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

A Well Without a Bottom

John Crowley

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

“The last of the magicians.”

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

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

Do you believe in miracles?

The correlation between weather and witches.

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

A seance at the White House.

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

Not the best and brightest.

Death by potion.

“Here be dragons.”

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

Voices In Time

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Give It Time

1758 | England

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Charts and Graphs

Ghost Whisperers

Final Acts

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

The Curse of...

For Better or Worse

Lucky Charms

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Transmutations

Spellbound and Gagged

Symbology

Contributors

Conversations

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

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