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
- Read free
Cabale misterieuse des 150 pseaumes du Roy David
1750French
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Certain astrological and astronomical figures
1410Latin
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Fragment of the Picatrix.
1300Latin
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Proceso y causa crim[ina]l da Ysabel de Montoia, mulata o castiza, llamada la Centalla, resid[en]te en la de Guajocingo, cass[a]da con don Gasp[a]r de la pena, de offi[cio] curandera
1652Spanish
The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake
2020
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
2011
The beautiful ones
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2017
The occult, witchcraft & magic
Christopher Dell
2016
The truth about witchcraft today
Scott Cunningham
1951
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Latest magic, being original conjuring tricks
Harry Houdini Collection, Hoffmann
1918
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Aureoli Philippi Theophrasti Bombasts von Hohenheim Paracelsi ... Opera, bücher vnd schrifften, so viel deren zur hand gebracht : vnd vor wenig jahren. mit vnd auss ihren glaubwürdigen eygener handgeschriebenen originalien collacioniert, vergliechen, verbessert : vnd durch Joannem Huserum Brisgoium in zehen vnderschiedliche theil, in truck gegeben. Jetzt von newem mit fliss vbersehen, auch mit etlichen bisshero vnbekandten tractaten gemehrt, vnd ... in zwen vnderschiedliche tomos vnnd theil gebracht ... sampt beyder theilen fleissigen vnd vollkommenen registern.
Johannes Huser, Paracelsus, Lazarus Zetzner
1616German
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De magorum daemonomania libri IV
Jean Bodin
1581Latin
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Magic and mysteries
Jacope Machiavelli
1922
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Ṭilism-i 'ijāz
transcriber Amrit La'l, Bisāṭ, translator, Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 129
1219Persian
Biblical and pagan societies
Frederick H. Cryer, Frederick Cryer, Marie-Louise Thomsen
2001
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[Miscellany of scientific treatises]
Arnaldus de Villanova, Geber, Ramon Llull
1450Latin
Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic
Alison Butler
2011
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Etherology, and the phreno-philosophy of mesmerism and magic eloquence:
J. Stanley Grimes, W. G Le Duc
1850
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Magic, white and black;
Franz Hartmann
1904
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Magic, white and black; or, The science of finite and infinite life, containing practical knowledge, instruction and hints for all sincere students of magic and occultism,
Lauron William De Laurence, Franz Hartmann
1910
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Studies in magic from Latin literature,
Euguene Tavenner
1916
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The mystic text book of "The Hindu occult chambers"; The magic and occultism of India; Hindu and Egyptian crystal gazing; The Hindu magic mirror
Lauron William De Laurence
1909
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Dyalogus singularissimus [et] perutilis viri occullentissimi D[omi]ni Simphoriani Lugdunen[sis] in magica[rum] artiu[m] destructionem
Symphorien Champier
1498Latin
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The true history of the ghost
John Henry Pepper
1890