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Conjurors proclaimed the merits of their miracles, bawling in the faces of the curious. Dwarfs went to and fro, dressed in bright colours with green and yellow turbans on their enormous heads, tapping with long staves, and relating their deformities. Water-sellers sounded their gongs.
There is nothing ecclesiastical about it; the place is fit for the operations of either lecturers, or preachers, or conjurors; and it will do for the inculcation of Presbyterianism as well as for anything else. The leaders of the Presbyterian body are looking out for a site upon which a new chapel may be erected, but they have not yet found one.
But this, the oracular sublime, has now gone to the gipsies and the conjurors, and I must write plain English, if I can. I am come to the crass of the infant bore the infant reciting bore; seemingly insignificant, but exceedingly tiresome, also exceedingly dangerous, as I shall show.
And oh, the refreshment there is in dealing with characters either contemptibly beneath us or supernaturally above! My way is like a Rhone island in the summer drought, stony, unattractive and difficult between the two forceful streams of the unreal and the over-real, which delight mankind honour to the conjurors! My people conquer nothing, win none; they are actual, yet uncommon.
Are you not aware that in seasons of plague of the epidemics of our times, as well as the plagues of former days conjurors, and fortune-tellers, and quacks appear, as a sort of heralds of the disease?
We are going to have some very grand people, conjurors, who have always something to say; and therefore the old elf king wishes to make a great display." "Who is to be invited?" asked the raven. "All the world may come to the great ball, even human beings, if they can only talk in their sleep, or do something after our fashion.
These conjurors, who were called behiques, were the oracles of the natives, whom they led into many superstitions and absurdities; pretending to cure the sick by blowing on them, and other mummeries, muttering some unintelligible words between their teeth. The natives of Cuba acknowledged that the heavens and earth, and all things contained in these, had been created.
There were magical brazen circles and sun-dials for fortune-telling in its porch; every one said that they had once belonged to Pharaoh or the conjurors who strove with Moses. Alas! no one of the ferocious bigots knew that with these Eratosthenes had in the old times measured the size of the earth, and Timocharis had determined the motions of the planet Venus.
It is very effective and one that is included in the programme of many European conjurors, though their modus operandi is more efficient and needs less preparation. The only rope trick I have ever seen performed by an Indian conjuror, is that of "The cut string restored," as it is called in England.
"Ay, ay! well," answered Desborough, to whom this description of the old poet was unintelligible "I for one desire his room rather than his company; one of your conjurors, I warrant him. But what says he to the matter?" "Only a slight spell, which I will take the freedom to repeat to Colonel Everard," said Bletson; "but which would be as bad as Greek to thee, Desborough.
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