Tradition 02 of 35
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
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- 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
Notes on spelling reform.
W. R Evans
1881
Notes on the orthography of the "Ormulum"
Arthur S. Napier
1893
Observations on the present mode of spelling the English tongue
1802
Parapsychology, Science or Magic?: A Psychological Perspective
James E. Alcock
1981
Parlour magic
1838
Pieces of mind
Bob Somerfeld
1952
Prepossessed
Ron Baillie
1954
Prof. De La Mano has arrived and will positively appear as advertised
1850
Reading disabilities
R. Malatesha Joshi, Che Kan Leong
1899
Recipes and antidotes against the evil effects of witchcraft
1650
Rip Van Winkle
Geo. P. Webster
1875
Ritual & performance in medieval medical manuscripts
Rebecca JS Nice
2018
Ritual and magic in the control of contagion
Julius Alfred Roth
1979
Tarot telepathy
Thayer Manufacturing Co
1948
The Art of conjuring made easy
1823
The Art of talismanic magic
1880
The Best & plainest English spelling-book
1700
The Book of Gold: A 17th Century Magical Grimoire of Amulets, Charms, Prayers, Sigils and Spells Using the Biblical Psalms of King David
David Rankine, Paul Harry Barron
2010
The Complete conjurer
1815
The Devil and Doctor Faustus
1807
The Devil and Doctor Faustus
1807
The Discovery of witchcraft: proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions ... In sixteen books
Reginald Scot
1665
The English examiner, or, A spelling-book
Richard Browne
1692
The Famous history of Doctor John Faustus, the noted conjurer and necromancer
1793