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

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

“Here be dragons.”

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

The correlation between weather and witches.

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

Not the best and brightest.

Death by potion.

Do you believe in miracles?

“The last of the magicians.”

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

A seance at the White House.

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

Voices In Time

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Give It Time

1758 | England

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

Charts and Graphs

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Lucky Charms

For Better or Worse

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

Transmutations

Final Acts

Ghost Whisperers

Symbology

The Curse of...

Spellbound and Gagged

Contributors

Conversations

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

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