We were gifted with a real magic hat and recorded some Fashion-house music to accompany it.  Our haberdasher said: "I'm honored that the indefatigable Professor Oddfellow, our favorite author, weird-poster, internet personality, and wise sage has kindly accepted our gift of a unique, one of a kind custom hat! Our fine haberdashery covering his braincase, hopefully focusing his occult forces to greater power, is our pleasure and privilege!"

From the 1922 Ole Miss yearbook.

People who live in crystal boxes should not assist magicians with cannons.  From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.

Just in case, here's a witching rod.  (We traced the origin of magic wands here.)  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.

We're honored that Cyril the Sorcerer calligraphized a line of ours about magic words and chocolate: "Delight in the magic word as you speak or sing it, as you might savor a morsel of fine chocolate. —Craig Conley"

Not only does The Book That Casts No Reflection cast no reflection, but it sports a dapper mustache!  It's by magician/inventor Gregg Webb, author of the out-of-print Book That Doesn't Exist.  Not only do we admire Mr. Webb's book titles, but he hand-letters and profusely illustrates his works (even those that do not exist or no longer don't exist).

From Southwest Texas State Teachers College's 1919 yearbook.

An old illusion in which the dead rise again.  From Spook Crooks by Julien J. Proskauer, 1932.

Often misconstrued when given as a gift -- the Rod of Death.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy handbook.

Before turning a woman into an orange tree, be sure your climate zone accommodates citrus.  From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.

The long-held gambits and counters are finally revealed, so that anyone can one-up the greatest scoundrels of all: magicians.  It's all in Upmanship Tricks: Secrets of One-Upping Magicians.

Cheese divination, jester scepters, and cheating at a game of Go Fish: it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.

"Cousened" is an obsolete version of "cozened," so the conjurer is himself tricked.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.

How a theatrical ghost walks.  (But no mention of how ectoplasmic perambulation occurs.)  From Spook Crooks by Julien J. Proskauer, 1932.