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
Sefer Refuʾot
1881Hebrew
Shamanism in Norse myth and magic
Clive Tolley
2009Finnish
Shemirat ha-beriʾut
1881Hebrew
Shimush tehilim
1551Hebrew
Siddhanāgārjuna-Kakṣapuṭam
Siddha Nāgārjuna
1390Bengali
Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy
1800
Tahajjiyat wa-mabādiʾ al-qirāʾah li-tadrīs al-ṣibyān
1862Arabic
Ta‘līm mabādiʼ al-qirā’ah al-‘Arabīyah
1872Arabic
Ta’līm mabādī al-qirāh al-‘Arabīyah
1864Arabic
Teḥinot u-segulot ṿe-derekh erets
1862Hebrew
The Hindustani spelling book in the roman character
1866INC
The secret grimoire of Turiel : the rites of ceremonial magick
Marius Malchus
1960French
Traité des trois essences premières ; Le trésor des trésor des alchimistes ; Discours de l'alchimie & autres écrits
Paracelsus
1981Italian
Trinvm magicvm, siue secretorvm magicorvm opus: continens, I. De magia naturali, artificiosa et superstitiosa disquisitiones axiomaticas (M.A. Zimarae tractatus magicus) II. Theatrum naturae, praeter curam magneticam, et veterum sophorum sigilla et imagines magicas, etiam conclusiones physicas, elementales, coelestes & infernales exhibens. (De magnetica curatione vulnerum ... authore R[odolpho] G[oclenio] M.D.) III. Oracula Zoroastris et mysteria mysticae philosophiae, Hebraeorum, Chaldaeorum, Aegyptiorum, Arabum, Persarum, Graecorum, Orphicorum, Pythagoricorum & Latinorum. Accessere nonnulla secreta secretorum & mirabilia mundi. (Tractatus de virtutibus herbarum lapidum, et animalium: authore Alberto Magno)
Caesar Longinus, Albertus Magnus, Rudolph Goclenius the Younger, Giambattista della Porta, Marcantonio Zimara
1616Latin
Varṇamālā au pahāḍā
1883Hindi
Verschiedene sympathetische und geheime Kunst-Stücke, welche nie zuvor im Druck erschienen
1805German
Vetvstissimae tabvlae aeneae sacris Aegyptiorum simulachris coelatae accurata explicatio, in qua antiquissimarum superstitionum origines, progressiones, ritus ad barbaram, graecam, romanamque historiam illustrandam enarrantur, & multa scriptorum veterum loca qua explanantur, qua emendantur
Laurentius Pignorius
1605Latin
Vita da strega
Scott Cunningham
2002Italian
Vozmozhno li primi︠e︡nitʹ russkoe pravopisanīe akad. I︠A︡.K. Grota k praktiki︠e︡?
1886Russian
Vray discours des interrogatoires faicts en la présence de Messieurs de la Cour du Parlement, par les docteurs regénts en la Faculté de medecine en l'Université de Paris
Roch Le Baillif, Paris Descartes University faculty of medicine
1579French
Zeh sifra de-adam ḳadmaʾah she-natan lo Raziʾel ha-malákh
1701Hebrew
Zhongguo dao tan fu zhou
1983Chinese
al-Siḥr al-ḥalāl
1880Arabic
ʾJam dpal ʾdus rgyud Rig sṅags brgya rtsa (ʾJam dpal sras rgyud Ya ma rā tsa)
Chos-kyi-rdo-rje Grwa-sgom
1974Tibetan