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Cornell Digital witchcraft archive- Cornell University Libraries put together a digital repository of a range of texts. Coverage spans the last several hundred years, though documents cannot be downloaded and the search interface is somewhat basic. Documents are scans of texts and, because most of them are no longer under copyright law, they can be found in various other places online as well

Wikisource - This can be hit or miss. It's a free online digital repository of all types of public domain texts.

Perseus -Tufts University created the Perseus Digital Library project as a collection of sources related to the humanities, primarily ancient Greek and Roman. The search interface is not intuitive but every single word in a given text is parsed,  multiple lexicons are housed on the project, and texts are available in both the original language and translations.
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Project Gutenberg - Similar to, though predating Wikisource by decades, Project Gutenberg is the original digital library of public domain eBooks. It is a community effort to digitize resources that are no longer in public domain and most texts are available for download in multiple formats. The focus in mainly on literature.


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