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

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

A Well Without a Bottom

John Crowley

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

Not the best and brightest.

The correlation between weather and witches.

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

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

“The last of the magicians.”

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

“Here be dragons.”

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

Do you believe in miracles?

A seance at the White House.

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

Death by potion.

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

Voices In Time

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Give It Time

1758 | England

Charts and Graphs

Final Acts

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

Transmutations

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Ghost Whisperers

Lucky Charms

The Curse of...

For Better or Worse

Symbology

Spellbound and Gagged

Contributors

Conversations

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

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