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
The Queen's English
Henry Alford
1864
- Read free
The Scholar's Companion: Containing Exercises in the Orthography, Derivation, and Classification ..
Henry Butter
1846
- Read free
The Spelling-book
Ontario. Council of Public Instruction
1867
- Read free
The companion to spelling books
William Bentley Fowle
1843
- Read free
The duty of literary men
T. A. Goodwin
1878
- Read free
The english instructor
Henry Dixon
1760
- Read free
The high school English word-book
James W Connor
1887
- Read free
The irregularities of English spelling
J. B. Rundell
1881
- Read free
The natural speller and word book
S. Kupfer
1890
- Read free
The opening address before the International convention for the amendment of English orthography, at Philadelphia, August 15th, 1876
Francis Andrew March
1876
- Read free
The practical speller
Lewis B. Monroe
1875
- Read free
The practical spelling-book, with reading lessons
T. H. Gallaudet, Horace Hooker
1840
- Read free
The practice of typography
Theodore Low De Vinne
1899
- Read free
The primary gift of 275 letter cards in print and script
Ellen D. Starr
1884
- Read free
The printers' guide
Cornelius S. Van Winkle
1818
- Read free
The pupils own vocabulary speller
Arthur I. Gates
1947
- Read free
The scholar's companion
Henry Butter
1841
- Read free
The scholar's companion
Rufus William Bailey
1857
- Read free
The simplification of English spelling
George Harley
1877
- Read free
The spelling-book
Ontario. Department of Education
1868
- Read free
The spelling-book
1867
- Read free
The spelling-book superseded
Robert Sullivan
1800
- Read free
The tenting school
Cornelius W. Larison
1883
- Read free
The universal language
William White
1854