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
Pharmacopoea spagyrica
Johann Rudolf Glauber
1654Latin
Philosophiae et medicinae utriusque universae
Paracelsus, J. G. P
1567Latin
Philosophiae magnae
Paracelsus
1567German
Physique amusante
Étienne Desjardins
1887French
Polnyĭ slovarʹ bukvy i︠e︡ [i.e."i︠a︡tʹ"]
I. K. Gan
1894Russian
Practische Anleitung zur Bildung und Berechnung magischer und sogenannter Zauber-quadrate
Gustav Hohndell
1837German
Prakticheskoe rukovodstvo dli︠a︡ pravilʹnago i vi︠e︡rnago upotreblenīi︠a︡ bukvy I︠E︡
P Smirnov
1880Russian
Pravopis český a zvukoslovím objasněná a skrácená mluvnice
Jan Mašek
1863Czech
Prawopis český podlé základu gramatyky Dobrowského
Václav Hanka, Josef Dobrovský
1817Czech
Prestidigitation moderne
L. P
1877French
Principes de l'orthographe françoise, ou, Reflexions utiles a toutes les personnes qui aiment à écrire correctement
Louis Pierre de Longue
1725French
Programm zur Zauberkasten-Serie "Stabil"
Harry Houdini Collection
1880German
Projet pour perfectioner l'ortografe des langues d'Europe
Charles Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre
1730French
Prononciation & orthographe de la langue française a certaines époques, avant le dix-neuvième siècle
France) Sauve (Gard
1890French
Prontuario de ortografía castellana en preguntas y respuestas
Academia Española
1898Spanish
Prontuario orthologi-graphico trilingue
Pedro Martyr Anglés
1742Spanish
Protest gegen die neue Reichs-Orthographie aus Anlass der "Geschichte und Gesetze der Deutschen Rechtschreibung von H. von Wolzogen"
O. Q
1880German
Quadriga dispp. magico-theurgicarum de conciliatione spiritum ..
David Richter
1716Latin
Quaestionum grammaticarum capita duo
Arthur John Brock
1897Latin
Qualitates occultae coelitus ducunt originem. ; Magia non transsubstantjat [sic]
University of Cambridge
1607Latin
Rainbow
Laura Ellen Anderson
2021Italian
Ranzen Rocco - Magie im Gepäck
THiLO, Sarah Tabea Hinrichs
2026German
Raphael, oder, Artzt-Engel
Abraham von Franckenberg
1676German
Razskazy o temnykh predmetakh, o volshebstvi͡e︡, naturalʹnoĭ magīi, obmanakh chuvstv, suevi͡e︡rīi͡a︡kh, fokusnichestvi͡e︡, koldunakh, vedʹmakh i t.p
Matveĭ Stepanovich Khotinskīĭ
1861Russian