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
Wonderful magical tricks, or, Hocus pocus
Henry Dean
1873
Word lessons for intermediate and grammar grades
Alonzo Reed
1899
[An Epitome of English orthography; or, The art of writing true and right English words, &c.]
Bartholomew Green
1697
[Catalogs and advertising.]
Harry Houdini
1880
[Miscellany]
Harry Houdini
1848
[Pharmako-basanos]: or, The touch-stone of medicines
John Sir Floyer
1687
[Scrapbook of magic tricks, "Hindoo" magic, juggling]
Harry Houdini
1804
[Scrapbook of magic tricks]
Adrian Plate
1888
[Scrapbook on handcuff tricks, ventriloquism, and shadow pictures]
Ellis Stanyon
1863
[Scrapbook on hypnotism, Walford Bodie's stage cures, spiritualism, magic tricks, juggling, and Houdini's escapes]
Ellis Stanyon
1866
[Scrapbook on magic tricks, magicians, and spiritualism]
Ellis Stanyon
1879
[Scrapbook on magic, magicians, and jugglers]
Ellis Stanyon
1885
[Scrapbook on magic, magicians, and spiritualism]
Ellis Stanyon
1897
[Scrapbook on magic, magicians, gambling, spiritualism and vaudeville]
Joseph Dunninger
1867
[Scrapbook on magic, magicians, spiritualism, and hypnotism]
S. Willson Bailey
1888
[Scrapbook on magic, mind-reading, and vaudeville]
Joseph Dunninger
1893
[Scrapbook on magicians, magic tricks, and spiritualism]
Charles J. Hagen
1891
[Scrapbook on parapsychology, Archdeacon Thomas Colley's libel case against John M. Maskelyne, magic tricks, and magicians]
Ellis Stanyon
1895
[Scrapbooks and newspaper clippings in the George Fabyan Collection at the Library of Congress]
George Fabyan
1848
[The Deseret first book, by the regents of the Deseret university
University of Utah
1868
[The Deseret second book
University of Utah
1868
[The Whole art of legerdemain, or, Hocus pocus laid open and explained ...]
McManus-Young Collection
1830
[The first step to learning: or, Little children's spelling and reading book
Abner Reed, Matthew Harrison, Stephen Fenn
1800
[The phonotypic instructor
Alexander John Ellis
1846