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

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

The correlation between weather and witches.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

Do you believe in miracles?

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

“The last of the magicians.”

“Here be dragons.”

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

Death by potion.

A seance at the White House.

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

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

Not the best and brightest.

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

Voices In Time

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Give It Time

1758 | England

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Charts and Graphs

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Ghost Whisperers

Final Acts

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

Transmutations

Spellbound and Gagged

Lucky Charms

Symbology

The Curse of...

For Better or Worse

Contributors

Conversations

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

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