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
- 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 treatise on magic, or, On the intercourse between spirits and men
Frederick H. Quitman
1810
A treatise on stenography
International Correspondence Schools
1899
Accidental magic
P. C. Cast
2012
Across the great barrier
Patricia C. Wrede
2012
Address
Emma Hardinge Britten
1865
Address delivered at Washington Hall
Samuel Akerly
1826
Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes
John Browne
1684
Advance sheets from German Orthography and phonology
George Hempl
1899
Adversus fallaces et superstitiosas artes
Benedictus Pererius
1591
Albertus Magnus
Albertus Magnus
1800
Album
Adrian Plate
1893
Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus
Paul Weston
2009
All about horse brasses
Hubert S. Richards
1942
Alphabetic law is the one thing needed in literature, as distinguished from language
Matthew Monroe Campbell
1889
Amulets and talismans / by Sir E.A. Wallis Budge
E. A. Wallis Budge
1970
Amulets in magical practice
Jay Johnston, Cambridge University Press
2024
Amusing sleight of hand
Harry Houdini Collection
1894
An English spelling-book with reading lessons adapted to the capacities of children
Lindley Murray
1834
An abridgement of Murray's English grammar
Samuel Putnam
1828
An account of the trial of the letter [Upsilon] alias Y.
Thomas Edwards
1753
An analysis of Malay magic
Kirk Michael Endicott
1970
An analysis of derivative words in the English language; or
Salem Town
1887
An attempt to elucidate the principles of Malayan orthography. By W. Robinson
William Robinson
1823
An easy method of spelling the English language
Joseph Medill
1867