Tradition 02 of 33
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
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- Books
- 2,483
- Earliest
- 500 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 61%
- 1,520 with public full text
- With covers
- 73%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,133
- Metadata match478
- Query match870
- 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
- Magic516
- History232
- Social Sciences172
- Magie166
- Art147
- Arts and Humanities141
- Occultism135
- Fiction130
- Witchcraft127
- Philosophy124
- MAGIC (telescope)112
- Talismans107
- Juvenile fiction105
- Literature100
- Text81
- RELIGION72
- Early works to 180071
- Non-fiction literature70
- Astrology68
- Demonology68
- Fantasy fiction68
- Orthography and spelling67
- Fantasy63
- Archeology62
Top languages
- English1,044 · 42%
- German486 · 20%
- NOT309 · 12%
- Latin213 · 9%
- French112 · 5%
Notable authors
All authors- Wolfgang Hildebrand27 in this tradition30 books
- Giambattista della Porta25 in this tradition41 books
- Walter Scott21 in this tradition37 books
- James George Frazer18 in this tradition20 books
- L. Frank Baum16 in this tradition21 books
- Johannes Wier16 in this tradition18 books
- Kaspar Schott16 in this tradition17 books
- John John Rea Neill15 in this tradition17 books
- Levinus Lemnius14 in this tradition17 books
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim12 in this tradition22 books
- Scott Cunningham10 in this tradition16 books
- Jean Bodin10 in this tradition15 books
2,483 books
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An history of magic, witchcraft, and animal magnetism
John Campbell Colquhoun
1851
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Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica Atque Technica Historia
Robert Fludd
1617Latin
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Saving Liberalism from Itself
Timothy Stacey
2022
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Languages, Objects, and the Transmission of Rituals
Ciampini, Emanuele Marcello | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-, Crippa, Sabina | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-
2017Italian
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Magic and witchcraft
George Moir
1852
- Read free
Ars artium ... [etc.]
Elias Ashmole, John Dee, Richard Napier, Charles Rainsford
1787
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Chapter 18 Derivative and Associative Popular Frazerism
Alessandro Testa
2025
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Chapter Jan Baptist Van Helmont and the Medical-Alchemical Perspectives of Poison
Delia Georgiana Hedesan
2017
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Power, protection and magic in Thailand : the cosmos of a southern policeman
Australian National University Press, Craig J Reynolds
2019
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Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
Enrique Santos Marinas, Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa
2023
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Techniques of Spiritual Experience
Jean-Pierre Brach, Thierry Zarcone
2025
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The Magus, Book 2
Francis Barrett
1801
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The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
1900
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Modern Magic
Maximilian Schele de Vere
1873
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Lilithism
Daniel Esprit
2026
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The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins ... To which is prefix'd the author's life, and an account of his works
John Wilkins
1708
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The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins ... to which is prefix'd the author's life, and an account of his works
George Fabyan Collection, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection, John Wilkins
1708
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Practical Occultism
J. J. Morse
1888
Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640–1789
Jonathan Barry
2011
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Daimonologia: or, a treatise of spirits. Wherein several places of Scripture are expounded, against the vulgar errors concerning witchcraft, apparitions, etc. To which is added, an appendix, containing some reflections on Mr. Boulton's answer to Dr. Hutchinson's historical essay; entitled The possibility and reality of magick, sorcery and witchcraft demonstrated
Jacques de Daillon
1723
Magic and Masculinity
Frances Timbers
2014
Occultism in a Global Perspective
Gordan Djurdjevic, Henrik Bogdan
2013
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Curious experiments in natural magick and cabalistic from Albertus Parvus
Petit Albert
1750
Shaman
Joan Halifax
1982