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  James Randi Educational Foundation — An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
The art of seeming to perform genuine magic is known as conjuring, and the artist is known as a conjuror.
Where the papyrus relates that the same feat was performed with an ox, it may be simply a bit of hyperbole——not entirely unheard of in descriptions of conjuring——and quite likely to creep into the story.
But conjuring is not magic and should not be mistaken for a supernatural performance, even when the conjuror chooses to misrepresent his abilities, as occasionally happens.
www.randi.org /encyclopedia/conjuring_conjuror.html   (630 words)

  
 EverQuest II Ability List - Conjuror
An augmentation cast on the conjuror's minion that places them into an offensive stance, increasing their offensive melee skills, attack speed, and intelligence, at the cost of decreased defense and parry.
Whenever the conjuror casts an elemental spell, their minion will deal elemental damage to the next enemy they strike, and deal elemental damage to all nearby enemies of that encounter as well.
Engulfs the conjuror's summoned minion in a blazing aura for a limited duration, dealing heat damage every time the minion attacks or is attacked in melee.
www.eq2ref.com /abilities/index.php?class=Conjuror&orderby=Master   (2888 words)

  
 EverQuest II Ability List - Conjuror
An augmentation for the conjuror's summoned minion that grants it a chance to decrease an enemy's elemental and magic resist every time it attacks or receives damage.
An augmentation cast on the conjuror's minion that places them into an defensive stance, increasing their trauma resistance, hate generation, and granting them a replenishing ward, at the cost of decreased attack speed.
An augmentation placed by the conjuror on target ally that grants a chance to deal heat damage with every attack and place an impairment on the opponent.
www.eq2ref.com /abilities/index.php?class=Conjuror&orderby=Master   (2888 words)

  
 Nox - ESCMag Review
Your first decision is to choose from one of three classes: the wizard, the warrior or the conjuror.
While playing as the conjuror, you often use the charm creature spell (which the wizard cannot use) to enchant a creature.
The conjuror has an array of spells equal to about half of the wizard’s inventory, so he isn’t just a better wizard.
www.escmag.com /v5/reviews/review.cfm?rv=169   (1199 words)

  
 Reginald Scot's collection of magical texts
When the conjuror exerciseth this office, let him be abroad, let him be warie and standing on his feete; if his cap be on his head, he will cause all his dooings to be bewraied, which if he doo not, the exorcist shalbe deceived by Amaymon in everie thing.
For the author heereof beginneth, as though all the cunning of conjurors were derived and fetcht from the planetarie motions, and true course of the stars, celestiall bodies, andc.
There is no feare (they saie) that such a spirit will hurt the conjuror: for he can sinne no more, as being in the meane state betweene good and evill, and as yet in the state of satisfaction.
www.esotericarchives.com /solomon/scot16.htm   (11935 words)

  
 NOX Demo Info
Conjurors have access to more than 30 spells and can cast and control creatures, as well as custom design traps.
The full version of Nox feature threes character classes, the Conjuror, the Warrior and the Wizard.
Driven by an epic story, you'll progress up skill levels and learn three schools of combat: the way of the Warrior, the knowledge of Conjuror, and the disciplines of the Wizard.
www.cheatindex.com /downloads/nox.html   (794 words)

  
 Conjuration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As an evocation, a conjuration is the act of summoning one or more spirits with a predetermined purpose by means of a charm.
The belief in similarly-minded conjurers also exists in belief systems in which magic is not inherently evil, although in these cultures these "fl magicians" are not the rule and have opposition among more traditional magicians.
In the not too distant past, conjurors where suspected of being capable of using magic power to create their entertaining illusions and even cast spells.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conjuration   (592 words)

  
 The Conjuror's "Shuffle" - Magic Tricks (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Nearly all good conjurors preface their card tricks with an exhibition of shuffling, a process always conducted in the showiest manner possible, although, by the time it is completed, it is possible that the position of the cards has not been interfered with in the least.
They are spread along the conjuror's arms, and over his chest, and are invariably gathered in again without a single one being allowed to fall.
In order to deceive the public, one must not be particular about the means employed; but here it is a question of one conjuror setting up to be vastly superior to others, the facts of the case being precisely the other way.
www.magicbunny.net.cob-web.org:8888 /tricks/s179a.php   (1145 words)

