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
The history of Dr. John Faustus
1807
The infant school grammar
1832
The life and mysteries of the celebrated Dr. "Q."
C Alexander
1946
The little boy's own book of sports and pastimes
1855
The manual alphabet with one hand, for the deaf and dumb
1846
The mirror of witchcraft
1803
The new art of hocus pocus revived, or, The whole art of legerdemain
1808
The real secret of the stage second sight act
Burling Hull, Robert Gould Shaw
1916
The showman's guide, or, The black art fully exposed and laid bare
1875
The supernatural? : with chapter on oriental magic, spiritualism, and theosophy
Lionel Alexander. Weatherly, John Nevil Maskelyne, R. A. Gilbert
2000
The youth's instructor in the English tongue, or, The art of spelling improved
1752
Thesaurarium trilingue publicum: being an introduction to English, Latin and Greek
1689
Thought-reading exposed
Albert Morrow, Harry Houdini Collection
1914
Wecli fonetic advocat
1852
Witchcraft
Martine Ostorero
2019
Witches, demons, and fertility magic : analysis of their significance and mutual relations in West-European folk religion
Arne Runeberg
1947
You'd be surprised
Robert Parrish, John Goodrum
1938
[A Collection of catalogs relating to magic]
1875
Akademie Splitterstern - das Geheimnis der Schlangenkrone
Falk Holzapfel
26German
- Read free
The Little Lame Prince, Rewritten for Young Readers
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Margaret Waters
Date unknown
Articles on witchcraft, magic and demonology
Brian P. Levack
####
The Athlone history of witchcraft and magic in Europe
Bengt Ankarloo
####
"...hätte aber nicht geglaubet, daß es eine so grosse sünd wäre..."
David Merker-Schwendinger
2020
"Erdbruderschaft"
Friedrich Wilhelm Quintscher
2004German