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
The manual alphabet with one hand, for the deaf and dumb
1846
The mirror of witchcraft
1803
The new art of hocus pocus revived, or, The whole art of legerdemain
1808
The real secret of the stage second sight act
Burling Hull, Robert Gould Shaw
1916
The showman's guide, or, The black art fully exposed and laid bare
1875
The supernatural? : with chapter on oriental magic, spiritualism, and theosophy
Lionel Alexander. Weatherly, John Nevil Maskelyne, R. A. Gilbert
2000
The youth's instructor in the English tongue, or, The art of spelling improved
1752
Thesaurarium trilingue publicum: being an introduction to English, Latin and Greek
1689
Thought-reading exposed
Albert Morrow, Harry Houdini Collection
1914
Wecli fonetic advocat
1852
Witchcraft
Martine Ostorero
2019
Witches, demons, and fertility magic : analysis of their significance and mutual relations in West-European folk religion
Arne Runeberg
1947
You'd be surprised
Robert Parrish, John Goodrum
1938
[A Collection of catalogs relating to magic]
1875
Akademie Splitterstern - das Geheimnis der Schlangenkrone
Falk Holzapfel
26German
Articles on witchcraft, magic and demonology
Brian P. Levack
####
The Athlone history of witchcraft and magic in Europe
Bengt Ankarloo
####
"...hätte aber nicht geglaubet, daß es eine so grosse sünd wäre..."
David Merker-Schwendinger
2020
"Erdbruderschaft"
Friedrich Wilhelm Quintscher
2004German
"Far fjandi, fúli andi"
Freyja Hlíðkvist Ómarsdóttir
2004Icelandic
"Fjölnir"
Leoníd L. Korabljov
2014Russian
"Fold og sjórinn léku dans"
Kristín Jónsdóttir
1994Icelandic
"Kum tüfel und nim miner muoter und min sel!"
Elena Milunic, Hans-Jörg Gilomen
2009German
"Spirits to enforce, art to enchant"
Marlene Weseslindtner
2009