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

A Well Without a Bottom

John Crowley

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

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

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

The correlation between weather and witches.

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

“Here be dragons.”

“The last of the magicians.”

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

Do you believe in miracles?

Not the best and brightest.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

Death by potion.

A seance at the White House.

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

Voices In Time

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Give It Time

1758 | England

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

Charts and Graphs

Symbology

The Curse of...

Final Acts

Spellbound and Gagged

Transmutations

For Better or Worse

Lucky Charms

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

Ghost Whisperers

Contributors

Conversations

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

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