Conjurers

Fleischman was raised in San Diego and, after leaving high school, began touring the country doing a magic act with a friend as the Mirthful Conjurers in vaudeville stage shows in night clubs between 1938-41. in 1939 he wrote his first book on magic, Between Cocktails, selling all rights for $50.

Archive 2010-03-01 Steve 2010

Fleischman was raised in San Diego and, after leaving high school, began touring the country doing a magic act with a friend as the Mirthful Conjurers in vaudeville stage shows in night clubs between 1938-41. in 1939 he wrote his first book on magic, Between Cocktails, selling all rights for $50.

Sid Fleischman (1920-2010) Steve 2010

Conjurers and magicians have long known how to distract people so they miss a move that should be obvious.

Distracting Miss Daisy 2008

Conjurers and magicians have long known how to distract people so they miss a move that should be obvious.

Distracting Miss Daisy 2008

Conjurers and snake charmers sought to attract the attention, and the baksheesh, of the hotel guests; vendors of flowers and trinkets raised their voices in discordant appeal.

The Mummy Case Peters, Elizabeth 1985

Conjurers, mountebanks, itinerant quacks, and other adventurers operated throughout Europe, and were found at every country fair and _fete_ displaying the wonders of the invisible agent by giving shocks and professing to cure all imaginable ailments.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

Sorcerers and Conjurers; and discovers all those who had any hand in it: whereupon they were all apprehended; some sent to the _Tower_, others to _Newgate_.

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Wizards, Conjurers, and such like horrible Bodies.

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 Maximillian E. [Commentator] Novak

Conjurers and fortune-tellers were by law forbidden to frequent the houses of civil or military officers under the pretence of prophesying impending national calamities or successes, but the prohibition was not understood to prevent them telling fortunes and casting nativities by the stars in the usual manner.

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

Conjurers dealt in illusion and all illusion was retrograde.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 Various