I've read a few books on the topic recently, it seems to be a boom area in Academia. It's interesting that the writers go to great lengths not to judge or make the assumption that magic didn't work - the point is that people at the time really did seem to believe in magic. To someone like me without a spiritual or mystical bone in my body though it just comes across as a load of scammers grifting the gullible out of a few quid. Stull makes it a good read, but I'm missing that extra dimension of understanding why people fell for the grift. The heatwave has finally hit Britain, and the tent is now up in the garden. William and I have slept (fitfully) in it for the last two nights, with Buzz getting very excited, scratching it up and getting stuck between the layers. He likes to perch between the outer layer and the membrane at the top of the tent, which starts to sag until he nearly reaches us. Then he gets stuck, panics and causes a kerfuffle trying to right himself.
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