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
Era
Breslaw's last legacy; or, Magical companion
1808
Ceremonial Magic: A Guide to the Mechanisms of Ritual
Israel Regardie
1980
Come inside
Rachael House
2022
Conjuring; or Magic made easy
1850
De La Mano's champion exhibition
1850
Defence of the New Jersey dissent
1845
Dynamics of the psychic world : comments by H. P. Blavatsky on magic, mediumship, psychism, and the power of the spirit
H. P. Blavatsky
1972
Essence, schema, and ritual action
Jesper Sørensen
2001
Every little boy's book
1864
Folk Magic and Healing: An Unusual History of Everyday Plants
Fez Inkwright
2020
Games of skill; and conjuring
1861
Grafton's word and sentence book
1894
Hand & finger tricks
1885
Helps to the orthography of the English language
1833
Herrmann's little jokes
1897
Islamic symbols and Sufi rituals for protection and healing
Edgar Walter Francis
2005
Magic and Divination in the Old Testament
S. A. Nigosian
2008
Magic, divination, and witchcraft among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia
Barrie Reynolds
1963
Magic, myth, and money
William H Desmonde
1962
Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism
Yosef Dan, Karl E. Grözinger
1995
Nangsư̄ hat phāsā
1899
Notes on spelling reform.
W. R Evans
1881
Notes on the orthography of the "Ormulum"
Arthur S. Napier
1893
Observations on the present mode of spelling the English tongue
1802