"You that are watching the Gray Magician with eyes of wonder."  From the 1921 Southwestern yearbook.  See Magic Words: A Dictionary.

An amulet against the Evil Eye, found on a late Greek vase in Capua.  From The Evil Eye by Frederick Thomas Elworthy, 1895.

"You want to go into the desert and learn higher magic, nebbich, when you … cannot distinguish a Hall of Riddles from the real world and do not even suspect that the books of life contain something other than what is written on the spine?" —Gustav Meyrink, The Green Face

"Communication from the spirit of the 'lowest circle.'"  From The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic by John Henry Anderson, 1860.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

Studying by moonlight.  The book, Cemetery Maps, was a gift from our friend Gordon.

From La Lune Rousse, 1878.

We're honored by this review of The Pencil Witch:

To understand how to use printed skulls like these for powerfully magical purposes, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  From The Cornhusker Yearbook of the University of Nebraska, 1916.

Magic, White and Black by Franz Hartmann, 1890.  See The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

Your first thought may very well be, "Fake!"  But we analyzed this photo with our custom Uncanny Detector app, and the good news is that the curse which accurses it will reach its half-life in just under 50 years from now.  From Fairmont's 1964 yearbook.

 In the Mota language of the Vanuatu archipelago, a tamate-tiqa is a "ghost-shooter," a tube of bamboo stuffed with magic and shot off against the person whom it is desired to injure.  From A Dictionary of the Language of Mota, Sugarloaf Island, Banks' Islands by Codrington and Palmer, 1896

"WItchcraft in the 20th century."  From the Villanovan newspaper, 1977.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.

Perversely, this article about how witches aren't pointy-hatted, broomstick-riding crones is illustrated with a pointy-hatted, broomstick-riding crone.  From the Villanovan newspaper, 1977.