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
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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
Parapsychology, Science or Magic?: A Psychological Perspective
James E. Alcock
1981
Parlour magic
1838
Pieces of mind
Bob Somerfeld
1952
Prepossessed
Ron Baillie
1954
Prof. De La Mano has arrived and will positively appear as advertised
1850
Reading disabilities
R. Malatesha Joshi, Che Kan Leong
1899
Recipes and antidotes against the evil effects of witchcraft
1650
Rip Van Winkle
Geo. P. Webster
1875
Ritual & performance in medieval medical manuscripts
Rebecca JS Nice
2018
Ritual and magic in the control of contagion
Julius Alfred Roth
1979
Scot's Discovery of witchcraft
Reginald Scot
1651
Tarot telepathy
Thayer Manufacturing Co
1948
The Art of conjuring made easy
1823
The Art of talismanic magic
1880
The Best & plainest English spelling-book
1700
The Book of Gold: A 17th Century Magical Grimoire of Amulets, Charms, Prayers, Sigils and Spells Using the Biblical Psalms of King David
David Rankine, Paul Harry Barron
2010
The Complete conjurer
1815
The Devil and Doctor Faustus
1807
The Discovery of witchcraft: proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions ... In sixteen books
Reginald Scot
1665
The English examiner, or, A spelling-book
Richard Browne
1692
The Famous history of Doctor John Faustus, the noted conjurer and necromancer
1793
The Hermetic and alchemical writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim called Paracelsus the Great
Paracelse
1894
The History of Dr. John Faustus
1807
The Magick of Kirani, King of Persia, and of Harpocration
1685