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

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

A seance at the White House.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

Death by potion.

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

Not the best and brightest.

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

Do you believe in miracles?

The correlation between weather and witches.

“The last of the magicians.”

“Here be dragons.”

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

Voices In Time

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

Give It Time

1758 | England

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

Charts and Graphs

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Ghost Whisperers

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

Lucky Charms

Spellbound and Gagged

For Better or Worse

Symbology

Transmutations

Final Acts

The Curse of...

Contributors

Conversations

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

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