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
Mysticism, magic and kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism
Karl Erich Grözinger, Joseph Dan, International Conference on the History of Jewish Mysticism
1995
Nangsư̄ hat phāsā
William J. Gedney
1899
Natural and artifial [sic] conclusions
Thomas Hill
1670
Natural magic, or, Physical amusements revealed
Philip Astley
1785
Natures explication and Helmont's vindication, or, A short and sure way to a long and sound life
George Starkey, Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont
1657
Natvrall and artificiall conclvsions
Thomas Hill
1649
Necromancy
H. L. Hastings
1893
Neuestes grosses Zauberkabinet und Kunstmagazin
Joh. Mich Wagner
1816
New American spelling book, or The child's easy introduction to spelling and reading the English tongue.
Isaiah Thomas
1785
New French pronouncing spelling-book, or, prosodical grammar
Anthelme Gay
1797
New and startling tricks
Glassel and Faust
1880
New expositor
Ashton of Liverpool
1833
New perspectives on witchcraft, magic, and demonology
Brian P Levack
2001
New, American spelling-book, improved
John Peirce
1795
News cuttings
Will Goldston
1853
Nineteenth annual report of the directors of the New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
1838
Observations on some documents relating to magic in the reign of Queen Elizabeth
W. H. Hart
1867
On common and "perfect" magic squares
F. Latoon
1895
On spelling
F. Max Müller
1880
Opera omnia medico-chemico-chirurgica
Paracelsus
1658
Opinion of the Supreme Court of the U. States, in the case of Alexander Murray and others, v. the schooner Charming Betsy
United States. Supreme Court
1800
Orthography and reading
Richard B. Marsh
1882
Orthography become phonography
James P. Hart
1845
Orthography corrected
Samuel Boyle
1816