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
Le signe et le grimoire : essais sur l'art mexicain
Octavio Paz, Jean-Claude Masson
1995French
Le véritable Dragon rouge
1875French
Legends of Incense, Herb and Oil Magic
Lewis De Claremont
1938
Les Tas de Pierres Sacrés, et Quelques Pratiques Connexes dans le Sud du Maroc
Edmond Doutté
1903French
Les devins
Kaspar Peucer
1584French
Lettres d'un negociant a son fils
1786French
Leḥashim u-segulot
1880Hebrew
Liber aggregationis s. secretorum de virtutibus herbarum ...
1534Latin
Lisan-i Türkinin imlası
1848Ottoman Turkish
Louis le petit
1895German
Louis le petit
1885German
Louis le petit
1890German
Magia
2017Italian
Magie für gesellschaftliches Vernügen
1793German
Magie, hekserij en toverij
Gerrit Jan Held
1950Dutch
Mallarmé : la grammaire & le grimoire
Mireille Ruppli, Sylvie Thorel-Cailleteau
2005French
Manual do prestidigitador
1894Portuguese
Maratha spelling book
1845MAR
Memorias e Confidencias do Popular Illusionista Faure Nicolay
Nicoláu Faure Nicolay
1901Portuguese
Miraculum mundi, sive plena perfectaque descriptio admirabilis naturæ, ac proprietatis potentissimi subiecti
Johann Rudolf Glauber
1658Latin
Mostra di libri di profezie, astrologia, chiromanzia, alchimia
Archivio storico civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana
1953Italian
Neues buchstabierbuch, enthaltend regeln der orthographie und materialien zum dictiren
1837German
Nouvelle ortographe tres-facile, pour bien apprendre à lire, écrire & bien parler correctement
1680French
Nuevo manual de magia blanca
1888Spanish