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
Der übernatürliche Philosoph, oder, Die Geheimnisse der Magie
Daniel Defoe
1742German
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Geomantia
Petrus de Abano, Patricio Tricasso, Curzio Troiano de Navò, von Abano Petrus
1544Latin
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Integrum morborum mysterium: sive medicinae Catholicae tomi primi tractatus secundus
Robert Fludd
1631Latin
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Kurtze Lehr-Satze von dem Laster der Zauberey
Christian Thomasius
1702German
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L'histoire des imaginations extravagantes de Monsieur Oufle
Laurent Bordelon
1710French
- Read free
L. Apulei Madaurensis Apologia
Apuleius, Gustav Krüger, Madaurensis Apuleius
1864Latin
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La magie naturelle
Giambattista della Porta
1612French
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Le comte de Gabalis
Nicolas Pierre Henri de Montfaucon Villars
1670French
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Le monde enchanté
Balthasar Bekker
1694French
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Les secrets de la prestidigitation et de la magie
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
1868French
- Read free
Lux e tenebris, novis radiis aucta
Johann Amos Comenius
1665NOT
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Lux in tenebris
Johann Amos Comenius
1657Latin
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Magia Adamica, oder, Das Alterthum der Magie
Thomas Vaughan
1704German
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Magia naturalis
Wolffgang Hildebrand
1611German
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Magia philosophica
Francesco Patrizi
1593NOT
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Magiae naturalis, sive, De miraculis rerum naturalium libri IIII
Giambattista della Porta, Christophe Plantin
1560Latin
Magic, witchcraft, and curing
John Middleton
1967
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Mathematical Recreations and Essays
W. W. Rouse Ball
Date unknown
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Natürliches Zauber-Buch, oder, Neu-eröffneter Spiel-Platz rarer Künste
Simon Witgeest
1713German
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Ottonis Tachenii Hippocrates chimicus
Otto Tachenius
1668Latin
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Replica alla risposta intitolata Arte magica distrutta
Andrea Lugiato
1751Italian
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Responsio ad examen Ignoti Patroni Veritatis de purgatione sagarum per aquam frigidam
Wilhelm Adolf Scribonius, Ignotus patronus veritatis pseud, Johann Wechel
1590NOT
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Richard Baxters Gewissheit der Geister
Richard Baxter
1755German
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Riflessioni sopra l'Arte magica annichilata
Andrea Lugiato
1755NOT