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

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

A Well Without a Bottom

John Crowley

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

Not the best and brightest.

“Here be dragons.”

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

Do you believe in miracles?

The correlation between weather and witches.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

Death by potion.

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

A seance at the White House.

“The last of the magicians.”

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

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

Voices In Time

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Give It Time

1758 | England

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

Charts and Graphs

Transmutations

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

Spellbound and Gagged

Ghost Whisperers

For Better or Worse

Lucky Charms

The Curse of...

Symbology

Final Acts

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Contributors

Conversations

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

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