Frizzo — Master Magician
One of the most ingenious exponents of magical art was, perhaps, Enrico Longone, whom the world best knew as Frizzo—reputed to be the greatest Italian conjuror of modern times.
By Harry Houdini
Dissertation on Cagliostro
Barring Napoleon the Great, no man has probably had more posthumous biographers than that genius of Magic, Mysticism and Masonry who starred under the pseudonym of "M. le Comte de Cagliostro."
By G.G. Laurens
The Life and Five Years Before the Public, of ROBERT NICKLE, the World's Prestidigitateur
By this time most of you have heard of me and my wonderful doings, and would like to know who I am, what I am, and where I came from.
By Robert Nickle
Wyman The Wizard
One of The Financially Successful Magicians of The Historic Gift Show Era
by Harry Houdini
Belzoni
Magician, Barber, Monk, Strong-man, Explorer, Egyptologist, Author and finally World-Famed Savant
By Harry Houdini and Henry R. Evans
Houdini On Exposure
From an ethical standpoint the public exposure of magical effects is wrong, and our utmost endeavors should be exerted toward its prevention. The magical societies of the world are uniformly against it, and they can't all be wrong.
By Harry Houdini
Robert Heller's Brother Alive
Personal Recollections of His First American Appearance
By M.H. Levett
Katterfelto
One of the Most Interesting Characters in the History of Magic. Magician, Quack Doctor Pseudo-Philosopher.
By Harry Houdini
Hocus Pocus
Incantations, exclamations they were at first; nay, we to-day must give them a better name: Applied psychology!
By G. G. Laurens
What Magicians Were Expected to Know in 1652
The following summary of "What Every Magician Ought to Know," is from "The Seven Books of Magic," printed in London in 1652, and bound in one volume. This was known as the "Black Book", and its possession was forbidden by both Church and State.
PHILADELPHIA
A Historical Seventeenth Century Magician
By Harry Houdini
BRESLAW
One of the Great Mystifiers of the Eighteenth Century who toured Great Britain for more than two score years consecutively.
By Harry Houdini
Signor Blitz Before Abraham Lincoln
The episode occurred at a time, when the affairs of the American nation were fast approaching a climax. The crisis of the three days battle at Gettysburg was hanging in the balance on July 3, 1863. George Morgan, an eminent financier journeyed toward the White House, on a special mission to impart to President Lincoln an emergency plan…
By Oscar S. Teale
The Secret of One Man’s Success
The principle of concentration of thought by the use of mechanical device like a shining stone or crystal—meant in my fortune and my well-being.
Mahdi at Magifest
Why would I ever visit Columbus, Ohio in the middle of the winter?
Mahdi’s New Beginning
Hadlen interviews Mahdi The Magician on The Magician’s Code Podcast. We discuss Creativity, the World of Magic; Responsibility of Magic, Juan Tamariz, David Copperfield, David Blaine, Lu Chen, Ascanio, Magic Books and much more…
Resurrecting The Pitch Book
The books themselves are designed very curiously, with just enough valuable information to fulfill their stated purpose but always hinting, teasing and pitching further. Virtually every page of every single chapter leads to a product or service.
Why Astrology?
Scarcely a day passes that we do not see some person going through life a slave to circumstances, when astrological precaution would have saved them many a pitfall, changed their sorrow to happiness and their failures to success. Many fortunes have been lost to thousands. People who have not been able to see the opportunity until it has passed by.
By Claude Alexander Conlin
Pisces Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
Pisces, The Fishes, is the last Sign of the Zodiac and symbolic of the completion of Earth life and experience, and of the time when labors can be permanently laid down.
Aquarius Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
Aquarius, The Water Bearer is the Eleventh Sign of the Zodiac and the most important Sign of the Twelve;- the most spiritual, the most difficult to understand, and the hardest one to live up to in its higher vibrations.