Tradition 02 of 33
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 2,483
- Earliest
- 500 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 61%
- 1,520 with public full text
- With covers
- 73%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,133
- Metadata match478
- Query match870
- 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
- Magic516
- History232
- Social Sciences172
- Magie166
- Art147
- Arts and Humanities141
- Occultism135
- Fiction130
- Witchcraft127
- Philosophy124
- MAGIC (telescope)112
- Talismans107
- Juvenile fiction105
- Literature100
- Text81
- RELIGION72
- Early works to 180071
- Non-fiction literature70
- Astrology68
- Demonology68
- Fantasy fiction68
- Orthography and spelling67
- Fantasy63
- Archeology62
Top languages
- English1,044 · 42%
- German486 · 20%
- NOT309 · 12%
- Latin213 · 9%
- French112 · 5%
Notable authors
All authors- Wolfgang Hildebrand27 in this tradition30 books
- Giambattista della Porta25 in this tradition41 books
- Walter Scott21 in this tradition37 books
- James George Frazer18 in this tradition20 books
- L. Frank Baum16 in this tradition21 books
- Johannes Wier16 in this tradition18 books
- Kaspar Schott16 in this tradition17 books
- John John Rea Neill15 in this tradition17 books
- Levinus Lemnius14 in this tradition17 books
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim12 in this tradition22 books
- Scott Cunningham10 in this tradition16 books
- Jean Bodin10 in this tradition15 books
2,483 books
- Read free
The Sky Is Falling
Lester Del Rey
Date unknown
- Read free
The Slayer of Souls
Robert Robert William Chambers
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell
William Dana Orcutt, Gertrude Demain Hammond
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of Belgium
Isabel Anderson
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of Egypt
Robert Hichens
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of Flanders
Edward Neville Vose
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of Japan
Isabel Anderson
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of Switzerland
Nathan Haskell Dole
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines
Isabel Anderson
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of the Rockies
Enos A Mills
Date unknown
- Read free
The Talisman, from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin; With Other Pieces
George Borrow, Adam Mickiewicz, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Date unknown
- Read free
The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
Harry Houdini
Date unknown
- Read free
The White Feather Hex
Don Peterson
Date unknown
- Read free
The Witch's Head
H. Rider Haggard, Charles H. M Kerr
Date unknown
- Read free
The history of magic
Éliphas Lévi, Arthur Edward Waite
Date unknown
- Read free
The magic casket
R. Austin Freeman
Date unknown
- Read free
The magic lantern and its management
Thomas Cradock Hepworth
Date unknown
- Read free
The magic of jewels and charms
George Frederick Kunz
Date unknown
- Read free
The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe
Lynn Thorndike
Date unknown
- Read free
The secrets of stage conjuring
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Professor Hoffmann
Date unknown
- Read free
The spell of Scotland
Keith Clark
Date unknown
- Read free
The spell of the heart of France: the towns, villages and châteaux about Paris
André Hallays, Frank Roy Fraprie
Date unknown
- Read free
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
James Freake, Donald Tyson, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Eric Purdue
1531
- Read free
Through the Magic Door
Arthur Conan Doyle
Date unknown