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
The Conjurer's guide
McManus-Young Collection
1808
The English grammar, or, The institution of letters, syllables, and words in the English tongue
Charles Butler
1633
The English instructor or, The art of spelling improved
Henry Dixon
1736
The English language made perfectly phonetic by a simple system of diacritical notation
James W. Shearer
1872
The English orthographical expositor
Daniel Jaudon
1845
The English primrose
Richard school-master Hodges
1644
The English school-master
Edmund Coote
1596
The English spelling difficulty and its remedy, Glossic
Alexander John Ellis
1870
The English-school reformed
R. Brown, R. Foord
1715
The First confederate speller
Association of Southern Teachers
1861
The Gnostics and their remains ... [microform]
Charles William King
1864
The Great Chinese wizard's hand-book of magic
McManus-Young Collection
1875
The Hittite ritual of ḫantitaššu from the city of Ḫurma against troublesome years
Ahmet Ünal
1996
The Little child's speling [sic] book
Isaac Watts
1814
The Maine spelling book
Thomas M. Prentiss
1799
The Morse speller
Samuel Dutton
1896
The Ottauwa spelling book with some translations of scripture & hymns
Isaac Van Tassel, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
1830
The Pennsylvania spelling-book, or Youth's friendly instructor and monitor
Anthony Benezet
1776
The Saxon language-its eclipse and relumination
Nathan Brown
1867
The Secrets of ancient and modern magic, or, The art of conjuring unveilled [sic]
M. Young
1880
The Secrets of modern magic
McManus-Young Collection
1876
The Speling reformer ...
Eliza Boardman Burnz
1878
The Universal conjuror, or, The whole art of legerdemain as practised by the famous Breslaw, Katterfelto, Jonas, Flockton, Comas, and by the greatest adepts in London and Paris
McManus-Young Collection
1829
The Whole art of hocus pocus
McManus-Young Collection
1812