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
- 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
Grimoires
Owen Davies
2009
- Read free
The Anatomy of the Body of God
Frater Achad
Date unknown
- Read free
The Black Pullet
Anonymous
Date unknown
- Read free
The Magic Ring and Other Stories
Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford
Date unknown
- Read free
The Secret Doctrine, Volume III
H. P. Blavatsky
Date unknown
The secrets of alchemy
Lawrence Principe, Lawrence M. Principe
2012
- Read free
Modern Magic
Maximilian Schele de Vere
1873
- Read free
Unheard-of curiosities: concerning the talismanical sculpture of the Persians, the horoscope of the Patriarkes; and the reading of the stars
Jacques Gaffarel, Edmund Chilmead
1650
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Second sight secrets and mechanical magic
Herman Pinetti
1905
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Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual
Éliphas Lévi, Arthur Edward Waite
1910
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Religiousness in the Late Middle Ages
Stanislaw Bylina
2019
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Scot's discovery of witchcraft : proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars, and their power to kill, torment, and consume the bodies of men, women, and children, or other creatures by diseases or otherwise, their flying in the air, &c. to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also the lewde unchristian practices of witchmongers upon aged, melancholy, ignorant, and superstious [sic] people in extorting confessions by inhumane terrors and tortures is notably detected ... : whereunto is added, a treatise upon the nature, and substance of spirits and divels &c.
Mcmanus-Young Collection, Reginald Scot
1651
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Yoga or transformation
William Joseph Flagg
1800NOT
- Read free
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 03 of 12)
James George Frazer
Date unknown
- Read free
Aḥkām-i nikāḥ
Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 131, Jūkman, transcriber, Navvāb 'Alī Mardān Khān, former owner
1801Arabic
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Asnād-i chihil ism-i Bārī Ta'ālā
Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 131
1801Persian
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Bantu Beliefs and Magic
Charles William Hobley, James George Frazer
2021
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Bāṭil al-siḥr
Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 131
1801Persian
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Certain astrological and astronomical figures
Honourius
1410Latin
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Fāl-nāmah
Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 133
1832Persian
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Fāl-nāmah-i Ja'far Ṣādiq
Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 131
1801Persian
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Ghālib va maghlūb
Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 133
1832Persian
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Khulāṣah-i 'ilm-i nafs
Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 133
1832Persian
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L. Apuleii Opera
author Apuleius
1493Latin