The meanings of magic : from the Bible to Buffalo Bill /
Wygant, Amy.
New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Magic and the millennium / David S. Katz -- Showman or shaman? The acts of a biblical prophet / Mark Brummitt -- Curse tablets and binding spells in the Greco-Roman world / John G. Gager -- Magic, healing and early Christianity : consumption and competition / Justin Meggitt -- All the devils : Port-Royal and pedagogy in seventeenth-century France / Nicholas Hammond -- The magic of French culture : transforming 'savages' into French Catholics in seventeenth-century France / Sara E. Melzer -- A magus of the north? Professor John Ferguson and his library / David Weston -- The golden fleece and Harry Potter / Amy Wygant -- Cowboys and magicians : Buffalo Bill, Houdini and real magic / Ronald G. Walters -- The search for a new dimension : surrealism and magic / Alyce Mahon.
Magic.
Popular culture.
Magic