#victorian magic

[lailoken]

Sunday:

‘The Shapes Familiar to the Spirits of the Sun’

‘The Fumigation of Sunday’

‘Conjuration of Sunday’

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Manuscript V.b.26, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC:

‘The Book of Oberon’

[arcane-offerings]

Alison Butler, Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Tradition (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Hardcover edition. 225 pages. https://www.ebay.com/itm/254720635516

[cayleighsa]

Today I ended up reading a really interesting article called “The Magic Scene in Britain in 1905” by Edwin A. Dawes, which somehow had a jump scare. I got to this bit about an American magician called The Great Lafayette:

I thought that sounded kind of yikes so flipped through to find fig.13, and was met with:

Made me jump *and* didn’t really answer any of the questions I had!