Tradition 02 of 33
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
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- 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
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The American Printer
Thomas MacKellar
1866
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Kitāb-i Advār. [کتاب ادوار]
Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294 ارموي، عبد المؤمن بن يوسف،
1412Persian
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Ioannes Abiosvs regni Neapolis ex Balneolo ... uaticinans euētus anni MDXXIII per eclypsim primo Martii, ac etiam per uiginti planetarum coniunctiones in Februario anno domini MDXXIIII
Giovanni Abiosi
1523
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Wolffgangi Hildebrands neu-vermehrt, vortrefflich, ausserlesen curieuses Kunst und Wunderbuch : darinnen begriffen wunderbahre Geheimnüsse und Kunststücke, wie man nemlich mit dem gantzen menschlichen Cörper zahmen und wilden Thieren, Vogeln, Fischen, Ungezieffern, allerley Gewächsen und Pflantzungen : auch sonsten fast unerhörte wunderbahrliche Sachen verrichten : auch etliche Wunder-Schrifften künstlich zu bereiten : zu löblicher und lustiger Ubung gebrauchen und die Zeit nützlich zu vertreiben, beneben Erzehlung vieler wunderlichen Dingen, so hin und wieder in der Welt gefunden werden : mit angehengter Beschreibung des Paradiess Luft-Garten und Planetenbuche, dabey eine vollkommene Beschreibung der Physiognomiae, Chiromantiae und Distillir-Kunst ...
Ernst Abraham Von Dehn, Joh. Sig. Elshotz, Harry Houdini Collection, Constantine Hering, Wolfgang Hildebrand, Caspar Jugel, Balthasar Müller
1704German
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Bilder der Wunderkunst und des Aberglaubens
Karl Gräbner, Carl Gräbner
1834German
Dämonie der Illusion – L’illusion et le démoniaque
Susanne Goumegou, Jörg Robert, Gudrun Bamberger, Marianne Closson, Paula Furrer, Folke Gernert, Julia Gold, François Lecercle, Jan Machielsen, Bernd Roling, Carolin Struwe-Rohr, Rita Voltmer, Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer
2025
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Les clavicules de Salomon
King of Israel Solomon
1700French
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Androcles and the lion
George Bernard Shaw
1913
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Dogme et rituel de la haute magie
Eliphas Lévi, Arthur Edward Levi Eliphas; Waite
1860
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Of the supreme mysteries of nature. Of the spirits of the planets. Of occult philosophy. The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases. The mysteries of the twelve signs of the zodiack.
Paracelsus, Robert Turner
1656
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Henry Cornelius Agrippa, his Fourth book of occult philosophy. Of geomancy. Magical elements of Peter de Abano. Astronomical geomancy [by Gerardus Cremonensis]. The nature of spirits [by George Pictorius]. Arbatel of magick / translated into English by Robert Turner.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim, Gherardo, Petrus, Georg Pictorius, Robert Turner
1655
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Narratives of sorcery and magic, from the most authentic sources
Harry Houdini Collection, Mcmanus-Young Collection, Thomas Wright
1852
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Vaudeville mind reading and kindred phenomena
Harry Houdini Collection, David J Lustig
1920
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A Collection of the Most Esteemed Pieces of Poetry, that Have Appeared for Several Years
Moses Mendez
1770
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry
John Bell
1789
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry ...: Vol. III
John Bell
1789
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Seder Tiḳun ḥatsot
al-Daudi, Yeḥya, Hebrew Manuscripts NNC, Kara, Avigdor ben Isaac, -1439. Eḥad yaḥid u-meyuḥad, Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto
1700Hebrew
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A select collection of poems: with notes [by J. Nichols]
Select collection
1782
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry.VOL.VI
British Library John Bell
1789
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Beyond the witch trials : witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe
Willem De Blécourt, Owen Davies
2004
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Magie-Theater im 17. Jahrhundert
Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer
2024German
Spellbound
Sophie Page, Marina Wallace, Owen Davies, Malcolm Gaskill, Ceri Houlbrook, Ashmolean Museum
2018
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Witchcraft continued : popular magic in modern Europe
Willem De Blécourt, Owen Davies
2004
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Baḥr al-ʻUyūn
1800Persian