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
Ṭarīq al-hijā wa-al-tamrīn ʿalá al-qirāʾah fī al-lughah al-ʿArabīyah
ʻAlī Mubārak Bāshā
1869Arabic
上清靈寶大法
寗本立, 王契真, Nei fu
1445Chinese
小學仮字格
川上廣樹, 松本操貞
1874Japanese
廣化真經
Dongbin Lü, 王履階, 瑪瑙講寺南房
1775Chinese
現代魔術大系 = The Modern Magick Series. 1
秋端, 勉, Chic Cicero, Sandra Tabatha Cicero, 婀聞, マリス
2023Japanese
袖裏金百中經
Wen lin tang
1875Chinese
A History of magic and experimental science during the first thirteen centuries of our era. Vol. 1-8
Lynn Thorndike
1929
A Small collection of questions & answers, from various authors.
1799
A handbook of Anglo-Saxon orthography
1852
A history of magic and experimental science
Lynn Torndike
1929
A history of magic, witchcraft and occultism
William Bernard Crow
1968
A new spelling book
Thomas Lye
1677
Alchemy, magic and miracles in the Napolitan medical culture in the Aragonise age (1442-1502)
Gianni Iacovelli
1983
Amagqirha
Joan A. Broster, Herbert C. Bourn
1982
An encyclopaedia of occultism : a compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science, magic, demonology, spiritism, mysticism, and metaphysics.
Lewis Spence
1974
Anatomy of witchcraft
Peter Haining
1972
Ancient Christian magic
1994
Ancient Egyptian Demonology: Studies on the Boundaries between the Demonic and the Divine in Egyptian Magic
Panagiotis Kousoulis
2011
Ancient magic and divination 1
Tzvi Abusch, Karel van der Toorn
1999
Arcane secrets and occult lore of Mexico and Mayan Central America;: A treasury of magic, astrology, witchcraft, demonology, and symbolism
Lewis Spence
1973
Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology
1992
Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology : a twelve volume anthology of scholarly articles
Brian P. Levacκ
1992
Black art, or, Magic made easy
1897
Breslaw's last legacy, or, The magical companion ...
1811