Here's the mystery of the linking skeleton keys, from an 1863 issue of Fun magazine.

Here's a fairy godmother transforming a rabbit (presumably to be presentable for the prince's ball that evening).  From Placing American Wildlife Management in Perspective (date unspecified).

Here's a precursor to the inept magician Gob Bluth in Arrested Development, who always asks about the return policy on rabbits and doves.  From Die Muskete, 1940.

Here's a chair trick from Fun magazine, 1886.

Walter Besant, The Charm (1896).

Here are some politicized linking rings, from 1917, scanned by the Boston Public Library.

"The magic power of a few little lines."  From Popular Mechanics, 1922.

Here's a rabbit magician (a detail of an Easter postcard, date uncertain).  We had previously uncovered this giant rabbit magician pulling a man out of his hat, from 1910.

"The mystery of the ages is clear to me."  From "The Mysterious Painting" by C. N. Barham, in Cassell's, 1893.   Also very much of interest: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

Here's some divination by egg yolk, date uncertain.

"I opened the lid again," (to reveal, presumably, that the box was now full of sponge bunnies).  From Cassell's, 1890.

From back when politicians were called on their broken promises, in Grip, 1884.

The Great Levante in Wellington, 1941.

"Chang in Person: 'A Trip to Hades,'" 1939.

A press notice from magician Vernon S. Raymond, 1906.

One of the many tools we use to formulate our posts.  From The King of Gee-Whiz by Emerson Hough and illustrated by Oscar E. Cesare, 1906.