  
 The Meaning of Spectacle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
They include homely conjurors, ordinary stage business, pleasing stage sets, modest machines, all, however, galvanised by the moments of their occurrence.
The conjuror took a bottle of milk and poured it all into the cone.
The conjuror - a kindly man - was concerned for the boy.
members.tripod.com /~warlight/tamplin2.html   (3114 words)

  
 Mathematics and Hocus Pocus
The conjuror exhibits the thirty-two small pieces between his right thumb and four fingers.
The conjuror is given a large hacksaw and begins to saw through the box.
Though our conjuror deserves it, there does not appear to be a full biography of him.
www.siam.org /siamnews/01-03/hocus.htm   (1394 words)

  
 Dai Vernon
Vernon is, without doubt, the most influential conjuror of the 20th century.
If you mention his name to any conjuror, amateur or professional, and you will immediately have their undivided attention.
There was only one conjuror that he spoke of negatively, and that was Harry Houdini.
www.magicdirectory.com /vernon   (557 words)

  
 Uri Geller : The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience
Skeptics point out that skilled conjurors can replicate all of Geller's feats using trickery and that nonpsychic explanations must be eliminated before one assumes that the laws of nature have been broken.
A momentary misdirection by the conjuror, such as moving position to show the spoon to other people, allows the conjuror to bend the spoon physically.
The conjuror or another individual prestresses the spoon by carefully bending it back and forth until it reaches the point of breakage.
www.simon-jones.org.uk /articles/uri_geller_how.htm   (1004 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - Backstage - The Conjuror - 1 - 12.04.97
Ben plays the Conjuror, an archetypal magician figure from the art form's golden age, and the star of the 90-minute showcase Ben created along with Patrick Watson(Canadian broadcasting's eminence grise.)
Ben is also an inveterate researcher, who has arguably amassed the world's largest collection of periodicals, clippings, lithographs and remnants arising from the golden age of magicianship, understood to be between 1895 and 1914.
The result, is that The Conjuror recreates, in form and content, an era long since passed.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_12.04.97/theatre/backstage.html   (655 words)

  
 The Way of the Conjuror
The Elven Conjuror realigns the structure of the mental and astral planes, creating thought forms and energizing them with feeling and emotion until the material world which is born of these higher and more subtle planes, conforms to their new design.
Just as a spirit might be called into a magic triangle and slowly coalesce a body for itself of smoke or mist, so does the conjuror's work proceed gradually as they sculpt matter and circumstance with the power of their wish or intent.
The elfish conjuror is particularly dedicated to helping Elfin manifest, that is to actualize Elfin upon the physical plane, increasing the union or marriage that already exists and connects the various planes of being from the gross to the most subtle.
www.sonic.net /~elves/conjuror.html   (510 words)

  
 The Conjuror's Revenge by Stephen Leacock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It transpired from the whispers of the Quick Man that the conjuror must have concealed up his sleeve, in addition to the ring, hens, and fish, several packs of cards, a loaf of bread, a doll's cradle, a live guinea-pig, a fifty-cent piece, and a rocking-chair.
The conjuror threw the watch into the mortar and grasped a sledge hammer from the table.
The conjuror made a few rapid passes with his feet and exhibited the hat crushed beyond recognition.
www.zine5.com /archive/css04.htm   (624 words)

  
 Everquest 2: Database OGaming - Database :: Abilities | Spells :: Conjuror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
An augmentation that increases the power pool and elemental resistance for the conjuror's group.
Summons a pack of inhabitants from the Plane of Water to attack an opponent specified by the conjuror.
Augmentation that grants stoneskin that protects against all physical damage to the conjuror's summoned minion for up to three attacks and increases the minion's defense skill.
eq2.ogaming.com /db/list/abilities_conjuror.php   (3055 words)

