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
Johnson's new Philadelphia spelling-book
Benjamin Johnson, Alexander Anderson
1812
Johnson's new Philadelphia spelling-book or, A pleasant path to literature
Benjamin Johnson, Alexander Anderson
1809
Legends for Lionel
Walter Crane
1887
Leisure moments improved
Jocelyn & Purcell
1855
Lily and Water-lily
Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr
1893
Little Johannes
Frederik van Eeden
1895
Little Peter
Lucas Malet, Paul Hardy, D. Appleton and Company
1888
Lob lie-by-the-fire
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
1874
Maurice, or, The red jar
Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers Countess of Jersey
1894
Modern pastime, or, In-door amusements
1871
Modesty and merit, or, The gray-bird's story of Little May-Rose and John
Ferdinand Schmidt
1860
Natural and artifial [sic] conclusions
1670
Nutcracker and mouse king
E. T. A. Hoffmann
1892
Odysseus
Όμηρος
1898
Parlor magic
1889
Parlour magic
Ebenezer Landells
1838
Parlour magic
Harry Houdini Collection, McManus-Young Collection
1838
Prince Dorus, or, Flattery put out of countenance
Charles Lamb
1811
Prince Goldenblade
Gilbert Sir Campbell
1889
Prince Vance
Eleanor Putnam
1888
Rip van Winkle and The legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving, George Henry Boughton
1893
Sayings and doings in fairyland, or, Old friends with new faces
D. S. Sinclair
1890
Sinbad, the sailor
Dalziel Brothers
1889
Six little princesses and what they turned into
Elizabeth Prentiss
1898