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
Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena. Remarkable delusions, or, Illustrations of popular errors
Religious Tract Society
1848
Magic, ventriloquism, Punch & Judy explained
Pidgeon Prof
1886
Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Greek and Roman worlds
Daniel Ogden
2002
Magie blanche dévoilée
Henri Decremps
1785
Magika hiera
Christopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink
1991
Magische Frauen
Corinna Otto, Martin Rudolf Brenninkmeijer, Birte Hinrichsen, Caitlin R. Bass, Thea Wieteler, Karen Williams
2026
Magische Häschen - Schokosüße Abenteuer
Sue Bentley, Angela Swan, Katharina Jürgens
2026
Manson's blanks for written spelling
Alfred S. Manson
1885
Manual descriptive of a collection of talismans engraved on stones and metals of various countries and epochs, illustrative of what man has worn for his protection from accident and disease
Maxwell Sommerville, University of Pennsylvania. Department of Archaeology
1889
Manual of English pronunciation and spelling
Richard Soule
1861
Manual, analytical and synthetical, of orthography and definition
James N. McElligott
1846
Max Müller on spelling ...
F. Max Müller
1894
Medicina magnetica, or, The rare and wonderful art of curing by sympathy
Christopher Irvine
1656
Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London
Lauren Kassell
2005
Mental and magical mysteries
McManus-Young Collection
1893
Miss Kingsland's parlor magic
Kingsland Miss
1882
Modern magic
Hoffmann Professor
1877
Moderne Hexenkunst für Dummies®
Lorraine Monteagut, Wicca Meier-Spring
2026
More magic
Hoffmann Professor
1890
More than sixty conjuring tricks for the amateur conjurer
McManus-Young Collection
1880
Most plain directions for true-writing
Richard School-Master Hodges
1653
Mrs. Brown on spelling bees
Arthur Sketchley
1876
Murray's spelling book
Lindley Murray
1819
Mystical novelties up to date
Bertino Prof
1895