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 professional wizard's guide to the selection and purchase of magical and conjuring tricks, from simple conjuring to grand magic, and illustrated descriptive catalogue of mechanical apparatus ..
W. J. Judd
1879
The progressive fifth, or, Elocutionary reader
Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook
1856
The progressive second reader
Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook
1856
The ritual magic workbook
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1986
The scholar's companion
Richard W. Green
1836
The secrets of advanced prestidigitation
Will Lockhart
1894
The secrets of conjuring and magic, or
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
1878
The secrets of mahatma land explained
Samri S. Baldwin
1895
The speller and definer; or, Class book no. 2.
Edward Hazen
1829
The spelling of some medical words
George M. Gould
1893
The spelling reform question discussed
E. H. Watson
1880
The spelling-book superseded, or
Robert Sullivan
1882
The spelling-book superseded, or, A new and easy mode of teaching the spelling, meaning, pronunciation and etymology of all the difficult words in the English language
Robert Sullivan
1853
The student's blue book
W. H. Unger
1875
The sword of Moses
Moses Gaster
1896
The teacher
Noah Webster
1837
The three sons-in-law
Johann Karl August Musäus
1861
The tomb of Semiramis hermetically sealed
H. V. D
1684
The tree house TV show word book
Edward F. Rooney
1876
The true history of the ghost, and all about metempsychosis
John Henry Pepper
1890
The tutor to true English: or, brief and plain directions, whereby all that can read and write may attain to orthography, (or the exact writing of English) as readily as if bred scholars
Henry Care
1687
The universal conjuror, or, The whole art of legerdemain
Harry Houdini Collection
1824
The universal spelling-book improved
Daniel Fenning
1799
The universal spelling-book; or, A new and easy guide to the English language
Daniel Fenning, Slingsby Bethell, Henry Dell
1773