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
Leigh's McGuffey's new eclectic primer
William Holmes McGuffey
1868
Leigh's McGuffey's new primary reader
William Holmes McGuffey
1868
Les coupes magiques et l'hydromancie dans l'antiquité orientale
Moïse Schwab
1890
Letters to the Rev. Frederick H. Quitman
Robert Scott
1810
Libellus orthographicus: or, The diligent school-boy's directory
Thomas Hunt
1661
Life and adventures of Signor Blitz
Antonio Blitz
1872
Life of Robert Houdin
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
1859
List of amended spellings
Francis Andrew March
1886
List of new words by lessons of the primer and McGuffey readers
Scott. H Blewett
1886
Magia adamica: or The antiquity of magic, and the descent thereof from Adam downwards, proved
Thomas Vaughan
1656
Magic
Harry Houdini Collection
1883
Magic and its mysteries
W. H. J. Shaw
1893
Magic and its mysteries
J. Dazley Theobald
1881
Magic and mystery unveiled
Henry Llewellyn Williams
1883
Magic and ritual in Tibet
Stephan Beyer
1988
Magic and the power of the goddess
Gareth Knight
2008
Magic as a political crime in medieval and early modern England
Francis Young
2020
Magic at home
Hoffmann Professor
1891
Magic in rituals and rituals in magic
SIEF Working Group on the Ritual year
2015
Magic no mystery
Wiljalba Frikell
1876
Magic, body and social order
Laura Stark
1998
Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena
1855
Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena
Thomas O. Summers
1857
Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena
Daniel P. Kidder
1848