Resources
Below is a list of digital resources on magic and rituals.
Databases on Ancient Magical Studies
French database which deals with a collection of magical names “voces magicae” found in ancient magical and ritual texts.
Catalogue containing British curses including photos and drawings of the tablets as well as texts, translations and general information.
Database created in connection of the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project by the University of Chicago.
PDF versions of articles written in the Ephesia Grammata mostly in French.
Portal created by the University of Würzburg containing Hittite cuneiform texts as well as a vast collection of Hittite incantation rituals.
Database of Coptic, Greek and Demotic Magical Texts from Egypt meant to facilitate research of ancient magical, alchemical, astrological and other ritual.
Online resource of the Greek magical papyri provided by the University of Heidelberg.
Comparable/Successive project to the Campbell Bonner Gems Database.
Online database which contains all published curse tablets provided by the University of Hamburg.
Database containing magical and ritual manuscripts. The majority of these originate from Egypt.
Projects
Project by the University of Liège which investigates ancient medicine from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Useful for research of iatromagical papyri (magical texts meant for healing.)
Project by Ca’Foscari University of Venice which looks at the interaction between early Jewish and Christian magical traditions.
Spanish Online Dictionary of terms found in Greek Magical Papyri. The website was created by Luis Muñoz Delgado in 2001 as Annex V of the Diccionario Griego-Español.
Thematic Network associated with the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE). Specialises in esoteric phenomena of the ancient period and has a specific section for resources on magic.
This project if by the University of Würzburg and it dedicates itself to the interdisciplinary comaprative study of magical traditions in West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity.
An organisation which focuses on facilitating the communication and exchange among scholars with an interest in the study of magic.
Project from the University of Chicago which focuses on working on re-editions of Greek, Demotic and Coptic papyri.
Updated: 14 January 2026