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
- 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
De praestigiis daemonum, et incantationibus ac ueneficijs
Joannes Oporinus, Johann Weyer
1563Latin
- Read free
The Talisman; a tale for boys
1829
- Read free
Performanz und Imagination in der Oralkultur Südosteuropas
Walter Puchner
2017German
Using the runes
D. Jason Cooper, Daniel Cooper
1987
- Read free
An Hermetical and philosophic manuduction
1797
Of water and the spirit
Malidoma Patrice Somé
1994
- Read free
Liber Piccatriciae
1750French
- Read free
Heptameron des Ludowici Zypriani, de Mongold Arcanum Secretum, die Schaetze zu heben
Ludowici Zypriani
1750German
- Read free
Tractatus posthumus Jani Jacobi Boissardi de divinatione & magicis praestigiis,
Jean Jacques Boissard, Johann Theodor De Bry, Hieronymus Galler, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Newbattle Abbey Library
1615Latin
- Read free
Medicine man's pocket notebook, circa 1700-1850
1700Sanskrit
- Read free
Des sciences occultes, ou, Essai sur la magie, les prodiges et les miracles
Salverte, Eusèbe
1856French
- Read free
La filosophia naturale di molti celebri et antichissimi
1721French
- Read free
[Seals of the planets]
1575German
- Read free
De l'utilité des voyages, et de l'avantage que la recherche des antiquitez procure aux sçavans
Baudelot de Dairval, Charles-César
1727French
- Read free
Histoire critique des pratiques superstitieuses qui ont séduit les peuples, & embarrassé les savans
Pierre Lebrun
1750French
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Histoire critique des pratiques superstitieuses, qui ont seduit les peuples et embarrassé les sçavans. Avec la methode et les principes pour discerner les effets naturels d'avec ceux qui ne le sont pas
Pierre Lebrun
1750French
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Aur. Philip. Theoph. Paracelsi Bombast ab Hohenheim ... Opera omnia medico-chemico-chirurgica, tribus voluminibus comprehensa.
Paracelsus
1658Italian
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Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire de la jonglerie, dans lequel on démontre les phénomènes du mesmérisme
Noël Retz
1784French
- Read free
A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2)
Lynn Thorndike
Date unknown
- Read free
A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 2 (of 2)
Lynn Thorndike
Date unknown
- Read free
A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
Algernon Blackwood
Date unknown
- Read free
Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee Magic
Herbert Quick
Date unknown
- Read free
Balder the Beautiful, Volume I.
James George Frazer
Date unknown
- Read free
Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs
Anatole France, Charles Robinson, Peter Wright
Date unknown