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
Traité des trois essences premières ; Le trésor des trésor des alchimistes ; Discours de l'alchimie & autres écrits
Paracelsus
1981Italian
Trinvm magicvm, siue secretorvm magicorvm opus: continens, I. De magia naturali, artificiosa et superstitiosa disquisitiones axiomaticas (M.A. Zimarae tractatus magicus) II. Theatrum naturae, praeter curam magneticam, et veterum sophorum sigilla et imagines magicas, etiam conclusiones physicas, elementales, coelestes & infernales exhibens. (De magnetica curatione vulnerum ... authore R[odolpho] G[oclenio] M.D.) III. Oracula Zoroastris et mysteria mysticae philosophiae, Hebraeorum, Chaldaeorum, Aegyptiorum, Arabum, Persarum, Graecorum, Orphicorum, Pythagoricorum & Latinorum. Accessere nonnulla secreta secretorum & mirabilia mundi. (Tractatus de virtutibus herbarum lapidum, et animalium: authore Alberto Magno)
Caesar Longinus, Albertus Magnus, Rudolph Goclenius the Younger, Giambattista della Porta, Marcantonio Zimara
1616Latin
Varṇamālā au pahāḍā
1883Hindi
Verschiedene sympathetische und geheime Kunst-Stücke, welche nie zuvor im Druck erschienen
1805German
Vetvstissimae tabvlae aeneae sacris Aegyptiorum simulachris coelatae accurata explicatio, in qua antiquissimarum superstitionum origines, progressiones, ritus ad barbaram, graecam, romanamque historiam illustrandam enarrantur, & multa scriptorum veterum loca qua explanantur, qua emendantur
Laurentius Pignorius
1605Latin
Vita da strega
Scott Cunningham
2002Italian
Vozmozhno li primi︠e︡nitʹ russkoe pravopisanīe akad. I︠A︡.K. Grota k praktiki︠e︡?
1886Russian
Vray discours des interrogatoires faicts en la présence de Messieurs de la Cour du Parlement, par les docteurs regénts en la Faculté de medecine en l'Université de Paris
Roch Le Baillif, Paris Descartes University faculty of medicine
1579French
Zeh sifra de-adam ḳadmaʾah she-natan lo Raziʾel ha-malákh
1701Hebrew
Zhongguo dao tan fu zhou
1983Chinese
al-Siḥr al-ḥalāl
1880Arabic
ʾJam dpal ʾdus rgyud Rig sṅags brgya rtsa (ʾJam dpal sras rgyud Ya ma rā tsa)
Chos-kyi-rdo-rje Grwa-sgom
1974Tibetan
אורים ותומים
1885Hebrew
A briefe and pleasaunt treatise, intituled, Naturall and artificiall conclusions: written first by sundrie scholers of the Vniuersitie of Padua in Italie, at the instant request of one Barthelmewe a Tuscane: and now Englished by Thomas Hill Londoned [sic], as well for the commoditie of sundrie artificers, as for the matters of pleasure, to recreate wittes at vacant tymes
1581
Adventures in fairyland
David H. Brewer
1894
Aladdin, or, The wonderful lamp
Sidney Heath
1895
Art.I. - Zauber-Bibliothek oder von Zauberei, Theurgie und Mantik, Zauberen, Hexen, und Hexenprocessen, Dämonen, Gespenstern, und Geistererscheinungen. Von Georg. Conrad Horst ... [Book review].
1826
Beauty and the Beast
Constance Haslewood
1890
Beyond the snow
P. Fishe Reed
1873
Brownies and rose-leaves
Roma White
1892
Chambers' primer, or, First book for children
Reuben Chambers
1852
Christmas at Annesley, or, How the Grahams spent their holdidays
Mary E. Shipley
1875
Classification and sounds of letters
1842
Cobb's new sequel to The juvenile readers, or, Fourth reading book
Lyman Cobb
1843