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
Era
The spelling experimenter and phonetic investigator
1882
The standard speller
Epes Sargent
1856
The story of Rip Van Winkle
Geo. P. Webster
1896
The story of the Rhinegold (Der Ring des Nibelungen)
Anna Alice Chapin
1898
The talking bird, or, The little girl who knew what was going to happen
Mary Kirby
1856
The thousand and one nights, or, The Arabian nights' entertainments
Henry Cocheu
1864
Tom Grubb and his wonderful dog
Nathaniel Orr
1859
[An Epitome of English orthography; or, The art of writing true and right English words, &c.]
1697
[Magic miscellanea, 1845-1955].
1845
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Date unknown
[護符
Date unknownJapanese
7 potencias corte africana viejo y nuevo magia negra y blanca
1990
Das Amerikanische A-B-C-Buch
Germanus
1854German
Das Neue deutsche A B C- und Buchstabir-Bu chlein
1795German
Der "Hackprettler"
2020
En Isländsk Svartkonstbok Från 1500 Talet
1921
Exercices de cacographie
1861French
Huang ting jing zhu jie
1877Chinese
Incredibili magie
2011Italian
Kolumbus-Eier
Elli Auerbach
1890German
Kolumbus-Eier
Harry Houdini Collection
1899German
Ktābā d-húgāyā
American Mission Press
1854SYR
La civilité puerile et honneste pour l'instruction des enfans
Mathurin Cordier
1768French
La civilité puerile et honneste, pour l'instruction des enfans
Missionnaire
1785French