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
Stodare's Fly-notes, or, Conjuring made easy
Stodare Colonel
1867
Tales of magic and meaning
Alfred Crowquill
1856
Tales of old times
Gustav Nieritz
1854
The Boy's own conjuring book
McManus-Young Collection
1859
The Child's book of fairy tales
Nathaniel Orr
1859
The Child's playbook, to teach children their letters as soon as they can speak.
1798
The Christmas thorn, and other stories
Louise Stockton, Palmer Cox, D. Lothrop & Company, Russell & Richardson
1881
The Jumping jack's journey, or, The perilous adventures of a jumping jack, a tin soldier, and a nut-cracker
Lander Miss
1858
The Mother's remarks on a set of cuts for children
Lovechild Mrs
1803
The New American spelling book
1806
The New American spelling book, improved
1802
The New American spelling book, improved
1806
The New complete letter writer: or, The art of correspondence.
1792
The New-York primer: or, Second book
Samuel Wood
1811
The Youth's instructor in the English tongue: or The art of spelling improved.
1767
The Youth's instructor in the English tongue: or, The art of spelling improved.
1757
The absent-minded fairy
Margaret Vandegrift
1884
The astrologer of the nineteenth century, or, The master key of futurity and guide to ancient mysteries
1825
The bashful earthquake
Oliver Herford
1898
The book of Quinte essence
1889
The book of pretty conceits.
1685
The book of quinte essence, or the fifth being, that is to say, man's heaven
1866
The booke of secretes of Albertus Magnus
1565
The boy's holiday book
T. E. Fuller
1865