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
A Taoist enigma, the exorcist "Spell Lord Wood"
Florian C. Reiter
2024
- Read free
De Talisman; of, Richard Leeuwenhard in Palestina
Walter Scott, Gerard Keller
Date unknownDutch
Illusion in Cultural Practice
Katharina Rein
2021
- Read free
La strega, ovvero, degli inganni de' demoni: dialogo
Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Turino Turini
Date unknownItalian
Prophecy
S. J. Parris
2017
Science and specters at Salem
Matt Goldish
2025
- Read free
Dissertations sur les apparitions des anges, des demons & des esprits . Et sur les revenans et vampires. De Hongrie, de Boheme, de Moravie & de Silesie. Par le R. P. Dom Augustin Calmet, religieux benedictin & abbé de Senones en Lorraine
Augustin Calmet, Scipione Maffei
1746French
Little, Big
John Crowley
1981
The talisman
Stephen King, Peter Straub
1925
Ancient Astrology
Tamysn Barton, Tamsyn S Barton
1994
- Read free
L'histoire des imaginations extravagantes de Monsieur Oufle, causées par la lecture des livres qui traitent de la magie, du grimoire. Description du sabbat. Tome 36
Laurent Bordelon
1789French
- Read free
Statuts et ordonnances pour les marchands epiciers et les marchands apoticaires-epiciers de la ville, fauxbourgs & banlieue de Paris
France, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV
1755French
- Read free
Histoires, disputes et discours des illusions et impostures des diables, des magiciens infâmes, sorcières et empoisonneurs
Johann Wier, Thomas Erastus
1579FRM
Aleister Crowley and Western esotericism
Henrik Bogdan, Martin P. Starr, Wouter J. Hanegraaff
2012
- Read free
Le satanisme et la magie
Jules Bois, Henri Antoine Jules-Bois
1895French
Earth power
Scott Cunningham
1983
Alpha beta
John Man
2000
Condensed Chaos
Phil Hine
1995
- Read free
English Translation of Synesius On Dreams, Iamblichus, Proclus & Porphyry (Ficino)
Synesius, Iamblichus, Proclus, Porphyry, Marsilio Ficino, Source Library, Google Gemini
2026
The crone's book of charms & spells
Valerie Worth
1998
The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft
Kathryn Paulsen
1970
- Read free
English Translation of Histoire de la magie avec une exposition claire et précise de ses procédés, de ses rites et de ses mystères
Alphonse Louis Constant, Source Library, Google Gemini
2026
- Read free
Le satanisme et la magie
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jules Bois
1895French
The Golden Dawn
Israel Regardie, John Michael Greer
1937