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 universal syllabic gospel
R. Hunt
1873
The unlearned alchymist his antidote, Or a more full and ample explanation of the use, virtue and benefit of my pill. Entituled, An effectual diaphoretick, diuretick, purgeth by sweating urine
Richard Mathews
1663
The unlearned alchymist his antidote, or, A more full and ample explanation of the use, virtue and benefit of my pill, entituled, An effectual diaphoretick, diuretic, purgeth by sweating, urine
Richard Mathews
1662
The visions of Isobel Gowdie
Emma Wilby
2010
The vocal organ, or A new art of teaching the English orthographie
Owen Price
1665
The way to do magic illustrated
Harry Houdini Collection
1890
The whole art of legerdemain, or, Hocus pocus laid open and explained
Henry Dean
1833
The wizard's manual
W. E. Skinner
1892
The world turn'd upside down, or, A plain detection of errors, in the common or vulgar belief, relating to spirits, spectres or ghosts, dæmons, witches, &c
Balthasar Bekker
1700
The world's acraze for something new
Chas. L. Burlingame & Co
1895
The young child's accidence
Jonathan Grout
1799
The young ladies and gentlemen's spelling book
Caleb Alexander
1797
The young lady and gentleman's spelling book
Nathan T. Hilton
1807
Theory of magic squares and of magic cubes
Frederick A. P. Barnard
1888
Thesaurus astrologiae, or, An astrological treasury
John Gadbury
1674
Thirteenth annual report of the directors of the New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, to the legislature of the state of New-York, for the year 1831
New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
1832
Thos. W. Yost, manufacturer and dealer in every description of magical apparatus
Thos. W Yost
1880
To the friends of American literature
Friend to American Literature
1832
To the friends of literature / [Noah Webster]
Noah Webster
1839
Tricks in magic, illusions, and mental phenomena
Hardin J. Burlingame
1895
Twenty-first annual report of the directors of the New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, to the legislature of the state of New-York, for the year 1839
New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
1840
Twenty-five cents' worth of magic and mystery, or, Parlor magic for the amateur conjurer
J. H. Anderson
1860
Two common places taken out of Andreas Hyperius, a learned diuine, whereof, in the one, he sheweth the force that the sonne, moone and starres haue ouer men, &c. In the other, whether the deuils haue bene the shewers of magicall artes, &c. Translated into English by R.V
Andreas Hyperius
1581
Universal spelling
Daniel Fenning
1838