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.
- Article
How to play with people who are better than you
It’s frustrating to lose a game to the same player every time. But help is at hand. Discover the ways you can make a game respond dynamically to participants so everyone has a chance of winning.
- Article
The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
Catalogue
- Books
Magic spells and formulae : Aramaic incantations of late antiquity / [edited] by Joseph Naveh, Shaul Shaked.
Date: [1993], ©1993- Books
Art of the Grimoire : an illustrated history of magic books and spells / Owen Davies.
Davies, Owen, 1969-Date: [2023]- Books
Dictionary of ancient magic words and spells : from Abraxas to Zoar / Claude Lecouteux ; translated by Jon E. Graham.
Lecouteux, ClaudeDate: 2015- Books
Garden spells : the magic of herbs, trees and flowers / Claire Nahmad ; illustrations by Camilla Charnock.
Nahmad, Claire.Date: 1994- Pictures
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A conjurer casting spells with his wand and fire surrounded by a kneeling man and demons within the magic circle. Engraving by J. Brown after W.M. Craig, 1813.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Date: 1st May 1813Reference: 37887i