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
Among the healers
Edith Turner, Edith L. B. Turner
2006
Ancient Christian magic
Marvin Meyer, Marvin W Meyer, Richard Smith
1999
Astrology, magic, and alchemy in art
Matilde Battistini, Matilde. Astrologia Battistini, J. Paul Getty Museum
2007
Babylonian magic and Sorcery being "The prayers of the lifting of the hand". The cuneiform texts of a group of Babylonian and Assyrian incantations and magical formulae edited with transliterations, translations and full vocabulary from tablets of the Kuyunjik collections preserved in the British Museum
Leonard William King
1896Akkadian
Conjuring hope
Galina Lindquist
2006
Conjuring spirits
Claire Fanger
1998
Das große Buch der Magie und des Okkulten
Susanne Caesar
2026
Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world
James H. Sweet, Domingos Álvares
2011
Encyclopedia of the unexplained
Richard Cavendish, J.B Rhine
1974
Grüne Magie - eine illustrierte Reise
Arin Murphy-Hiscock, Sara Richard, Katja Theiß
2026
Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages
Charles Burnett
1996
Magic and ritual in the ancient world
Paul Mirecki, Marvin Meyer
1995
Mediators of the divine
Robert M Berchman
1998
Parapsychology, science or magic?
James Alcock, James E Alcock
1981
The Witchcraft Reader
Darren Oldridge
2008
The devil's doctor
Philip Ball
2006
Witchcraft and magic in Europe
Bengt Ankarloo, Stuart Clark, E. William Monter, Brian P Levack, Roy Porter
1999
Witchcraft and magic in Europe
Willem de Blécourt, Ronald Hutton, Jean La Fontaine, J.S La Fontaine, Stuart Clark, Bengt Ankarloo
1999
A handbook of phonetics including a popular exposition of the principles of spelling reform
Henry Sweet
1877
A system of magick
Daniel Defoe
1726
Amulet obsession
Barbara Elbe
1998
Amulets and Magic
Budge
2013
Amulets par M. G. A. Reisner
George Andrew Reisner
2008
Bewitching jewelry
Carl H. Giles
1976