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
Dr J. H. Murray on spelling reform
James Augustus Henry Murray
1880
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English charms, amulets and mascots
Edward Lovett
1910
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English grammar
Rufus William Bailey
1853
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Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of difficult words
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
1882
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Exercises in spelling
Teacher
1837
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First book of reading lessons
1883
- Read free
French pronunciation and spelling
Hippolyte Vannier
1853
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Furst fōnetic redur
Elias Longley
1850
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Games ancient and oriental
Edward Falkener
1892
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German orthography and phonology
George Hempl
1897
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Greene's Introduction: An Introduction to the Study of English Grammar
Samuel Stillman Greene
1868
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Handbook of Latin inscriptions
W. M. Lindsay
1897
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Henry Cornelius Agrippa's fourth book of occult philosophy and geomancy. Magical elements of Peter de Abano. Astronomical geomancy: The nature of spirits; and arbatel of magic
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
1783
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Illustrated descriptive price-list of magical apparatus and illusions ...
Otto] [from old catalog Maurer
1884
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Independent elementary speller
J. Madison Watson
1871
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Liber Taninsam
Daniel Esprit
2026
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Lucks and talismans
Charles Relly Beard
1972
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Manual of English Pronunciation and Spelling: Containing a Full Alphabetical Vocabulary of the ...
Richard Soule, William Adolphus Wheeler, Richard jr Soule
1861
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Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author, and conjuror
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
1859
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Methods of instruction: how to teach reading, pronunciation, and spelling
William A. Brooklyn Campbell
1889
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Need and availability of the writing and spelling reform
William Turner Coggeshall
1857
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New project for reforming the English alphabet and orthography
Ezekiel Rich
1844
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Ojibue spelling book
Edwin James
1846
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On the improvement of English orthography
Danby Palmer Fry
1870