How would you shelf our Magic Words: A Dictionary?  Someone didn't like where the Hennepin County Library placed it: "This book has been shelved with the Pagan/Wiccan sections within the Library.  Seeing this, I thought it was a book of a different nature.  Instead, it is a book listing all of the words one might use in slight of hand and parlor tricks.  Not at all related to where it was shelved."  Indeed, our book seems to need its own special shelf in between two sections; as Library Journal said, "Despite its undeniable appeal to New Age audiences, Conley's (One-Letter Words: A Dictionary) book of more than 700 words and phrases is just as relevant to the linguist and language enthusiast as it is to Occult followers."  

From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1911.   See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Jean Genet suggested that the sun resists the moon's efforts to muddle, thwart, and counteract the precise measurement of days.  Genet says that the sun cleanses time while the moon makes it elastic and immeasurable.  Here's another way to cleanse time, from Mocca, 1936.

From Gamla Stockholm by Claes Lundin, 1880.

From La Belle au Bois Dormant, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1920.

From The Fortunate Days by Ethel Gate and illustrated by Vianna Knowlton, 1922.

Here are three blacks of good luck, staring at a field of green.  A detail of a postcard from c. 1911.

Here's some vintage pixelation from The Oölogist, 1923.