Tradition 02 of 33
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
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- Books
- 5,190
- Earliest
- 500 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 48%
- 2,504 with public full text
- With covers
- 57%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match2,962
- Metadata match478
- Query match1,748
- 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
- Magic1.2K
- Orthography and spelling829
- Magic tricks538
- Early works to 1800533
- English language397
- History330
- occultism283
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric270
- Witchcraft262
- Juvenile fiction204
- Magie189
- Fiction177
- Social Sciences172
- Handbooks, manuals171
- Alchemy157
- Charms157
- Art151
- Talismans144
- Arts and Humanities141
- Philosophy138
- Demonology130
- Amulets128
- Spellers127
- Medicine120
Top languages
- English2,329 · 45%
- German862 · 17%
- French473 · 9%
- Latin444 · 9%
- NOT308 · 6%
Notable authors
All authors- Giambattista della Porta32 in this tradition89 books
- Wolfgang Hildebrand29 in this tradition32 books
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim25 in this tradition46 books
- Henri Decremps25 books
- Paracelsus23 in this tradition292 books
- Albertus Magnus23 in this tradition45 books
- Johann Weyer23 in this tradition24 books
- Walter Scott22 in this tradition42 books
- Levinus Lemnius20 in this tradition35 books
- James George Frazer18 in this tradition19 books
- L. Frank Baum17 in this tradition21 books
- Hobbies Ltd17 books
5,190 books
Magic Lost, Trouble Found
Lisa Shearin
2007
Magic when you need it
Judika Illes
2008
Magic, white and black; or, The science of finite and infinite life
Franz Hartmann
1886
Magical fabric art
Sandra McCraw Scarpa
1998
Magical jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, particularly in England
Joan Evans
1922
Magicka Formularia
Sandra Cheryl Richardson
2006
Magpie and the Wardrobe
Sam Mckechnie
2015
Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway
Ane Ohrvik
2018
Merlyn's Magick
Joshua Free
2005
Miss Buncle's book
D. E. Stevenson
1934
Modern magick
Donald Michael Kraig
1988
My lord eternity
Alexandra Ivy
2013
My lord vampire
Alexandra Ivy
2012
- Read free
New fairy stories for my grandchildren
Johann Georg Keil
1861
Night of the claw
Ramsey Campbell
1983
Novels (Black House / Talisman)
Stephen King, Peter Straub
2002
Numerology magic
Richard Webster
1998
- Read free
Odysseus, the hero of Ithaca
Όμηρος
1898
Old Norse folklore
Stephen A. Mitchell
2025
Origins of the witches' sabbath
Michael David Bailey
2021
Painless spelling
Mary Elizabeth
2011
Pandemonium
Jake Stratton-Kent
2016
Papal Magic
Simon
2007
Power spellcraft for life
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
2005