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
Breslaw's Last legacy, or, The conjurer unmasked
Philip Breslaw
1803
Breslaw's last legacy, or, Conjuror's magic mirror
Philip Breslaw
1812
Breslaw's last legacy, or, The magical companion
Philip Breslaw
1784
Brown's small grammar improved
Goold Brown
1877
Building magic
Owen Davies, Ceri Houlbrook, ProQuest
2021
Card tricks and conjuring up to date
Hercat
1897
Carpenter's Scholar's spelling assistant
Thomas Carpenter
1858
Catalogue of conjuring apparatus
Yost & Company
1880
Catalogue, with prices, of conjuring apparatus, magical tricks, new and ingenious puzzles
Magical and Conjuring Repository
1872
Certaine rules, directions, or advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion
Francis Herring
1636
Chymical secrets, and rare experiments in physick & philosophy
Kenelm Digby
1683
Colonel Stodare's hand-book of magic, or, Conjuring made easy
Stodare Colonel
1862
Concrete investigation of the material of English spelling
Wallace Franklin Jones
1870
Conjurer Dick
Hoffmann Professor
1885
Conjuring & legerdemain
Harry Houdini
1877
Conjuring made easy for amateurs
Henri Duvale
1860
Conjuring tricks with coins, watches, rings, and handkerchiefs
Professor Hoffmann
1892
Conjuring, or, Magic made easy
Robert Nickle
1880
Conjuring, or, Magic made easy
Harry Houdini Collection
1880
Cramer's United States' spelling book
Sundry Experienced Teachers
1851
Curiositates inauditae, sive selectae observationes de variis superstitionibus veterum, Orientalium maxime, Judaeorum, Persarum &.
Jacques Gaffarel
1706
Daemonologie
King James VI and I, Richard Bradock, William Cotton, William Aspley, Robert S. Mainsforth
1603
Daemonologie, in forme of a dialogue
King James VI and I
1603
Davis' phono-romanic chart for schools and academies ..
Alexander H. Davis
1868