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
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Marinos Sariyannis
2025
- Read free
The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema
Pao-chen Tang
2025
- Read free
The Chain of Things
Eric Downing
2018
- Read free
The Mythology in our Language
Giovanni da Col, Stephan Palmié, Ludwig Wittgenstein
2017
- Read free
The Norse Sorceress
Sophie Bønding, Leszek Gardeła, Peter Pentz
2024
- Read free
A history of magic and experimental science
Lynn Thorndike
1923
- Read free
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
James George Frazer
1890
- Read free
Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe
Letizia Vezzosi
2025
- Read free
Techniken der Täuschung
Katharina Rein
2020German
- Read free
Esoteric Catholicism / Esoterischer Katholizismus
Viktoria Vitanova-Kerber, Helmut Zander
2025
- Read free
Gypsy sorcery and fortune telling
Charles Godfrey Leland
1891
- Read free
Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium
Edward Keller, Nicola Masciandaro, Eugene Thacker
2012
- Read free
The book of talismans, amulets and zodiacal gems
William Thomas Pavitt, Kate Pavitt
1914
- Read free
The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber
Johann Rudolf Glauber, Christopher Packe
1694
- Read free
Traditional African religions in South African law
T. W Bennett
2014
- Read free
Witch, Warlock, and Magician
W. H. Davenport Adams
1889
- Read free
A Tale of Two Capitalisms
Supritha Rajan
2023
- Read free
Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context
Marcela A Garcia Probert, Petra M Sijpesteijn
2022
- Read free
Magic in Popular Narratives
Jan Kajfosz
2021
- Read free
Geschichte der talismannischen Kunst von ihrem Ursprunge, Fortgange und Verbreitung. Ein Beitrag zu den geheimen und höhern Kenntnissen der Menschen
Peter Friedrich Arpe
1792German
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Performing Deception
Brian Rappert
2022
- Read free
Freemasonry and the Orient
De Poli, Barbara | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-
2019
- Read free
Daimonologia, or, A treatise of spirits
Jacques de Daillon
1723
Witchcraft
Marion Gibson
2018