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
The New conjuror's museum and magical magazine
1806
The Peking syllabary
T. F. Wade
1859
The Philadelphia spelling book
1819
The Practical speller
1881
The Practical speller
1881
The Spelling book
1888
The Spelling-book
1876
The Spelling-book, and child's plaything.
1769
The United States' spelling-book
1831
The Universal spelling book for primary schools
1880
The Youth's instructor in the English tongue: or, The art of spelling improved
1771
The Youth's instructor in the English tongue: or, The art of spelling improved.
1760
The Youth's instructor in the English tongue: or, The art of spelling improved.
1769
The apocryphal acts of Peter
1998
The art of conjuring made easy
1801
The bathhouse at midnight
W. F. Ryan
1999
The book of black magic and ceremonial magic: The secret tradition in Goetia : including the rites and mysteries of Goetic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy
Arthur Edward Waite
1942
The book of the sacred magic of Abra = Melin, the mage : as delivered by Abraham the Jew unto his son Lamech, A grimoire of the fifteenth century
S. L. MacGregor Mathers
1932
The enchanted scrap book
1840
The great book of magical art, Hindu magic and East Indian occultism
Lauron William de Laurence
1939
The grimoire : and other supernatural stories
Montague Summers
1936
The infant school grammar
1832
The life and mysteries of the celebrated Dr. "Q."
C Alexander
1946
The little boy's own book of sports and pastimes
1855