Source books · Grimoires and ritual magic
The Grand Grimoire
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Grimoires and ritual magic
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
- Public attention
- Notable Wikipedia has an article about it in 8 languages.
Read it
- in French ↗ esotericarchives.com checked September 11, 2026
From Wikipedia
The Grand Grimoire, also known as Le Dragon Rouge or The Red Dragon, is a black magic goetic grimoire. Different editions date the book to 1521, 1522 or 1421. Owen Davies suggests 1702 is when the first edition may have been created and a Bibliothèque bleue version of the text may have been published in 1750. The 19th-century French occultist Éliphas Lévi considered the contemporary edition of Le Dragon Rouge to be a counterfeit of a true, older Grand Grimoire.
From the Wikipedia article Grand Grimoire, revision 1361872292, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q2469208: “grimoire of magic, also known as The Red Dragon”.
In this study
In the chronology, among the works with no securely known author.
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