The Spell, by William Fettes Douglas, 1864. © National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, The Bridgeman Art Library.

Magic Shows

Volume V, Number 3 | summer 2012

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Wonders Never Cease

Lewis H. Lapham

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

A Well Without a Bottom

John Crowley

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

Charles Dickens, the “Unparalleled Necromancer Rhia Rhama Rhoos.”

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

Do you believe in miracles?

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

Not the best and brightest.

The correlation between weather and witches.

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

“Here be dragons.”

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

“The last of the magicians.”

Death by potion.

A seance at the White House.

Voices In Time

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

Give It Time

1758 | England

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

Charts and Graphs

Transmutations

Lucky Charms

Symbology

The Curse of...

Spellbound and Gagged

For Better or Worse

Final Acts

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Ghost Whisperers

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

Contributors

Conversations

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

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