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
Le papyrus magique Harris.
1860French
O Pelotiqueiro desmascarado
1820Portuguese
Orthographia gallica
1884German
Orthographia gallica; ältester Traktat über französische Aussprache und Orthographie, nach vier Handschriften zum ersten Mal hrsg. von J. Stürzinger.
1884Latin
Ortografía de la lengua castellana
1792Spanish
Ortografía de la lengua Castellana
1775Spanish
Ortografía de la lengua Castellana
1800Spanish
The Anglo Saxon
1846
[Language, languages, and writing pamphlets].
1819Multiple languages
Hocus pocus
1800
Stories from the Arabian nights' entertainments
1858
Stories of old times
1855
The Neglected spelling-lesson
1871
"Hunnisches" auf einem Wiener Papyrus (P.Vindob. G 16859)
6.-8. Jh. n. ChrAncient Greek
Vice Versâ: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Three Acts
F Anstey
1910
The Little child's speling [sic] book
1814
The Mother's remarks on a set of cuts for children
1803