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
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Thesaurus gemmarum antiquarum astriferarum quae e compluribus dactyliothecis selectae aereis tabulis CC. insculptae observationibus inlustrantur adiectis parergis LX. Atlante Farnesiano prolegomenis. Diatribis III. Dissertationibus XV. et indicibus. Volumen I
Antonio Francesco Gori
1750Latin
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Thesaurus gemmarum antiquarum astriferarum quae e compluribus dactyliothecis selectae aereis tabulis CC. insculptae observationibus inlustrantur adiectis parergis LX. Atlante Farnesiano prolegomenis. Diatribis III. Dissertationibus XV. et indicibus. Volumen II
Antonio Francesco Gori
1750Latin
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Wet Magic
Edith Nesbit, Harold Robert Millar
1937
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[Kitāb-i ʻajāyib al-makhlūqāt va gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt]
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately
1546Persian
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[Talisman]
McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Arabic Calligraphy 199
1800Arabic
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[majmū'ah]
Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 131
1801Persian
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Unidentified Sinhalese charms ola
Producer not identified
1600Pali
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 05 of 12)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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Indoor games and recreations
William Gordon Stables, Gordon Stables
1888
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 04 of 12)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 09 of 12)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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The Buddhist Praying-Wheel
William Simpson
1896
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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The magic lantern
A Mere Phantom
1876
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Eulis! the history of love
Paschal Beverly Randolph
1874
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
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Yoga, or, Transformation [microform]
William Joseph Flagg
1898
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Arts and sciences
1777
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Beinecke MS 163, Wagstaff miscellany
1300
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Perpetual card
1688