Tradition 02 of 33
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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
Der Geheimnissvolle Tausendkünstler
1782German
Der gewandte Zauberkünstler
1876German
Der kleine Zauberkünstler und Taschenspieler
1884German
Der perfekte Zauberkünstler und Taschenspieler
1887German
Des talismans, ou figures faites sous certaines constellations, pour faire aymer et respecter les hommes, les enrichir, guerir leurs maladies, etc. ... Avec des observations contre le livre des Curiositez inouyes de M.I. Gaffarel. Et un traicté de l'unguent des armes, ou unguent sympathetique et constellé ... Le tout tiré de la seconde partie de la science des choses corporelles Par le sieur De l'Isle [i.e. C. Sorel] [pseud]
Charles Sorel, Jacques Gaffarel
1636French
Die Neuerungen der neuen "deutschen Rechtschreibung"
1882German
Die abgeredte Zauberey
Jean-François Marmontel, Gottlieb Stephanie, André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
1778German
Die bezauberte Welt: oder eine gründliche Untersuchung des allgemeinen Aberglaubens, betreffend, die Arth und das Vermögen, Gewalt und Wirckung des Satans und der bösen Geister über den Menschen, und was diese durch derselben Krafft und Gemeinschafft thun
Balthasar Bekker
1693Dutch
Discours véritable d'un sorcier nommé Gimel Truc
1874French
Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex. Quibus continetur accurata curiosarum artium, & vanarum superstitionum confutatio; utilis theologis, iuris consultis, medicis, philologis
Martin Delrio
1608Latin
Disqvisitionvm magicarvm libri sex. In tres tomos partiti
Martin Delrio
1600Latin
Disqvisitionvm magicarvm libri sex. Quibus continetvr accurata cvriosarvm artivm, et vanarvm svperstitionum confutatio, vtilis theologis, iurisconsultis, medicis, philologis
Martin Delrio
1624Latin
Disqvisitionvm magicarvm libri sex. Qvibvs continetvr accvrata cvriosarvm artivm, & vanarvm svperstitionum confutatio vtilis theologis, iurisconsultis, medicis, philologis
Martin Delrio
1608Latin
Eine Wahre und approbirte Kunst in Feuers-Brünsten und Pestilentz-Zeiten nützlich zu gebrauchen
1780German
Eliae Henrici Henckelii Ordo et methodus cognoscendi & curandi energumenos seu à Stygio cacodaemone obsessos
Elias Heinrich Henckel
1689Latin
Enchiridion du pape Leon
1700French
Engi ga ii
Naoko Amemiya
2015Japanese
Fascicvlvs Paracelsicae medicinae veteris et non novae, per floscvlos chimicos et medicos, tanquam in compendiosum promptuarium collectus. In qvo de vita, morte, et resvscitatione rervm, de tvenda et conseruanda sanitate, nec non expellendo morbo per instaurationem virium naturalium, de praeparationibus medicamentorum, in vsum applicationibus ad quoscunque morbos, cùm internos, tùm externos. Item, de generatione homunculi pygmei, ex Dampra nutrimenti sanguinis. Cvm elvcidationibvs hvivs, aliorvmqve obscuriorum quorumcun[que] locorum atque dictionum. Inibi passim occurrentium
Paracelsus, Gerhard Dorn
1581Latin
Francisci Torreblanca Epitome delictorum, sive De magia
Torreblanca Villalpando Francisco
1678Latin
Georgii Pictorii Villingani medici, Sermonum convivalium apprimè utilium
Georg Pictorius, Theodericus Ulsenius, Serenus Sammonicus
1559Latin
Giochi, secreti, et altro
1600Italian
Grimoires de Saint-Simon : nouveaux inédits
Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon, Yves Coirault
1975French
Grimoires et rituels magiques
François Ribadeau Dumas
1980French
Handschriftliche Schätze aus Kloster-Bibliotheken
1890German