Greek and Roman Ghost Stories — Lacy Collison-MorleyLacy Collison-Morley’s 1912 study of the ghost stories of Greek and Latin literature, from the haunted house of Pliny’s letter and Phlegon’s Philinnion to necromancy, the oracles of the dead, dreams of the dead and the apparition that visited Brutus before Philippi, with the ancient sources cited in 112 notes.