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
How to amuse an evening party
Harry Houdini Collection
1869
How to become a conjurer
A. Anderson
1894
How to do second sight
Fred Jr Hunt
1898
How to do sleight of hand
A. Anderson
1894
How to do the black art
A. Anderson
1895
How to do tricks
Harry Houdini Collection
1894
How to give a conjuring entertainment
George P. Moon
1896
Humbug, or, An exposé of the operation of "a faculty hitherto unknown," by which "the mysterious lady" is enabled to perform apparent impossibilities
Yankee
1834
Håndbok for hekser
Susan Bowes
2001
Illustrated and descriptive catalogue of new and superior conjuring wonders
Martinka & Co
1885
Illustrated descriptive price-list of magical apparatus & illusions, Otto Maurer's Magical Bazaar
Otto Maurer's Magical Bazaar
1888
Illustrations and reflections on the story of Saul's consulting the witch of Endor
Joseph Lathrop
1806
Imagine you're a wizard!
Meg Clibbon
2001
Ingglish az she iz spelt
Fritz Federheld
1885
Ingleby's Whole art of legerdemain
Thomas Ingleby
1815
Instructions for right spelling, and plain directions for reading and writing true English
George Fox
1673
Instructions in conjuring and stage-magic
Harry Houdini Collection
1881
Isn't it wonderful?
Charles Bertram, Phil May
1899
Jewish Mysticism and Magic
Maureen Bloom
2007
Kabbalah, magic, and science
David B. Ruderman
1988
Kate Clarendon, or, Necromancy in the wilderness
Emerson Bennett
1848
Kouzelnické a čarodějnické procesy v českých zemích a ve střední Evropě
Petr Kreuz
2022Czech
La medicina popular peruana
Hermilio Valdizán
1835
Languages, objects, and the transmission of rituals
Sabina Crippa, Emanuele Marcello Ciampini
2017