These conjurors evidently contemplate an exhibition upon the lawn before the windows," said Eliza Sydney, as the men drew nearer to the house.
In proportion as the laws of nature are understood, the crafty pretensions of conjurors and witches become exposed to contempt.
Your ancient conjurors were wont To make her (the moon) from her sphere dismount, And to their incantations stoop.
Hindu conjurors are exceedingly clever, and will produce a tree from apparently nothing at all, in all stages of growth.
St. Bartlemy and his conjurors were made to play first fiddle!
And the conjurors come, and the ladies, in the number that was ordered, and when all are assembled and everything is ready, they begin to dance and play and sing in honour of the spirit.
And when they have done this for a while, again shall one of the conjurors fall flat and wallow there foaming at the mouth, and then the others will ask if he have yet pardoned the sick man?
But when any one is ill they send for their magicians, that is to say the Devil-conjurors and those who are the keepers of the idols.
At such rate of velocity it is going: the conjurors of the Oeil-de-Boeuf may well ask themselves, Whither?
Leading men from all the Three Orders are nightly spirited thither; conjurors many of them; but can they conjure this?
All at once this post of Conjurors House, a month in the wilderness as it was, seemed very small and tame and civilized for the simple reason that Death did not always compass it about.
When hard-working and ingeniousconjurors are billed by common courtesy as ‘magicians.
A sympathetic grin, as poets and other conjurors know, is the best possible bridge for a successful illusion.
It has been suggested that the conjurors hypnotise the spectators, and make them believe they see these things.
The twenty-third trick performed by some conjurors before the Emperor Jahangueir (Memoirs, p.
Among nearly all Indian tribes, conjurors or 'medicine-men' are held in high repute, and some weird instruments of theirs are met with.
Cousin Jack said he went to find the egg conjurors play with, but I think he was joking.
Their priests and conjurors are highly reverenced by them.
In still another place he speaks of the "magic knots" used by Finnish conjurors in curing diseases.
Hagennaar relates that he "saw men wearing ropes with knots in them, flung over their shoulders, whose eyes turned round in their heads, and who were called Jammaboos, signifying as much as conjurors or exorcists.
Besides (and it cannot be too often stated), conjurors should endeavour to know everything connected with sleight of hand.
The reader will scarcely require to be told that one of the great deceits practised by conjurors is that of duplication.
Some conjurors have copper wire in the edge to keep it open when required.
Since the publication of the first edition, conjurors have not been idle, and numerous new methods for producing magical surprises have been invented.
Now, although I have seen conjurors with good reputations using these prepared cards, I entirely disagree with their use myself.
Peripatetic conjurors make a good deal of money by means of this trick, by betting that the ring is either on or off the wand.
Young conjurors must avoid the error of adapting their tricks to the shelf, instead of the shelf to the tricks.
Before everything, let me inform the reader of one fact, not by any means universally known, which is that the cards generally used by conjurors are considerably smaller than those in ordinary use.
Footnote B: Some conjurors (myself included) use the third finger, but the little finger is the better one to employ, as it is more removed from observation.
Conjurors are but poor people, and cannot well afford to lose money; for this reason I have given you the florin to hold in your right hand, it being the stronger.
Some conjurors make omelettes and pancakes, which certainly make a good show, and are suggestive of being cooked on the crown of a hat.
It is very old, and has formed a portion of the stock performance of conjurors for hundreds of years.
The surprising dexterity of these jugglers is emulated by their descendants, and many of the Indian conjurors produce illusions scarcely less wonderful than any we have described.
And when the conjurors said to him, "Why should you go away?
For all the Cobras we see that the conjurors bring round have only one head each.
When the conjurors saw him, they were so much struck with his appearance (for he was very handsome) that they determined to make him, if possible, stay among them and join their band.
Have you forgotten how, when you were a little boy, you were taught to jump by conjurorsand tumblers (for the parrot knew all the Rajah's history)?
And the dancers were to dance and the conjurors to play all their tricks for the amusement of the palace inmates.
He went," answered the Panch-Phul Ranee, "toward that village of conjurorsclose by.
They have conjurors {169} who cure diseases--as rheumatism, flux and consumption.
The conjurors teach them, that they themselves shall be able to visit their tribe after the body shall have decayed; and when approaching the end of their days, inform the people in what shape they will manifest themselves.
Some are simply doctors of medicine, others in addition are conjurors and do tricks.
Indian priests, doctors, or conjurors are not more venerated on account of their supposed supernatural powers, but are somewhat feared, and sometimes persecuted or killed for supposed inflictions of diseases by sorcery.
It differed, therefore, from the preceding tales of conjurors or witches, insomuch that the services of neither of these parties were required by the anxious seekers of coming events.
Conjurors were formerly quite common in Wales; when I say common, I mean that there was no difficulty in obtaining their aid when required, and they were within easy reach of those who wished to consult them.
But conjurors could act on their own account, and if they did not show the same spiteful nature as witches, they, nevertheless, were credited with possessing great and dangerous power.
They were looked upon as charmers and conjurors by descent.
Another species of conjurors practised magical arts, having obtained their knowledge from the study of books.
It is, consequently, not to be wondered at that the common people placed faith in witches and conjurors when their superiors in learning professed a like faith.
The second kind of conjurors obtained their knowledge of the occult science from the study of books.
Conjurors retained their repute by much knavery and collusion with others.
The other conjurors were at a loss to account for the disappearance of the lily, and fumbled for a long time with the old sorcerer's head, which would not stick on in any position in which it could be placed.
Like the conjurors of modern times, they took care to be extensively informed as to all such matters respecting which the oracle was likely to be consulted.
Nor do I now, at least not for money; and the same rule holds good, I have observed, with most professional conjurors and card-manipulators.
One of the most famous conjurors who ever lived publicly expressed his disbelief in spiritualism.
Next I set my transmogrified cheese-box lid on top of three thin bamboo canes, arranged tripod-wise, and behold I was in possession of quite a pretty little table, such as street conjurors affect.
Indeed, I am personally of opinion that the cleverness of the Indian conjurorshas been very much overrated.
Meanwhile I used to visit the galleries of the music-halls where conjurors were performing, in order to observe their ways and methods, and collect such information as I could.
As a boy I had worked for a while as a telegraph messenger, one of those blind-alley occupations that lead nowhere, and I had frequently watched peripatetic conjurors giving their shows at street corners and elsewhere.
And when they have done this for a while, one of the conjurors will again fall flat, and wallow there foaming at the mouth, and then the others will ask if he have yet pardoned the sick man.
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