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
[Wyman's hand-book of magic]
John Wyman
1870
realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe
Edward Bever
2008
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Reginald Scott
Date unknown
"Magiekritik" in Hans Vintlers Lehrgedicht "Pluemen der tugent"
Andrea Schwingshackl
2006German
"Maleficos non patieris vivere" (Ex.22,18). Zauberei im Mittelalter
Eva Oberhuber
1999German
"Picatrix"
Abū-Maslama Muḥammad Ibn-Ibrāhīm al- Maǧrīṭī, Hellmut Ritter
1962German
"Sorcier" et "magicien"
Robert Léon Wagner
1939French
(Schau-Platz vieler ungereimter Meynungen und Erzählungen worauf die unter dem Titel der Magiae naturalis so hoch gepriesene Wissenschaften und Künste von dem Gestirn, den Geistern (etc.) vorgestellet, geprüfet und entdecket werden
Tharsander
1736German
Les "images astrologiques" en occident, des premisses de la notion (XIIe siècle) à l'Opus praeclarum de imaginibus astrologicis de Jérôme Torrella (1496 - vers 1500)
Nicolas Weill-Parot
1998French
À la recherche du temps perdu
Dominique Defer
1995French
"(Gott) schütze das Fleisch des Pharao"
Nicolas Flessa
2006German
"Al suon de' mormoranti carmi"
Tancredi Artico, Angelo Chiarelli
2019Italian
"Elemterefiş"
Nimet Elif Uluğ
2018
"Ich beswer dich wurm und wyrmin..."
Verena Holzmann
2001German
"Medicæa Medæa"
Luisa Capodieci
2011French
"Peering through the lattices"
Efrayim Ḳanarfogel
2000
"Wicked arts"
Per Sörlin
1999
(Alpha) and (Omega)
Johan 1707-1780praeses Ihre
1742Latin
100 effectvolle, leicht fassliche Zaubereien
S. Morelli
1890German
1999 cai shen tong sheng
Tong sheng tang you xian gong si
1998Chinese
A A a b c d e f ff g h i ...
George A. Plimpton
1722German
A B C-, Buchstabir- u. Lesebuch
Benjamin Eby
1871German
A B C-, Buchstabir- und Lesebuch
Johann Conrad Reissner
1848German
A büvészet könyve
Simon Tolnai
1898Hungarian