Tradition 02 of 35
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 6,161
- Earliest
- 500 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 57%
- 3,481 with public full text
- With covers
- 62%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match3,232
- Metadata match480
- Query match2,447
- 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
- Magic1.3K
- Orthography and spelling830
- Early works to 1800568
- Magic tricks557
- English language397
- History353
- occultism308
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric284
- Witchcraft280
- Juvenile fiction233
- Fiction205
- Magie191
- Social Sciences174
- Handbooks, manuals171
- Alchemy164
- Charms162
- Art152
- Talismans146
- Arts and Humanities143
- Demonology142
- Philosophy140
- Amulets129
- Spellers127
- Medicine126
Top languages
- English2,359 · 38%
- German1,372 · 22%
- NOT563 · 9%
- French516 · 8%
- Latin449 · 7%
Notable authors
All authors- Giambattista della Porta32 in this tradition90 books
- Wolfgang Hildebrand29 in this tradition32 books
- Henri Decremps29 books
- Albertus Magnus28 in this tradition53 books
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim28 in this tradition49 books
- Johann Nicolaus Martius27 books
- Paracelsus24 in this tradition294 books
- Johann Weyer24 in this tradition25 books
- Walter Scott22 in this tradition52 books
- Johann Samuel Halle21 books
- Levinus Lemnius19 in this tradition34 books
- James George Frazer18 in this tradition33 books
6,161 books
Era
Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology : a twelve volume anthology of scholarly articles
Brian P. Levacκ
1992
Black art, or, Magic made easy
1897
Breslaw's last legacy, or, The magical companion ...
1811
Breslaw's last legacy; or, Magical companion
1808
Ceremonial Magic: A Guide to the Mechanisms of Ritual
Israel Regardie
1980
Come inside
Rachael House
2022
Conjuring; or Magic made easy
1850
De La Mano's champion exhibition
1850
Defence of the New Jersey dissent
1845
Dynamics of the psychic world : comments by H. P. Blavatsky on magic, mediumship, psychism, and the power of the spirit
H. P. Blavatsky
1972
Essence, schema, and ritual action
Jesper Sørensen
2001
Every little boy's book
1864
Folk Magic and Healing: An Unusual History of Everyday Plants
Fez Inkwright
2020
Games of skill; and conjuring
1861
Grafton's word and sentence book
1894
Hand & finger tricks
1885
Helps to the orthography of the English language
1833
Herrmann's little jokes
1897
Islamic symbols and Sufi rituals for protection and healing
Edgar Walter Francis
2005
Magic and Divination in the Old Testament
S. A. Nigosian
2008
Magic, divination, and witchcraft among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia
Barrie Reynolds
1963
Magic, myth, and money
William H Desmonde
1962
Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism
Yosef Dan, Karl E. Grözinger
1995
Nangsư̄ hat phāsā
1899