Tradition 02 of 33
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
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- 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
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The cuckoo clock
Mary Louisa Molesworth
1877
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The history of magic
Éliphas Lévi, Arthur Edward Waite
Date unknown
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The magic casket
R. Austin Freeman
Date unknown
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The magic lantern and its management
Thomas Cradock Hepworth
Date unknown
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The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe
Lynn Thorndike
Date unknown
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The secrets of stage conjuring
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Professor Hoffmann
Date unknown
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The spell of Scotland
Keith Clark
Date unknown
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The spell of the heart of France: the towns, villages and châteaux about Paris
André Hallays, Frank Roy Fraprie
Date unknown
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Three Books of Occult Philosophy
James Freake, Donald Tyson, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Eric Purdue
1531
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Through the Magic Door
Arthur Conan Doyle
Date unknown
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Water Wizardry: A collection of tricks in which water is the chief agent
Arthur Ainslie
Date unknown
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White Magic: A Novel
David Graham Phillips, Albert Beck Wenzell
Date unknown
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Wings and the Child; Or, The Building of Magic Cities
Edith Nesbit, George Barraud
Date unknown
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Wood Magic: A Fable
Richard Jefferies
Date unknown
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Das ärgerliche Leben und schreckliche Ende des vielberüchtigten Erz-Schwarzkünstlers Johannis Fausti [microform]
Johann Nicolaus Pfitzer, Georg Rudolf Widmann
1834German
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La magie au dix-neuvième siècle
Roger Gougenot Des Mousseaux
1860French
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Tractatus posthumus Jani Jacobi Boissardi Vesvuntini de divinatione et magicis præstigiis: quarum veritas ac vanitas solidè exponitur per descriptionem deorum fatidicorum qui olim responsa dederunt; eorundemque prophetarum, sacerdotum, Phoebadum, Sibyllarum et divinorum qui priscis temporibus celebres oraculis exstiterunt
Johann Theodor de Bry
1611Latin
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Disqvisitionvm magicarvm libri sex. Quibus continetvr accurata cvriosarvm artivm, et vanarvm svperstitionum confutatio, vtilis theologis, iurisconsultis, medicis, philologis
Martin Antonio Del Rio
1624Latin
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Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex. Quibus continetur accurata curiosarum artium, & vanarum superstitionum confutatio; utilis theologis, iuris consultis, medicis, philologis
Martin Antonio Del Rio
1608Latin
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Kamaratna
Baṃbaī : Khemarāja Śrīkr̥ṣṇadāsa
1899Sanskrit
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Trois livres des charmes, sorcelages, ov enchantemens. Esquels toutes les especes, et causes des charmes sont methodiquement descrites & doctement expliques selon l'opinion tant des philosophes que les theologiens; auec les vrais contrepoisons pour rabattre les impostures et illusions des daemons: et par mesme moyen les vaines bourdes qu'on met en auant touchant les causes de la puissance de sorceleries y sont clairement refutees
Leonardo Vairo
1583French
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill
1797
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Benedicti Pererii Valentini e Societate Jesv. Adversvs fallaces et svperstitiosas artes, id est, de magia, de observatione somniorum, et, de diuinatione astrologica, libri tres
Jesuits
1591Latin
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Disqvisitionvm magicarvm libri sex. Qvibvs continetvr accvrata cvriosarvm artivm, & vanarvm svperstitionum confutatio vtilis theologis, iurisconsultis, medicis, philologis
Martin Antonio Del Rio
1608Latin