projector. There is also the magic of speech acts, not just, "With this ring I thee wed" but "Hoc est corpus meum", which inspired the phrase "hocus pocus" in mockery of the "trick of transubstantiation". Warner discusses the magic of things (such as rings and carpets) as fetishes, and cites Lorraine Daston's insight (in Things That Talk, 2004) into idols (from the Greek eidolon), illusions that are misleading and fraudulent. Daston contrasts idols with evidence, but notes that the two often blend together; forensic exhibits may be fabricated or, on the other hand, become powerful fetishes and take on the idol's ability to haunt. Warner compares these "objects with uncanny life" to Winnicott's transitional objects and to the quasi-magical functioning of her BlackBerry, Satnav, and iPod. And then there is the magic of Freud. Warner suggests that when Freud called his couch an ottoman and covered it with a Persian carpet, he may have been, "consciously or unconsciously", creating an Oriental setting for the first psychoanalytical talking cures, "a form of storytelling, with the roles reversed (it is the narrator who needs to be healed, not the listener-Sultan)". Freud, who kept a statue of the Hindu god Vishnu on his desk, was very much an Orientalist. Orientalism looms large in Stranger Magic. "The Orient in the Arabian Nights has its own Orient", says Warner, also quoting Amit Chaudhuri: "The Orient, in modernity, is not only a European invention but also an Oriental one". Fairy tales had always had what Warner