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
De praestigiis Daemonum Thl. 1. 1. (1566)
Johannes Wier
1566NOT
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De praestigiis et incantationibus daemonum et necromanticorum
Richard Argentine
1568NOT
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De puella quae sine cibu et potu vitam transegit, brevis narratio
Gerardus Bucoldianus
1542NOT
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De quadruplici hominis ortu
Nuno 〈〈da〉〉 Costa Caldeira
1594
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De secretis libri VII
Girolamo Ruscelli
1603NOT
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De secretis libri sex
Girolamo Ruscelli
1561NOT
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De sensu rerum & magia, libros quatuor . In quibus mundum esse vivam Dei statuam, omnésque illius partes, partiúmque particulas sensu donatas esse, alias clariori, alias obscuriori, quantus ipsarum sufficit conservationi, ac totius in quo consentiunt, probatur. Ac arcanorum naturalium rationes aperiuntur. Correctos & defensos à stupidorum incolarum mundi calumniis per argumenta & testimonia divinorum codicum, naturæ, sc. ac scripturæ, eorumdémque interpretum, scilicet, theologorum & philosophorum, exceptis atheis. Jure potissimo dedicat consecratque
Tommaso Campanella
1636Latin
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De sensu rerum et magia
Tommaso Campanella
1620NOT
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De spectris, lemuribus
Ludwig Lavater
1570NOT
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De spectris, lemuribus et magnis
Ludwig Lavater
1659NOT
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De strigimagarum demonumque mirandis libri tres
Silvestro Mazzolini
1521NOT
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De tractandis Equis sive Hippocomicus Conversio Xenophontis de re equestri. Historiola rei nummariae
Joachim Camerarius
1539NOT
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De triplici vita
Marsilius Ficinus
1489Latin
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De veneficis, quos olim sortilegos nunc ... Sortiarios vocant dialogus
Lambert Daneau
1574NOT
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Decisiones physionomiae
von Abano Petrus
1548NOT
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Deliciae Physico-Mathematicae, Oder Mathemat. und Philosophische Erquickstunden. 2, Bestehend in Fünffhundert nutzlichen und lustigen Kunstfragen, nachsinnigen Aufgaben, und deroselben grundrichtigen Erklärungen, Auß Athanasio Kirchero, Petro Bettino, Marino Mersennio, Renato des Cartes, Orontio Fineo, Marino Gethaldo, Cornelio Drebbelio, Alexandro Tassoni, Sanctorio Sanctorii, Marco Marci, und vielen andern Mathematicis und Physicis zusammen getragen
Georg Philipp Harsdörffer
1651German
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Deliciae calendario-graphicae, das ist die sinnreichsten und allerkünstlichsten Fragen und Antwort
Albert Linemann
1654German
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Della Geomantia. 1
von Abano Petrus
1549Italian
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Della Geomantia. 2
von Abano Petrus
1550Italian
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Della geomantia ... Parte I
Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān
1550NOT
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Demonomania degli Stregoni
Jean Bodin
1587NOT
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Denckwürdige Curiositäten Derer, So wohl Inn- als Ausländischer Abergläubischen Albertäten Als Der weiten Welt Allgemeinen Götzens
Johann Christoph Männling
1713German
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Der Fündling oder die moderne Kunstapotheose
Carl Wilhelm Salice-Contessa
1810German
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Der Heimliche und unerforschliche Natur-Kündiger, Oder: Accurate Beschreibung Von der Wünschel-Ruthe
Pierre Le Lorrain de Vallemont, Matthes Wille
1694German