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

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

A Well Without a Bottom

John Crowley

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

Not the best and brightest.

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

Do you believe in miracles?

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

The correlation between weather and witches.

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

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

“The last of the magicians.”

Death by potion.

“Here be dragons.”

A seance at the White House.

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

Voices In Time

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Give It Time

1758 | England

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Charts and Graphs

Final Acts

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

Symbology

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

The Curse of...

Lucky Charms

For Better or Worse

Spellbound and Gagged

Transmutations

Ghost Whisperers

Contributors

Conversations

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

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