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

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

A seance at the White House.

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

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

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

Do you believe in miracles?

Not the best and brightest.

Death by potion.

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

“The last of the magicians.”

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

“Here be dragons.”

The correlation between weather and witches.

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

Voices In Time

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Give It Time

1758 | England

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Charts and Graphs

Ghost Whisperers

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

The Curse of...

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

For Better or Worse

Lucky Charms

Symbology

Final Acts

Spellbound and Gagged

Transmutations

Contributors

Conversations

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

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