  
 The Conjuror's Bird by Martin Davies - The Richard and Judy Book Club Message Board
And, best of all, the layers of the story take one deeper and deeper into the worlds of the past and the present until, in the end, there seems nothing more to discover in the lives of these characters; yet I wanted more.
The movements from the 18th century narrative to the modern day setting were seamless - somehow my eager anticipation of what would happen next in the 18th century story was put on "pause" while I got re-immersed in the 21st.
Borrowed The Conjuror's Bird from the library yesterday, and hope to read it in the next week or so.
forum.richardandjudybookclub.co.uk /showthread.php?t=23   (823 words)

  
 Conjuror - Magic
Presented originally in 1849 by Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805-1871) and featured in his performances at St. James Hall, London in 1853, the conjuror places his son in a trance and then sets him horizontally seven feet in the air, balanced precariously on the tip of a cane.
The conjuror, his hands bound together by a member of the audience, thrusts his hands magically back and forth through the edge of a Samurai sword.
The Conjuror presents its own twist on this cornerstone illusion, a presentation which owes as much to Ernst Lubistch and screwball comedy as it does to its magical inventor.
www.theconjuror.com /magic.html   (601 words)

  
 Beleth - Goetia, the Lesser Key of Solomon the King: Lemegeton
If Bileth the king be more stubborne, and refuse to enter into the circle at the first call, and the conjuror shew himselfe fearfull, or if he have not the chaine of spirits, certeinelie he will never feare nor regard him after.
Also, if he be cited by an exorcist, alwaies a silver ring of the middle finger of the left hand must be held against the exorcists face, as they doo for Amaimon.
And the dominion and power of so great a prince is not to be pretermitted; for there is none under the power & dominion of the conjuror, but he that deteineth both men and women in doting love, till the exorcist hath had his pleasure.
www.deliriumsrealm.com /delirium/articleview.asp?Post=112   (467 words)

  
 The Spoon Bender
They considered him to be a fellow conjuror and thought it unethical to make anti-psychic statements to the public.
But still there must have been many conjurors who wished Geller success on the grounds that anyone who is gullible enough to believe such stuff deserves all they get.
If Geller ever admitted to being simply a conjuror all of those mining companies which he claims have paid him millions of pounds or dollars would sue for the return of their money.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/ukskeptic/unpublis.htm   (864 words)

  
 Shtetl: Joachim Neugroschel - THE GREAT WORKS OF JEWISH FANTASY AND OCCULT
Jonah and Rebecca saw that it was the conjuror, and they gawked and were so amazed and frightened they couldn't utter a single word.
But she said that the rabbi wouldn't believe a mere woman, he'd think she was out of her ind. So the two of them went to the rabbi, leaving the conjuror behind with the seder.
When they came in, the conjuror was gone, and the seder was just as they had left it.
www.ibiblio.org /yiddish/Book/Neugroschel2/jn-fantasy-conjuror.html   (1388 words)

  
 The Conjuror's Bird by Martin Davies from Foyles Bookshop, London.
The Conjuror's Bird by Martin Davies from Foyles Bookshop, London.
To solve the puzzle, he must uncover the identity of the amazing woman Banks loved - a woman who has disappeared from history as effectively as the specimen he is hunting.
If you liked The Conjuror's Bird, the titles below are the StoryCode recommendations for it based on matches with its genre, characterisation, plot, setting and atmosphere.
www.foyles.co.uk /foyles/display.asp?isb=0340896167&tag=&cid=   (300 words)

  
 The British Library - Evanion Catalogue - About the Evanion Catalogue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In 1895 the British Museum purchased a rich and fascinating collection of 19th century ephemera formed by Henry Evans (1832?-1905), a conjuror and ventriloquist, who performed under the stage name ‘Evanion’.
Some of this material was bequeathed to Evanion by the English barber James Savren who had been able to acquire a marvellous collection while working, without pay, for such famous magicians as Anderson, Compars Herrmann and Gyngell.
Many conjurors and illusionists of the later 19th century, including Evanion himself, are represented alongside such famous names as Maskelyne and Cooke and David Devant.
www.bl.uk /catalogues/evanion/intro.asp   (797 words)

