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
W kręgu mitu, magii i rytuaĺu
Dorota Siwor
2002Polish
W. Séwels Aanmerkingen op het boekje, genaamd De spelling van A. Moonen
William Sewel
1708Dutch
Waarom onaannemelijk
Cornelis Herman den Hertog
1893Dutch
Waji shōran shō
Keichū
1739Japanese
Weisse Magie für Frauen
Steffi Feistel-Kasparek
2001German
Wolffgangi Hildebrands new augirte, weitverbesserte und viel vermehrte Magia naturalis, das ist, Kunst vnd Wunderbuch
Wolfgang Hildebrand
1663German
Woordenlijst voor de spelling der Nederlandsche taal
M. de Vries
1881Dutch
Xantruiel
Norbert Schustek
2026German
Y Gomerydd
Samuel Evans
1854Welsh
Yr athrawydd parod
J. William Jones
1860Welsh
Zauber-Soiree
H. F. C. Suhr
1894German
Zauberglaube und Hexenangst im Kurfürstentum Mainz
Herbert Pohl
1998German
Zauberkünste und Taschenspielereien
McManus-Young Collection
1899German
Zbytky rýmovaných Alexandreid staročeských
Martin Hattala
1881Czech
Zum indogermanischen vocalismus
Friedrich Kluge
1878German
Zur deutschen Rechtschreibung
Theodor Büsch
1892German
Zur orthographischen Frage
Hermann Paul
1880German
Zur regelung der deutschen orthographie
Martin Schultze
1869German
Zweyhundert und vier und zwantzig mehrentheils wurderseltzame und wahrhafftige auch besonders nutzbare Geheimnisse oder Kunst-Stücke, probater Experimente, natürlicher Versuche
Sonderbarer Liebhaber
1820German
Zōho Kogentei hyōchū
Harumi Murata
1878Japanese
Zōho Kogentei hyōchū
Nahiko Katori
1868Japanese
[Enarratio from De incantamentis nonnullis Sumerico-Assyriis]
Peter Jensen
1884Latin
[Incomplete text on letter magic]
David Eugene Smith
1700Arabic
[On charms and talismans]
David Eugene Smith
1813Arabic