The History of Magic:
From Reginald Scot to Penn & Teller
The Reformation,
Counter-Reformation, and religious wars in Europe
The Witch Trials of the 1500s
Or how Reginald Scot inadvertently published the first book of magic
The Discovery of Witchcraft
James the VI and I: Author of Daemonologie and creator of the King James Bible
The Art of Iuggling and Hocus Pocus Junior
We're going to skip ahead two centuries to the 1800s, and Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
From Houdin we get to the Golden Age of Traveling Magicians
(Not a real term - just one I made up for this presentation)
Harry Kellar
Alexander Herrmann
Howard Thurston
Chung Ling Soo
John Nevil Maskelyne
and George Cooke
The Bullet Catch
Houdini
Great Magicians of Vaudeville and post-Vaudeville
Dai Vernon
Max Malini
Spiritualism
and
Magicians as Skeptics
A long line of skeptics sprout up around the magic community
The Amazing Randi
Uri Gellar
Side Jaunt to
Harry Anderson
and
The Amazing Johnathan
Just had to plug two of my favorites.
The State of Magic Today
David Blaine
Dynamo
Penn & Teller: Fool Us
