Tradition 02 of 33
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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
De lamiis, das ist, von Teuffelsgespenst, Zauberern vnd Gifftbereytern
Johann Weyer
1586German
De lapide animali
Johann Rudolf Glauber
1669German
De le lettere
Claudio Tolomei
1547Italian
De locis Aegytiacis in operibus Platonicis
Paulus Neuman
1874Latin
De magia dissertatio theologico-physica
Anton de Haen
1777Latin
De magia naturali ejusque usu medico
Johann Nikolaus Martius
1715Latin
De magicis artibus et magorum maleficiis
Bernardo Basin, Louis Martineau, John Bellingham Inglis, Henry Huth
1483Latin
De microcosmo
Basilius Valentinus
1609Latin
De miraculis occultis naturae, libri IIII
Levinus Lemnius
1574Latin
De nieuwe Nederduitse spel-konst op de kortste en gemakkelykste wyze voorgestelt mitsgaders de lees- en schryf-konst
B. Hakvoord
1735Dutch
De occulta magico-magnetica morborum quorundam curatione naturali, tractatus, das ist, Wie man auff verborgene natürliche Weise ... vielerley Kranckheiten ..
Martin Schmuck
1652Latin
De occultis naturae miraculis, libri IIII
Levinus Lemnius
1574Latin
De occvlta philosophia libri III
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Johannes Trithemius
1567Latin
De orthographia linguae hebraeae
Claës Samuel Rodehn, Matthias Norberg
1806Latin
De orthographiae Hebraeorum indagandae via ac ratione
Johann Gottfried Hasse
1787Latin
De praestigiis daemonum
Johann Weyer
1586German
De praestigiis daemonum, & incantationibus ac veneficiis libri sex
Johann Weyer, Johann von Ewich, Boudewijn Ronsse, Theodor Zwinger
1577Latin
De praestigiis daemonum, et incantationibus ac veneficiis
Johann Weyer
1564Latin
De praestigiis daemonum, et incantationibus, ac veneficiis, libri sex, aucti & recogniti
Johann Weyer, Balduinus Ronsseus, Johann von Ewich, George Buchanan
1568Latin
De praestigiis. Von den Teuffeln, Zaubren, Schwartz-Künstlern, Teuffels Beschweren, Hexen oder Vnholden vnd Gifftbereitern
Johann Weyer, Johann Fueglin, Ernst Seckendorf
1575German
De re metallica, hoc est, De origine, varietate, & natura corporum metallicorum, lapidum, gemmarum, atq[ue] aliarum, quae ex fodinis eruuntur, rerum, ad medicinae usum deseruientium, libri III
Christoph Entzelt
1551Latin
De recta & emendata linguae anglicae scriptione, dialogus ...
Thomas Sir Smith
1569Latin
De recta & emendata linguæ Anglicæ scriptione, dialogus
Thomas Smith
1568Latin
De secretis libri XVII
Johann Jacob Wecker, Daniel B. Fearing, Daniel B. Fearing Collection of Fish and Fishing
1587Latin