EMPORIA (KSNT) – A traveling exhibit is being held at the William Allen White Library, presenting the Renaissance science, magic and medicine in the world of “Harry Potter.” The exhibit is being held ...
Doctor Faustus was a real person—a conduit, said some (including Martin Luther) for diabolic magic. Others in early 16th-century Germany dismissed him as a “vagabond,” a man who played “jugglers’ ...
Dr. Faustus in his Study. Engraving based on the original painting by Rembrandt, of the necromancer or astrologer who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. (Print ...
On any given night in Chicago right now, you can find magicians dazzling audiences in an elegant underground Loop parlor, a rehabbed Rogers Park vaudeville theater or an Andersonville cabaret hidden ...