  
 EverQuest II Summoners - Conjuror Spell List
Upgrades to this spell decreases the chance to resist the duration of this effect.
Summons a group or raid member to the Conjuror's location.
A group augmentation that grants sonicvision and allows the conjuror's allies to see invisible enemies.
www.eqsummoners.com /eq2/conjuror_spell_alphabetic.html   (3091 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - Just for tricks - 12.16.04
His are not the Vegas-style mega-illusions involving disappearing tigers, dry ice, fireworks and showgirls.
This is billed as a "brand new show." In fact, it's a 100-minute-long compilation of some of the most memorable effects from Ben's two previous shows, The Conjuror (1997) and The Conjuror's Suite (1999).
Gone is the pretense of recreating a magic show from 1909 or the setting of an elegant parlour.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_12.16.04/arts/onstage.html   (1153 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Conjuror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Genii : The Conjurors' Magazine, Volumes 29 & 30, Sept. 1964 - Aug. 1966 by William W., Jr., Ed.
Initial H in the Form of Two Conjurors, from Citeaux Abbey, Burgundian School Fine Art Giclee Poster Print, 18x24 by AllPosters.com
Conjuror's Cookbook 3 : Ghostly Goulash by Jonathan Emmett (Paperback - Dec 2001) - Illustrated
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Conjuror&tag=dragoncon&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1   (359 words)

  
 The Conjuror's Bird by Martin Davies
To solve the puzzle, he must uncover the identity of the amazing woman Banks loved – a woman who has disappeared from history as effectively as the specimen he is hunting.
A mixture of detection, romance and history, The Conjuror's Bird has all the makings of a word-of-mouth bestseller.
He has travelled widely, including in the Middle East and India, and his plan for THE CONJUROR'S BIRD was put together on a trekking holiday in Greenland.
www.lovereading.com /book/878   (283 words)

  
 The Conjuror by Patricia Beer - Poetry Archive
'The Conjuror' displays an equally unshowy technique, together with an element of sly de-bunking humour reminiscent of Stevie Smith whom Beer knew.
The idea of a conjuror's grave is a strong one and Beer seizes on its implications with a spiky glee as she describes the ultimate vanishing trick.
This recording was made as part of 'An Introduction by Hutchinson's Poetry Editor' at The Poetry Society on 10 February 1983.
www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1535   (549 words)

  
 Genii Magazine, The Conjurors' Magazine - Magic's oldest independent magicians magazine, published since 1936.
Then, with the end of the war in 1945, many soldiers who had taken Genii with them into the battlefield were back home again as regular readers.
All of these things found, by the end of the decade, a boost in the popularity of the magazine, and because of it, the art of magic.
In October 1998, the Larsen family sold Genii, The Conjurors’ Magazine, to a new company headed by famed author, illustrator, and publisher, Richard Kaufman.
www.geniimagazine.com   (1359 words)

  
 Tony Aspler: The Wine Guy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The trick, I find, is to keep her shelf well stocked with an eclectic assortment of high alcohol wines.
Another aspect of the oenological fascism syndrome is the "Conjuror Host." He can make a bottle disappear before your very eyes.
Let me explain how he does this particular illusion: you're invited to a dinner party and you would like to bring along a bottle of wine that you have been saving but have never quite found the right occasion to open.
www.tonyaspler.com /pub/articleview.asp?id=922&s=5   (918 words)

  
 Official ICE Forums - RMSS: spell list ranks from TPs
Somewhere I found the definition "must be selected as a Base List [Pure SU] or may be developed as Open List".
Channeling Companion often has remarks below the TPs which say that the list specified in the TP can be learned as an open list regardless of the caster's realm.
The he probably has to choose such a list from a different realm than his own and learn the list as Other Realm Open/Base list.
www.ironcrown.com /forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6122   (1171 words)

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