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
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The Talisman
Walter Scott
1886
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The Barddas
Iolo Morganwg, John Williams
1874
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Philosophy in sport made science in earnest
John Ayrton Paris
1833
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Колдовство: документы, процессы, исследование В. Б. Антоновича
Антонович В
1877Polish
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Том 1. Вып. 1. Верования и суеверия. Загадки и пословицы. Колдовство
Чубинський Павло Платонович
1872Russian
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A compendium of the book called Sepher Raziel
Charles Rainsford
1750
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Abyssinian amulet, written for Walatta Māryām or Walatta Māryām Demḳā, and Walatta Ḳerḳōs
E. A. Wallis Budge
1700
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Risālah dar 'adād-i ṣaghīr va kabīr
Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 127
1761Persian
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Tajrubat al-Takthīr
Muḥammad Akram Dihlavī, author
1761Persian
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Tarif No. 39 Lanternes Magiques
A. Molteni
1880French
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
Edith Nesbit
1903
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The Amateur Magician
J. Dazley Theobald
1880
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The secrets of the famous Lazarus Riverius, councellor & physician to the French king, and professor of physick in the University of Montpelier
Lazare Rivière
1685
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Thesaurus secretorum curiosorum
1709Latin
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La scienza e i segreti della natura a Napoli nel Rinascimento
Donato Verardi
2018Italian
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Traité Élémentaire De Magie Pratique
Papus
1893French
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Ancient Magic Magnetism And Psychic Forces
L. H. Anderson
1895
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De Idololatria Magica, Dissertatio, Ioannis Filesaci Theologi Parisiensis
Jean Filesac
1609Latin
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Della magica'arte ouero della magia natvrale discorso ... Nel qual si monstra, che le maraviglie, che si dicono di essa, possono succedere in via naturale, e che il magho può lecitamente usarla
Giuseppe Passi
1614Italian
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Five Children and It
Edith Nesbit, Harold Robert Millar
1905
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The Canadian journal of industry, science and art
Canadian Institute
1856
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Magiæ natvralis, sive de miracvlis rervm naturalivm libri IIII
Giambattista della Porta
1562Latin
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Sinhalese Buddhist charms ola
Producer not identified
1670Pali
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Clavicula Salomonis Regis
Abraham Colorni
1750Hebrew