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
A collection out of the best approved authors
John Gaule
1657
A complete and comprehensive spelling-dictionary of the English language
Samuel Hammond
1760
A critical investigation of the versification and prosodial usages of the Iliad and Odyssey
Henry W Williams
1828
A critical review of Noah Webster's spelling-book
Lyman Cobb
1828
A few of Robinson's new ideas
Chung Ling Soo
1898
A first book for children
Lindley Murray, Perkins & Co Collins
1805
A free and impartial enquiry into the antiquity and efficacy of touching for the cure of the King's evil
William Beckett
1722
A general introduction to trade and business, or, The young merchant's and tradesman's magazine
William Markham
1738
A grammar of the English language
John S. Hart
1864
A grammatical institute, of the English language
Noah Webster
1783
A guide to the English tongue ...
Thomas Dyche
1795
A guide to the English tongue in two parts ...
Thomas Dyche
1788
A handbook of phonetics
Henry Sweet
1877
A history of magic, witchcraft & the occult
Suzannah Lipscomb
2020
A juvenile reader
Elizabeth Hoxie
1871
A key to one of the main difficulties of English orthography
Henry Beadnell
1867
A key to the new system of orthography
Abner Kneeland
1827
A late discourse made in a solemne assembly of nobles and learned men at Montpellier
Kenelm Digby, R. Gent White
1658
A lecture on the best mode of preparing and using spelling-books
Horace Mann
1841
A letter by Mār Jacob, bishop of Edessa, on Syriac orthography
Jacob of Edessa
1869
A manual of orthography and elementary sounds
Henry R. Pattengill
1888
A manual of useful studies
Noah Webster
1839
A new English grammar conformed to present usage
Alfred Holbrook
1889
A new art of making wines, brandy, and other spirits, compliant to the late act of Parliament, concerning distillaton
W. Y-Worth
1691