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

A Well Without a Bottom

John Crowley

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

The correlation between weather and witches.

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

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

A seance at the White House.

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

“Here be dragons.”

“The last of the magicians.”

Do you believe in miracles?

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

Death by potion.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

Not the best and brightest.

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

Voices In Time

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Give It Time

1758 | England

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Charts and Graphs

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

Final Acts

Spellbound and Gagged

Lucky Charms

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Symbology

For Better or Worse

Ghost Whisperers

Transmutations

The Curse of...

Contributors

Conversations

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

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