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

W.B. Yeats, Magus

Jamie James

Stage Light

Andrew McConnell Stott

Very Superstitious

Colin Dickey

Healing Spirits

Daniel Mason

A Well Without a Bottom

John Crowley

Map

Acts of Magic

Miscellany

Death by potion.

A seance at the White House.

“The last of the magicians.”

Orson Welles looks for magic on the stage and screen.

Prospero and Auden on books and magic.

The correlation between weather and witches.

P.T. Barnum defends his human cannonball.

Niels Bohr’s lucky horseshoe.

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

How to choose a magician’s stage name.

“Here be dragons.”

Not the best and brightest.

Alchemy and Nobel Prizes.

Do you believe in miracles?

Hammurabi’s sorcery law.

Alexander the Great follows his dreams.

Voices In Time

Axis of Evil

1484 | Rome

Witness Credibility

1692 | Salem

Raising the Dead

c. 1510 | Dôle

Ghost Dance

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Revisionist History

1886 | Belgium

From Ashes

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

Before the Fall

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Patient, Heal Thyself

c. 1891 | Boston

Cat Power

1920 | Ulthar

Necessary Evils

c. 450 BC | China

Strange Is the Madness

1894 | Izumo

Driving the Point Home

1897 | England

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Give It Time

1758 | England

Bird Call

c. 1200 | Assisi

Not on the Books

2008 | New York City

Win-Win Situation

69 | Alexandria

Job Requirements

c. 300 | Syria

Under a Spell

1844 | Tynemouth

Anamorphosis

1927 | Moscow

Alchemy By Other Means

1786 | Philadelphia

Tipping Point

1645 | Holland

Bristling into Swine

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Laws of Nature

1704 | London

Accounting Standards

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Margin of Error

1519 | Tlaxcala

Rapper’s Delight

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Phantom Rising

1842 | Brussels

Disenchantment

1917 | Munich

Waiting for Greenspan

1996 | Washington, DC

Receiving a Tutorial

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Feeding Frenzy

c. 405 BC | Athens

The Master’s Tools

c. 170 | Athens

True Blood

1732 | Hungary

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1829 | Baltimore

More Questions Than Answers

c. 1756 | West Africa

While the World Is Full of Troubles

1886 | Sligo

Arranging a Deal

c. 1590 | London

Corpse Orders

c. 700 | China

On Better Authority

1529 | Mexico

Charts and Graphs

Final Acts

For Better or Worse

Spellbound and Gagged

So You’ve Been Accused of Witchcraft...

Lucky Charms

Magicians, Sorcerers, and Seers

The Curse of...

Symbology

Transmutations

Ghost Whisperers

Contributors

Conversations

Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

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