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
The Hermetic and alchemical writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim called Paracelsus the Great
Paracelse
1894
The History of Dr. John Faustus
1807
The Magick of Kirani, King of Persia, and of Harpocration
1685
The New conjuror's museum and magical magazine
1806
The Peking syllabary
T. F. Wade
1859
The Philadelphia spelling book
1819
The Practical speller
1881
The Practical speller
1881
The Spelling book
1888
The Spelling-book
1876
The Spelling-book, and child's plaything.
1769
The United States' spelling-book
1831
The Universal spelling book for primary schools
1880
The Youth's instructor in the English tongue: or, The art of spelling improved
1771
The Youth's instructor in the English tongue: or, The art of spelling improved.
1769
The Youth's instructor in the English tongue: or, The art of spelling improved.
1760
The apocryphal acts of Peter
1998
The art of conjuring made easy
1801
The bathhouse at midnight
W. F. Ryan
1999
The book of black magic and ceremonial magic: The secret tradition in Goetia : including the rites and mysteries of Goetic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy
Arthur Edward Waite
1942
The book of the sacred magic of Abra = Melin, the mage : as delivered by Abraham the Jew unto his son Lamech, A grimoire of the fifteenth century
S. L. MacGregor Mathers
1932
The enchanted scrap book
1840
The great book of magical art, Hindu magic and East Indian occultism
Lauron William de Laurence
1939
The grimoire : and other supernatural stories
Montague Summers
1936