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
- Read free
Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry.VOL.VI
British Library John Bell
1789
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Beyond the witch trials : witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe
Willem De Blécourt, Owen Davies
2004
- Read free
Ioannis Macarii canonici ariensis Abraxas, seu, Apistopistus
Jean Chifflet, Joannes Macarius, Balthasar Moretus, Jacques van Werden
1657Latin
- Read free
Magic Lantern Journal - Ground Glass Screen 1898
Magic Lantern Journal Annual
1898
- Read free
Magie-Theater im 17. Jahrhundert
Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer
2024German
- Read free
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author, and conjuror
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Lascelles Wraxall
1860
Spellbound
Sophie Page, Marina Wallace, Owen Davies, Malcolm Gaskill, Ceri Houlbrook, Ashmolean Museum
2018
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The African: A Tale and Other Poems
Dugald Moore
1830
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The Boarding School: Or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils; Consisting of Information
Hannah Webster Foster
1829
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library
British anthology
1825
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The barouche driver and his wife
Charles Sedley
1807
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The book of celebrated poems
Book
1854
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The mummy
E. A. Wallis Budge
1893
- Read free
Witchcraft continued : popular magic in modern Europe
Willem De Blécourt, Owen Davies
2004
- Read free
Περὶ Ἴσιδος καὶ Ὀσίριδος
Plutarch
1778Ancient Greek
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E. Mazo Catalogue No 11. Fabrique d'appareils de projection, tableaux mécanisés
E. Mazo
1898French
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La magie blanche dévoilée, ou, Explication des tours surprenans qui font depuis peu l'admiration de la capitale & de la province
Henri Decremps
1792French
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A treatise of magic incantations
Christianus Pazig
1886
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General History, Cyclopedia And Dictionary Of Freemasonry
Robert Macoy
1872
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Kitāb al-Tawākiz al-muḥarrarah wa-al-ḍamāʼir al-mustakhbarah. كتاب التواكز المحررة والضمائر المستخبرة
ʻAjamī, Kurdī Sayyidī Maḥmūd عجمي، كردي سيدي محمود
1767Arabic
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Baḥr al-ʻUyūn
1800Persian
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Cabale misterieuse des 150 pseaumes du Roy David
1750French
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Certain astrological and astronomical figures
1410Latin
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Dhakhīrat al-Iskandar al-Malik ibn Fīliqs Dhī al-Qarnayn
1700Arabic