Tradition 02 of 33
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 5,190
- Earliest
- 500 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 48%
- 2,504 with public full text
- With covers
- 57%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match2,962
- Metadata match478
- Query match1,748
- 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
- Magic1.2K
- Orthography and spelling829
- Magic tricks538
- Early works to 1800533
- English language397
- History330
- occultism283
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric270
- Witchcraft262
- Juvenile fiction204
- Magie189
- Fiction177
- Social Sciences172
- Handbooks, manuals171
- Alchemy157
- Charms157
- Art151
- Talismans144
- Arts and Humanities141
- Philosophy138
- Demonology130
- Amulets128
- Spellers127
- Medicine120
Top languages
- English2,329 · 45%
- German862 · 17%
- French473 · 9%
- Latin444 · 9%
- NOT308 · 6%
Notable authors
All authors- Giambattista della Porta32 in this tradition89 books
- Wolfgang Hildebrand29 in this tradition32 books
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim25 in this tradition46 books
- Henri Decremps25 books
- Paracelsus23 in this tradition292 books
- Albertus Magnus23 in this tradition45 books
- Johann Weyer23 in this tradition24 books
- Walter Scott22 in this tradition42 books
- Levinus Lemnius20 in this tradition35 books
- James George Frazer18 in this tradition19 books
- L. Frank Baum17 in this tradition21 books
- Hobbies Ltd17 books
5,190 books
- Read free
The Magic Cameo: A Love Story
Georgie Sheldon
Date unknown
- Read free
The Magic Egg, and Other Stories
Frank R Stockton
Date unknown
- Read free
The Magic House, and Other Poems
Duncan Campbell Scott
Date unknown
- Read free
The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones
Isidore Kozminsky
Date unknown
- Read free
The Magic of Spain
Aubrey Aubrey Fitz Gerald Bell
Date unknown
- Read free
The Magic of the Horse-shoe, with other folk-lore notes
Robert Means Lawrence
Date unknown
- Read free
The Old and the New Magic
Henry Ridgely Evans, Paul Carus
Date unknown
- Read free
The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions
Carveth Read
Date unknown
- Read free
The Practical Magician and Ventriloquist's Guide
Anonymous
Date unknown
- Read free
The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion
James James Henry Leuba
Date unknown
- Read free
The Sky Is Falling
Lester Del Rey
Date unknown
- Read free
The Slayer of Souls
Robert Robert William Chambers
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell
William Dana Orcutt, Gertrude Demain Hammond
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of Belgium
Isabel Anderson
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of Egypt
Robert Hichens
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of Flanders
Edward Neville Vose
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of Japan
Isabel Anderson
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of Switzerland
Nathan Haskell Dole
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines
Isabel Anderson
Date unknown
- Read free
The Spell of the Rockies
Enos A Mills
Date unknown
- Read free
The Talisman, from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin; With Other Pieces
George Borrow, Adam Mickiewicz, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Date unknown
- Read free
The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
Harry Houdini
Date unknown
- Read free
The White Feather Hex
Don Peterson
Date unknown
- Read free
The Witch's Head
H. Rider Haggard, Charles H. M Kerr
Date unknown