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
Universal spelling-book
Daniel Fenning
1756
Unlocked books
Benedek Láng
2008
Up to date book of wonders
John G. Scheidler
1895
Up to date conjuring
McManus-Young Collection
1870
Ventriloquism explained
Harry Houdini Collection
1834
Via ad vitam, being a short and sure vvay to a long life, or, Helmont justified, and the excellency of chymicall medicaments vindicated
George Starkey
1661
Vnheard-of curiosities
Jacques Gaffarel
1650
Waring's reportoire [sic], properties, etc
Andrew G. Waring
1885
Webster's dictionaries
Israel Ward Andrews, G. & C. Merriam
1856
Websterian orthography
William Frederick Poole
1857
Wehman's Black art, or, Magic made easy
Henry J. Wehman
1897
Wehman's New book of tricks and ventriloquist's guide
Wehman Bros
1889
Wehman's Parlor conjurer
Henry J. Wehman
1875
Wehman's Wizard's manual
W. E. Skinner
1895
What is mesmerism?
Frank Sitwell
1862
Whole art of conjuring, or, Hocus pocus
McManus-Young Collection
1850
Whole art of legerdemain
Henry Dean
1750
Will Goldston's magical scraps
Will Goldston
1858
Witchcraft
P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
2000
Witchcraft and magic in Europe
Karen Louise Jolly, Edward Peters, Catharina Raudvere
2002
Witchcraft and magic in Europe
Valerie Flint
1999
Witchcraft and magic in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe
Geoffrey Scarre
1987
Witchcraft, magic, and religion in 17th-century Massachusetts
Richard Weisman
1984
Witchcraft, or, the art of fortune-telling unveiled
William Frederick Pinchbeck
1805