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Voices In Time

1894 | Izumo

Strange Is the Madness

The evil goblin foxes of Japan.More

Voices In Time

c. 170 | Athens

The Master’s Tools

The original sorcerer’s apprentice.More

Voices In Time

c. 450 BC | China

Necessary Evils

Ghosts and the state.More

Voices In Time

c. 700 | China

Corpse Orders

Following the dead to hidden jewels.More

Voices In Time

c. 1200 | Assisi

Bird Call

The stigmatization of St. Francis of Assisi.More

Voices In Time

1704 | London

Laws of Nature

Isaac Newton on the line between science and the occult.More

Voices In Time

c. 1510 | Dôle

Raising the Dead

A how-to guide for resurrections.More

Voices In Time

1829 | Baltimore

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Edgar Allen Poe laments the march of science.More

Voices In Time

c. 1590 | London

Arranging a Deal

Marlowe’s Faustus gives himself over to magic.More

Voices In Time

c. 1190 BC | Aeaea

Bristling into Swine

Odysseus encounters Circe’s magic.More

Voices In Time

1758 | England

Give It Time

Hume considers man’s inclination to the marvelous.More

Voices In Time

1692 | Salem

Witness Credibility

Cotton Mather on what constitutes evidence of witchcraft.More

Voices In Time

1484 | Rome

Axis of Evil

Innocent VIII expands the Inquisition.More

Voices In Time

69 | Alexandria

Win-Win Situation

Vespasian’s healing touch.More

Voices In Time

1519 | Tlaxcala

Margin of Error

Questionable advice from a Tlaxcalan soothsayer.More

Voices In Time

1996 | Washington, DC

Waiting for Greenspan

Words from a financial Wizard of Oz.More

Voices In Time

c. 1756 | West Africa

More Questions Than Answers

Olaudah Equiano marvels at his circumstances.More

Voices In Time

1529 | Mexico

On Better Authority

Old world vs. new world medicine.More

Voices In Time

1920 | Ulthar

Cat Power

H.P. Lovecraft protects the felines of Ulthar.More

Voices In Time

1844 | Tynemouth

Under a Spell

Harriet Martineau explores mesmerism.More

Voices In Time

c. 1690 | Sichuan

Ghost Dance

Pu Songling fights off a spirit.More

Voices In Time

1865 | Bridgeport, CT

Rapper’s Delight

P.T. Barnum exposes the tricks of the trade.More

Voices In Time

c. 1891 | Boston

Patient, Heal Thyself

Mary Baker Eddy reveals the incontrovertible truth of Christian Science.More

Voices In Time

1732 | Hungary

True Blood

Hungarian vampires gone wild.More

Voices In Time

1842 | Brussels

Phantom Rising

Emily Brontë looks out at the magic in the moonlight.More

Voices In Time

1886 | Belgium

Revisionist History

Helena Blavatsky insists magic and history are inextricably linked.More

Voices In Time

c. 540 BC | Babylon

Before the Fall

For Babylon, the writing is on the wall.More

Voices In Time

c. 300 | Syria

Job Requirements

On the contradictions of the gods.More

Voices In Time

1786 | Philadelphia

Alchemy By Other Means

“The evils of paper money have no end.”More

Voices In Time

1927 | Moscow

Anamorphosis

Gazing at mirrors in Moscow.More

Voices In Time

1897 | England

Driving the Point Home

Bram Stoker slays a vampire.More

Voices In Time

1645 | Holland

Tipping Point

René Descartes grasps the root of wonder.More

Voices In Time

c. 1145 | Byzantium

Accounting Standards

Fact-checking Byzantine astrologers.More

Voices In Time

c. 1775 | Pennsylvania

Let Us Now Praise a Famous Man

A tribute to the useful wizardry of Benjamin Franklin.More

Voices In Time

1917 | Munich

Disenchantment

“To be superseded scientifically is not our fate, but our goal.”More

Voices In Time

1886 | Sligo

While the World Is Full of Troubles

W.B. Yeats goes walking with the fairies.More

Voices In Time

c. 405 BC | Athens

Feeding Frenzy

The attack of the Maenads.More

Voices In Time

2008 | New York City

Not on the Books

A Saudi Arabian witch hunt.More

Voices In Time

1982 | Beaufort, SC

Receiving a Tutorial

John Berendt gets a lesson in South Carolina folk magic.More

Voices In Time

c. 1177 | Neyshabur

From Ashes

In search of the phoenix.More

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