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
De Romanorum Comitiis et Praemiis
Paulus Merula
1675NOT
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De Sagarum ... natura, arte, viribus et factis, item de notis indicisque quibus agnoscantur et poena ... censura
Johann von Ewich
1584Latin
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De Sagarum Natura et Potestate, Deque His Recte Cognoscendis et Puniendis Physiologia Gulielmi Adolphi Scribonii Marpurgensis
Wilhelm Adolf Scribonius
1588NOT
- Read free
De Summo bono et soliloquiorum eius liber
Sevilla Isidor
1538NOT
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De coscinomantia, oder vom Sieb-Lauffe
Johannes Praetorius
1677German
- Read free
De fide salvifica libri II. De constantia libri II
Caspar von Barth
1623Latin
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De gemmis libellus unicus
Erasmus Stella
1530NOT
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De gli occulti miracoli ... della natura
Levinus Lemnius
1560NOT
- Read free
De i Miracoli et maravigliosi effetti dalla natura prodotti Libri IV
Giambattista Della Porta
1560NOT
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De l'art et jugement des songes
Ancerme Julian
1557NOT
- Read free
De magia baculorum
Philipp Christoph Beer, Michael Liebentantz
1661Latin
- Read free
De magia disputatio ex Cap. 7. Exo
Nikolaus Falck, Jakob Heerbrand
1570Latin
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De magia disputatio ex cap. 7 Exo
Nikolaus Falk, Jakob Heerbrand
1570Latin
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De magia, de observatione somniorvm, et de divinatione astrologica, libri tres. Adversvs fallaces, et svperstitiosas artes
Benedict Pereira
1598Latin
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De miraculis vivorum, seu de varia natura, variis singularitatibus, proprietatibus, affectionibus, mirandisque virtutibus, facultatibus & signis hominum vivorum
Heinrich Kornmann
1614Latin
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De monstris et monstrosis
Georg Stengel
1647Latin
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De natura et effectionibus Daemonum libelli duo
45-120 Plutarchus
1576Latin
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De naturae divinis characterismis
Cornelis Gemma-Frisius
1575NOT
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De naturalium effectuum causis sive de incantationibus
Pietro Pomponazzi
1556NOT
- Read free
De occulta philosophia
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
1531NOT
- Read free
De occultis naturae miraculis
Levinus Lemnius
1574NOT
- Read free
De occultis naturae miraculis ac variis rerum documentis
Levinus Lemnius
1573NOT
- Read free
De praestigiis Daemonum ... Libri 6
Johannes Wier
1577
- Read free
De praestigiis Daemonum ... Libri V
Johannes Wier
1564NOT