Tradition 02 of 35
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
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- Books
- 6,161
- Earliest
- 500 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 57%
- 3,481 with public full text
- With covers
- 62%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match3,232
- Metadata match480
- Query match2,447
- Source classification (retained through merging)2
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Magic1.3K
- Orthography and spelling830
- Early works to 1800568
- Magic tricks557
- English language397
- History353
- occultism308
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric284
- Witchcraft280
- Juvenile fiction233
- Fiction205
- Magie191
- Social Sciences174
- Handbooks, manuals171
- Alchemy164
- Charms162
- Art152
- Talismans146
- Arts and Humanities143
- Demonology142
- Philosophy140
- Amulets129
- Spellers127
- Medicine126
Top languages
- English2,359 · 38%
- German1,372 · 22%
- NOT563 · 9%
- French516 · 8%
- Latin449 · 7%
Notable authors
All authors- Giambattista della Porta32 in this tradition90 books
- Wolfgang Hildebrand29 in this tradition32 books
- Henri Decremps29 books
- Albertus Magnus28 in this tradition53 books
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim28 in this tradition49 books
- Johann Nicolaus Martius27 books
- Paracelsus24 in this tradition294 books
- Johann Weyer24 in this tradition25 books
- Walter Scott22 in this tradition52 books
- Johann Samuel Halle21 books
- Levinus Lemnius19 in this tradition34 books
- James George Frazer18 in this tradition33 books
6,161 books
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The long lost friend
Johann Georg Hohman
1820
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The Golden Bough
James George Frazer, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, William Nicholson
1804
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Elizabethan demonology
Thomas Alfred Spalding
1880
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Letters on demonology and witchcraft
Walter Scott, Henry Morley, George Cruikshank, James Ballantyne and Co. bkp CU-BANC
1830
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Lights and shadows of spiritualism
Daniel Dunglas Home
1877
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Mystic London; or, Phases of occult life in the Metropolis
Charles Maurice Davies
1875
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Studies in psychical research
Frank Podmore, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1897
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The devil in Britain and America
John Ashton
1896
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The secret teachings of all ages
Manly Palmer Hall, J. Augustus Knapp
1928
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Witch, warlock, and magician
W. H. Davenport Adams
1889
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Occult science in medicine
Franz Hartmann
1893
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La sorcière
Jules Michelet, John Davis Batchelder Collection DLC, Lionel Lionel James n 79077380 Trotter, Lionel Lionel James Trotter
1862French
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The magus, or celestial intelligencer; being a complete system of occult philosophy. In three books: containing the antient and modern practice of the cabalistic art, natural and celestial magic, &c. ...
Francis Barrett, Francis. n 87131016 Barrett, Johannes Trithemius, Francis F.R.C. Barrett, University of Glasgow. Library
1801
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A collection of rare and curious tracts on witchcraft and the second sight
David of Edinburgh Webster, David Webster, David. comp Webster
1820
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Ancient Divination and Experience
Lindsay Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Lindsay Gayle Driediger-Murphy
2019
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Thaumaturgia, or elucidations of the marvellous
Oxonian, Oxonian. n 88620357, An Oxonian
1835
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The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist John Rudolph Glauber
Johann Rudolf Glauber, Christopher Packe
1689
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Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652
Alison Rowlands
2003
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Teutonic mythology
Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass, Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm], Wilhelm Grimm, Elard Hugo Meyer
1835German
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De la démonomanie des sorciers
Jean Bodin, Arnout Coninx, Jacques Du Puys
1580French
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Gypsy sorcery and fortune telling
Charles Godfrey Leland, University of Leeds. Library
1891
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Magic of the Middle Ages
Viktor Rydberg, August Hjalmar Edgren
1879
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Spirit slate writing and kindred phenomena
Chung Ling Soo, William E Robinson, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1898
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The folklore of China, and its affinities with that of the Aryan and Semitic races
Nicholas Belfield Dennys, By Nicholas Belfield Dennys, Nicholas Belfield. [from old catalog] Dennys
1876