Episode 160: Sleight of Hand (ad-free)
Added 2020-12-21 08:01:01 +0000 UTCOne of the oldest beliefs in human history is also the root of countless stories in our collective folklore. But to understand the power of those tales, we need to understand the people who brought them to life.
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Further Reading
- “'Sorceror' Hew Draper's Tower of London Graffiti: A Black Art Indeed,” The Guardian, April 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2010/apr/12/hew-draper-tower-of-london-graffiti.
- D.L. Ashliman, “Faust Legends,” Faust Legends, www.pitt.edu/~dash/faust.html.
- Frank L. Borchardt, “The Magus as Renaissance Man,” The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, 1990, pp. 57–76.
- Titus Burckhardt and William Stoddart, Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul (Fons Vitae, 2006).
- Richard Conniff, “Alchemy May Not Have Been the Pseudoscience We All Thought It Was,” Smithsonian.com, February 2014, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alchemy-may-not-been-pseudoscience-we-thought-it-was-180949430.
- Valerie I.J. Flint, The Rise of Magic: in Early Medieval Europe (Clarendon Press, 1991).
- “Johann Georg Faust Biography,” Magick Books Library, darkbooks.org/articles/Johann-Georg-Faust.html.
- Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
- Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (New York: New American Library, 1969).
- Melanie Christina Mohr, “Goethe and Zoroastrianism: The Eternal Battle between Good and Evil,” Translated by Charlotte Collins, Qantara.de, 2018, en.qantara.de/content/goethe-and-zoroastrianism-the-eternal-battle-between-good-and-evil.
- Leo Ruickbie, Faustus: the Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician (History, 2009).
- “How One Man's Love of Urine Led to the Discovery of Phosphorus,” Gizmodo, May 2014, gizmodo.com/how-one-man-s-love-of-urine-led-to-the-discovery-of-pho-1582537526.
- Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science (Columbia Univ. Press, 1970).
