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

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

A Well Without a Bottom

John Crowley

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

Not the best and brightest.

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

The correlation between weather and witches.

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

Death by potion.

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

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

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

Do you believe in miracles?

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

A seance at the White House.

“Here be dragons.”

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

“The last of the magicians.”

Voices In Time

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Give It Time

1758 | England

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Charts and Graphs

Symbology

Final Acts

Transmutations

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

Spellbound and Gagged

Lucky Charms

Ghost Whisperers

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

The Curse of...

For Better or Worse

Contributors

Conversations

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

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