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
Era
[護符
Date unknownJapanese
7 potencias corte africana viejo y nuevo magia negra y blanca
1990
Das Amerikanische A-B-C-Buch
Germanus
1854German
Das Neue deutsche A B C- und Buchstabir-Bu chlein
1795German
Der "Hackprettler"
2020
Exercices de cacographie
1861French
Huang ting jing zhu jie
1877Chinese
Incredibili magie
2011Italian
Kolumbus-Eier
Harry Houdini Collection
1899German
Kolumbus-Eier
Elli Auerbach
1890German
Ktābā d-húgāyā
American Mission Press
1854SYR
La civilité puerile et honneste pour l'instruction des enfans
Mathurin Cordier
1768French
La civilité puerile et honneste, pour l'instruction des enfans
Missionnaire
1785French
Le papyrus magique Harris.
1860French
O Pelotiqueiro desmascarado
1820Portuguese
Orthographia gallica
1884German
Orthographia gallica; ältester Traktat über französische Aussprache und Orthographie, nach vier Handschriften zum ersten Mal hrsg. von J. Stürzinger.
1884Latin
Ortografía de la lengua castellana
1792Spanish
Ortografía de la lengua Castellana
1775Spanish
Ortografía de la lengua Castellana
1800Spanish
The Anglo Saxon
1846
The Book of quinte essence, or, The fifth being
1866ENM
[Language, languages, and writing pamphlets].
1819Multiple languages
Hocus pocus
1800