Tradition 02 of 33
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- 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
Wie kann unsere Schrift vereinfacht und vervollkommnet Werden?
Josef Bause
1893German
Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland
Lawrence Normand, Gareth O. Roberts, Gareth Roberts
2000
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900
Christine D. Worobec, Valerie A. Kivelson, Valerie Valerie Ann Kivelson, Project Muse
2020
- Read free
Wogan's improved rational spelling-book
John of Grantham Clarke
1812
- Read free
Woordenboek voor de Nederduitsche spelling
Willem Bilderdijk
1829Dutch
- Read free
Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Carl Richard Lepsius
1863German
- Read free
[Collection of amulets, charms, remedies, and magic bowls]
1700Hebrew
- Read free
Échinoderms
Edmond Perrier
1894French
- Read free
Écriture et prononciation du latin savant & du latin populaire
Georges Édon
1882French
- Read free
Über einen naturwissenschaftlichen Aberglauben: Nach einem vortrage gehalten in der ...
Edmund Oskar Lippmann
1894German
Horace's Carmen saeculare
Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam
2000
Texts on magic and fortune telling.
1400
Optical Magic Lantern Journal (August 1889)
1889
Compendium of the occult
Liz Williams
2025
- Read free
English Translation of The Highest Good
Robert Fludd, Source Library, Google Gemini
2026
- Read free
A Treasury of Pleasure Books, for Young People
1858
- Read free
A complete manual
1889
- Read free
A hand-book of Anglo-Saxon orthography
1852
- Read free
A hand-book of the engrafted words of the English language
1854
- Read free
A new spelling book on the comparative method with side-lights from history
1893
- Read free
Buddy's adventures in the blueberry patch
Elsa Beskow
1890German
- Read free
Canadian spelling book
1868
- Read free
Certaine rules, directions, or advertisments for this time of pestilentiall contagion; with a caveat to those that weare about their neckes impoisoned amulets as a preservative from the plague
Francis Herring
1625
- Read free
Grammatical institute of the English language. Part 1
Noah Webster
1788