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
Exposure of second sight mystery, parlor magic, and tricks with cards and dice
John Wyman
1883
Fireside amusements
George Millar
1850
Fireside amusements
Robert Chambers
1850
First book of English for children
Charles V. Kraitsir
1846
First book, or introduction to Cobb's spelling book
Lyman Cobb
1834
First phonetic reader
Benn Pitman
1855
Forty years' corresponence between geniusses ov boath sexes, and James Elphinston
James Elphinston
1791
Forty-seven lessons in orthography
W. W. Earnest
1896
Fourteen hundred test words in English orthography
N. P. Henderson
1865
Fragment of a Græco-Egyptian work upon magic
Charles Wycliffe Goodwin
1852
Frenolojikal development ov Ser Eizak Pitman, Knt
James Webb, British Phrenological Association
1896
Frier Bacon his discovery of the miracles of art, nature, and magick
Roger Bacon
1659
Furst f[o]netic r[ea]dur
Elias Longley
1852
Gaelic incantations, charms and blessings of the Hebrides; with translations, and parallel illustrations from Irish, Manx, Norse, and other superstitions
W. C. Mackenzie
1895
Gaelic incantations, charms, and blessings of theHebrides
William Secretary Mackenzie
1895CEL
Gale's Cabinet of knowledge, or, Miscellaneous recreations
John Gale
1808
Games of skill, and conjuring
Harry Houdini Collection
1862
Geirlyfr saesoneg a chymraeg
Thomas Edwards
1853
Gnostic presences in Ethiopia
Paolo Cartocci, Paul Metcalfe, Gianfrancesco Lusini
2024
Griffin's book of wonders
Charles Eldridge Griffin
1887
Griffin's wonder worker, or, Second book of conjuring
Charles Eldridge Griffin
1897
Guide to typography, literary and pratical
Henry Beadnell
1859
Guy's exercises in orthography
Joseph Guy
1824
Hand & finger tricks
Harry Houdini Collection
1885