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
You shall be as gods
Dennis Santos Villegas
2017
"...damit sie nach dem Gesetz gebessert und gezüchtigt werden..."
Theresa Bayer
2026German
"Daß sy der Rit schütt"
Peter Klammer
2014German
"Fantasima, fantasima che di notte vai"
Marina Montesano
2000Italian
"Herr, nimm du die Warzen mit!"
Matthias Badura
2004German
"Magies"
Musée Dapper
1996French
"Pharmakeía und crimen magiae"
Michaela Rücker
2014German
(Un)heile Körper im altnordischen Baldermythos
Irina Kößlinger
2023German
1, 2, 3 - Zauberei
Karin Ammerer, Antje Bohnstedt
2007German
Abwehrzauber und Behexung
Daniel Schwemer
2007German
Artes maleficorum
María Jesús Zamora Calvo
2016Spanish
Das Abenteuer beginnt
Andreas Suchanek, Timo Grubing
2020German
Discorso del reuerendo m. Francesco de Cattani da Diacceto ... sopra la superstizzione dell'arte magica
Francesco Cattani da Diacceto
1567Italian
El "De secretis mulierum" atribuido a Alberto Magno
Albert le Grand, José Pablo Barragán Nieto, Albertus
2012Latin
L'aventure spirituelle des sociétés initiatiques
Jean-Luc Caradeau
2001French
La adivinación en los papiros mágicos griegos
Alejandro García Molinos
2017Ancient Greek
Sex quaestiones contra paganos expositae (EP. 102)
Aurelius Augustinus, Florian Wekenmann
2025German
›De arte magorum‹
Matthias Reif, Christiane Reitz
2016German
(The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. 3. Ed.)
James-George Frazer
1911
1001 Amulett
Christian Herrmann, Thomas Staubli, Simone Berger-Lober, Othmar Keel, Georg Schönbächler
2010German
2000 عمل و حرز و دعاء من مجربات العلماء
Muḥammad Taqī Sajjādī
2014Arabic
A history of magic and experimental science during the first thirteen centuries of our era. 2. printing with corrections
Lynn Thorndike
1929
Anting-anting
Nenita D. Pambid
2000Tagalog
Antique Tibetan thogchags and seals
Dongguang Lin
2003