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
אורים ותומים
1885Hebrew
A briefe and pleasaunt treatise, intituled, Naturall and artificiall conclusions: written first by sundrie scholers of the Vniuersitie of Padua in Italie, at the instant request of one Barthelmewe a Tuscane: and now Englished by Thomas Hill Londoned [sic], as well for the commoditie of sundrie artificers, as for the matters of pleasure, to recreate wittes at vacant tymes
1581
Adventures in fairyland
David H. Brewer
1894
Aladdin, or, The wonderful lamp
Sidney Heath
1895
Art.I. - Zauber-Bibliothek oder von Zauberei, Theurgie und Mantik, Zauberen, Hexen, und Hexenprocessen, Dämonen, Gespenstern, und Geistererscheinungen. Von Georg. Conrad Horst ... [Book review].
1826
Beauty and the Beast
Constance Haslewood
1890
Beyond the snow
P. Fishe Reed
1873
Brownies and rose-leaves
Roma White
1892
Chambers' primer, or, First book for children
Reuben Chambers
1852
Christmas at Annesley, or, How the Grahams spent their holdidays
Mary E. Shipley
1875
Classification and sounds of letters
1842
Cobb's new sequel to The juvenile readers, or, Fourth reading book
Lyman Cobb
1843
Daffy down dilly and her friends
H. H. Weston
1870
ESP handbook and workshop kit
1960
Eclectic class-book of English orthography
E. C. Willmot
1858
English grammar, adapted to the different classes of learners
Lindley Murray, Simon Probasco, Lawrence Johnson
1803
Friendly advice to the correctour of the English press at Oxford concerning the English orthographie
1682
Henry Cornelius Agrippa his fourth book of occult philosophy
1665
Hocus pocus junior. The anatomy of legerdemain. Or, The art of jugling
1658
Hocus pocus junior. The anatomy of legerdemain. Or, the art of jugling
1671
Hocus pocus junior. The anatomy of legerdemain; or, The art of jugling
1691
Hocus pocus, or, The whole art of conjuring made easy for young persons
McManus-Young Collection
1846
How to behave and how to amuse
1895
Imaginotions
Tudor Jenks
1894