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
Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium
Gary Vikan
2024
Secrets of magical seals:
Anna Riva
1975
Sepher Raziel Also Known as Liber Salomonis, a 1564 English Grimoire from Sloane MS 3826
Stephen Skinner, Don Karr
2010
Sexual Practices Of The Druids
Jon G. Hughes
2013
Studies on Astral Magic in Medieval Jewish Thought
Dov Schwartz
2005
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information
Erik Davis
1998
That Certain Something
Arlene Francis
1960
The Book of Magical Talismans
Elbee Wright
1984
The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism
Glenn Alexander Magee, Charles W. Stein, Joscelyn Godwin, Jessica Elbert Decker, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Roelof van den Broek, Daphna Arbel, April D. DeConick, William C. Chittick, Brian Ogren, Bruce Milem, Anne L. Clark, Antoine Faivre, Peter J. Forshaw, Bruce T. Moran, Hereward Tilton, Jan A.M. Snoek, Jane Williams‐Hogan, Adam Crabtree, Cathy Gutierrez
2016
The Devil's Dominion
Richard Godbeer
1992
The Donkey King
Emily Selove
2023
The grimoire of Saint Cyprian : clavis inferni : sive magia alba et nigra approbata Metratona : the key of hell with white and black magic proven by Metatron, being Wellcome MS 2000
Stephen Skinner, David Rankine, Peter J. Forshaw, CYPRIAN
2009
The magic of fashion
Brian Moeran
2015
The modern herbal spellbook
Anna Riva
1974
The picatrix : the goal of the wise (in sorcery)
Pseudo-Maǧrīṭī, H. Ritter, Steven Ashe
2007
The sixth and seventh books of Moses, or, Moses' magical spirit-art
J. Scheible
1883
Theory of Everything
Michael Chodounsky
2026
Twentieth century magic and the construction of modern magical apparatus
Nevil Monroe Hopkins
1898
Utajená magie
Ruth Clydesdale
2011Czech
Wicca and the Christian heritage
Joanne Pearson
2007
Witchcraft and Welfare
Raquel Romberg
2003
Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester, Gareth Roberts
1996
Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Merry E. Wiesner
1999
Witchcraft in the Middle Ages
Jeffrey Burton Russell
1984