An illustration from The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Readers (1896).  The caption reads: "The king of the wind."

The wind god of Japan, from East and West by Edwin Arnold, 1896.

Here's a precursor to the "What would Jesus do?" meme, from Christian Herald and Signs of Our Times, 1895.  The song is entitled, "What will You do with Jesus?"

"You could dip this house in water": an ad in American Homes and Gardens, 1905.

"The mysterious idol killed him," from The Adventures of a Stowaway by Frederick Whishaw, 1897.

From Life in Brazil by Thomas Ewbank, 1856.

"Worshippers of the rising sun," from from The Foreign Freaks of Five Friends by C. A. Jones, 1882.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

[For HBG2 and the Disneyland Haunted Mansion pop-up ghosts.]

Divinities from Japan and Her People by Andrew Steinmetz, 1859.

"Chinese joss-house at San Francisco," from America Revisited by George Augustus Henry Fairfield, 1882.

"By some means, however, they got to the sky, / And found the Sun throned in his palace on high."  From Thoughts and Fancies by John Cotton, 1897.

"The big sky-man that makes the moons," from Red Apple and Silver Bells by Hamish Hendry and illustrated by Alice B. Woodward, 1899.

"Devil Posts": an illustration from Korean Sketches by James Scarth Gale (1898).

"As she did this a bright flash, blinding as lightning, shot through the chamber."  From The Eye of Istar by William Le Queux, 1897.

An illustration from The Star of the Sea by N. Gregor (1897).  The caption reads: "All the little images were smashed to pieces by the chief idol, which had never been known to have moved its hands."

"The Lady of the Weather": an illustration from The Marches of Wales by Charles George Harper (1894).