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
- Read free
Collection of prayers and charms
1750Arabic
- Read free
THE MAGIC FISHBONE By CHARLES DICKENS -GUNSTON CLASSICS-
CHARLES DICKENS - GUNSTON CLASSICS
1867
- Read free
The Princess and the Goblin
George MacDonald
1872
- Read free
The magic ring, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué, Robert Pearse Gillies
Date unknown
- Read free
Magic
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Date unknown
- Read free
The Magic Skin
Honoré de Balzac, Ellen Marriage
Date unknown
- Read free
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
Walter Scott
Date unknown
- Read free
The Magic City
Edith Nesbit, Harold Robert Millar
Date unknown
- Read free
Traités des sciences occultes, de diverses mains
1601French
- Read free
Fairy Tales and Stories
Hans Christian Andersen, H. Oskar Sommer, Arthur Gaskin
1850
- Read free
The wonders of nature and art
Joseph Taylor
1838
- Read free
al-Qurʼān. [القرآن]
1750Arabic
Of water and the spirit
Malidoma Patrice Somé
1994
- Read free
Compendium Rarissimum Totius Artis Magicae Sistematisatae Per Celeberrimos Artis Hujus Magistros
1775Urdu
- Read free
Buchstabenmystik
Franz Dornseiff
Date unknownGerman
- Read free
Goena-Goena: Oorspronkelijke roman
Paul Adriaan Daum
Date unknownDutch
- Read free
Histoire de la magie
Éliphas Lévi
Date unknownFrench
- Read free
Le streghe
Defendente Sacchi
Date unknownItalian
- Read free
Magie bij de Grieken en de Romeinen
K. H. E. de Jong
Date unknownDutch
- Read free
Sylvie and Bruno
Lewis Carroll
1889
- Read free
The Book of Quinte Essence or the Fifth Being (1889)
Frederick James Furnivall, Trismegistus Hermes
Date unknownENM
- Read free
Kitāb al-Kashf wa-al-bayān. Īḍāḥ al-rumūz fī al-burhān
1600Arabic
- Read free
Undine, eine Erzählung
Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Kar La Motte-Fouqué
1845
- Read free
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
Lewis Carroll
1893