We're delighted that our mystical spell for a wishing well (which debuted in Fiddler's Green magazine, no.4) inspired a magical presentation by renowned mentalist Mark Edward for his book of mysterious séance magic, Total Darkness.

From the rare (over $900 on Amazon) Ghosts and Spirits of Many Lands by Freya Littledale and illustrated by Stefan Martin.

"Apple pie!"  From Fisher Junior's 1966 yearbook.

If we were to quibble about Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary ("O ascetic, go, and don’t quibble with those who drink the dregs," Hafez said), it would be over the fact that the book is in fact a glossary and not a dictionary, though author Paul Dickson, as a consulting editor for Merriam-Webster, would already know that.  Having compiled glossaries ourselves, we get the predicament: if every entry has the same definition (in this case, "drunk"), the entries might as well stand unadorned.  The illustrations by Brian Rea make the impressive glossary even more charming.  Can you guess the entry for this illustration?

From Kansas State's 1935 yearbook.

From Iuvenal, 1906.

From Lustige Blätter, 1903.

From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

Though yarn hair, not mop hair, is most appropriate for a Raggedy Ann & Andy look, we're going to let this transgression pass.  From Mount Wachusett's 1972 yearbook.

The Marx Bros. as puppets pulling an ink volcano.  From The Film Daily, 1932.

Surprisingly, this page from a religious college's yearbook revises the Bible, changing "through a glass, darkly" (1 Corinthians 13) to "brightly," a revision used by anti-religionists.  (There's even a book with this revision as its title: Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are.)  Unable to control themselves, the yearbook editors ran with the revisionism and brought coffee into it: "Through a glass warmly."  From Mount Olive's 1963 yearbook.

Here's a precursor to How to Believe in Your Elf.  From Sandman Twilight Stories by Abbie Phillips Walker and illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase, 1918.

People turn into numbers in the endpapers of Northeastern's 1984 yearbook.

From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.

Finally, an explanation we can understand -- "Math a world of numbers."  From Charleston Southern's 1972 yearbook.  See Presumptive Conundrums: Rhetorical Math Questions + Answers.

It's true that "somebody has to write the headlines," but if only it could be somebody else.  From The Gateway, 1976.

There are zero Google Books results for "writing with spilled ink."  Yet it's how we compose all of our own books.  From Purdue's 1907 yearbook.