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
Professor Wiljalba Frikell's Lessons in magic
Wiljalba Frikell
1858
Profs. Conlon & Nash's trick and magic book, 1892-3
A. S. Conlon
1893
Programme, Dr. Lynn the wonder worker
H. S. Lynn
1870
Psychology of prestidigitation
Alfred Binet
1896
Punctuation with chapters on hyphenization
Francis Horace Teall
1898
Puzzledom, or, The secret of conjuring unveiled
Denisé
1890
Puzzles
Harry Houdini Collection
1890
Recollections of Robert-Houdin
William - undifferentiated Manning
1891
Record
Adrian Plate
1882
Reformed alphabet and orthography. Memorial of N. E. Dawson, of Burlington, Iowa, setting forth the plan of a reformed alphabet and orthography, and suggesting measures to extend a knowledge of it over the nation
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
1878
Remedies and rituals
Kathleen Stokker
2007
Reminissenses of scul life
Cornelius Wilson Larison
1896
Reminissensez ov scul lif
Cornelius Wilson Larison
1896
Report of the Committee appointed (January 6, 1888) by the American Philosophical Society to assist the Commission on Amended Orthografy
American Philosophical Society. Committee to Assist the Commission on Amended Orthography
1889
Report of the Committee on the subject of spelling books
American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
1843
Revised and improved edition of the eclectic second reader
William Holmes McGuffey
1841
Rhetoric, science, & magic in seventeenth-century England
Ryan Stark
2009
Ritual healing
Ildikó Csepregi, Charles Burnett
2012
Ritual, embodiment, and agency
Agnieszka Kedzierska-Manzon
2026
Ritual, myth and magic in early modern Europe
E. William Monter
1983
Rituals of perceptual presence
Andrea Franchetto
2024
Robert Heller, his doings
Robert Heller, Artemus Ward
1875
Round about our coal-fire: or, Christmas entertainments
ESTC/NA
1732
Routledge's handbook of conjuring
McManus-Young Collection
1867