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

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

A Well Without a Bottom

John Crowley

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

The correlation between weather and witches.

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

A seance at the White House.

Not the best and brightest.

“Here be dragons.”

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

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

“The last of the magicians.”

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

Death by potion.

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

Do you believe in miracles?

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

Voices In Time

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Give It Time

1758 | England

Charts and Graphs

Final Acts

Transmutations

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

Symbology

The Curse of...

For Better or Worse

Spellbound and Gagged

Lucky Charms

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Ghost Whisperers

Contributors

Conversations

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

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