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

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

A Well Without a Bottom

John Crowley

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

Do you believe in miracles?

The correlation between weather and witches.

Not the best and brightest.

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

“Here be dragons.”

A seance at the White House.

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

“The last of the magicians.”

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

Death by potion.

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

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

Voices In Time

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Give It Time

1758 | England

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

Charts and Graphs

Ghost Whisperers

Lucky Charms

The Curse of...

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

For Better or Worse

Final Acts

Symbology

Spellbound and Gagged

Transmutations

Contributors

Conversations

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

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