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

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

A Well Without a Bottom

John Crowley

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

Death by potion.

The correlation between weather and witches.

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

Not the best and brightest.

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

Do you believe in miracles?

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

“Here be dragons.”

A seance at the White House.

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

“The last of the magicians.”

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

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

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

Voices In Time

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Give It Time

1758 | England

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Charts and Graphs

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

The Curse of...

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Lucky Charms

For Better or Worse

Spellbound and Gagged

Transmutations

Ghost Whisperers

Symbology

Final Acts

Contributors

Conversations

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

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