Stories
- Article
How the magician’s assistant creates the illusion
Without breaking the spell, performer Naomi Paxton reveals the subtle ways the magician’s assistant helps the audience to keep believing.
- Interview
Inside the minds of A R Hopwood and Honor Beddard
The curators of ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ reveal the stories behind the exhibits, and the intriguing truths the show confronts us with.
- Article
Western magic’s fascination with the foreigner
Could modern magic shows be perpetuating damaging cultural stereotypes? Shelley Saggar shows how ‘exotic’ costumes and imagery are far from harmless fun.
- Article
Dynamo on the past, present and future of magic
The magician takes a tour and shares stories of history and inspiration.
Catalogue
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Magicians leaving the wood where they successfully performed incantations. Etching by P.Sandby and E. Rooker, 1763, after J. Collins.
Collins, John, approximately 1725-1758 or 1759.Date: [1763?]Reference: 562692i- Books
Magicians, theologians and doctors : studies in folk-medicine and folk-lore as reflected in the rabbinical responsa, 12th-19th centuries / [Hirsch Jakob Zimmels].
Zimmels, H. J. (Hirsch Jakob)Date: 1952- Books
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A compleat history of magick, Sorcery, and witchcraft; containing, I. The most Authentick and best attested relations of Magicians, Sorcerers, Witches, Apparitions, Spectres, Ghosts, Daemons, and other preternatural Appearances. II. A Collection of several very scarce and valuable tryals of Witches, particularly that famous one, of the witches of Warboyse. III. An Account of the first Rise of Magicians and Witches; shewing the Contracts they make with the Devil, and what Methods they take to accomplish their Infernal Designs. IV. A full Confutation of all the Arguments that have ever been produced against the Belief of Apparitions, Witches, &c. with a Judgment concerning Spirits, by the late Learned Mr. John Locke. ...
Boulton, Richard, 1676 or 1677-Date: [1715]-16- Books
Magic and magicians in the Greco-Roman world / Matthew W. Dickie.
Dickie, Matthew.Date: 2001- Books
Twins as magicians and healing gods : twin myths / Isobel Stevenson.
Stevenson, Isobel.Date: 1941
