research fellow
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at the
University of Edinburgh
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, working on the
history
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,
theory
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and
performance
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Management science
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of
magic
Magic or Magick most commonly refers to:
* Magic (supernatural), beliefs and actions employed to influence supernatural beings and forces
* Ceremonial magic, encompasses a wide variety of rituals of magic
* Magical thinking, the belief that unrela ...
University of Edinburgh
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. He is a
magician
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Performers
* A practitioner of magic (supernatural)
* A practitioner of magic (illusion)
* Magician (fantasy), a character in a fictional fantasy context
Entertainment
Books
* ''The Magician'', an 18th-ce ...
, Member of
The Magic Circle A magic circle is a ritually defined space in a number of magical traditions.
Magic circle or Magic Circle may also refer to:
* Magic circle (mathematics), an arrangement of natural numbers on circles such that the sum of the numbers on each circl ...
, and a former
president
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of the
Edinburgh
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Magic Circle
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. He has performed and lectured across the world.
He is the author of ''The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick: The Biography of a Legend'', which discusses the
Indian rope trick
The Indian rope trick is a magic trick said to have been performed in and around India during the 19th century. Sometimes described as "the world’s greatest illusion", it reputedly involved a magician, a length of rope, and one or more boy ass ...
, and ''The first psychic: the peculiar mystery of a Victorian wizard '', which traces the life and times of the "first psychic"
Daniel Dunglas Home
Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced ''Hume''; 20 March 183321 June 1886) was a Scottish physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will. His bi ...
, a Scottish medium, born in
Edinburgh
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.
List of works
Books
* Lamont, P. & Wiseman, R. (1999). ''Magic in Theory: An Introduction to the Theoretical and Psychological Elements of Conjuring'' (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press)
* Lamont, P. (2004). ''The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick: Biography of a Legend'' (London: Little, Brown)
* Lamont, P. (2005). ''The First Psychic: The Peculiar Mystery of a Notorious Victorian Wizard'' (London: Little, Brown)
* Lamont, P. (2013). ''Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Papers
*Lamont, P. (2004). ''Spiritualism and a Mid-Victorian Crisis of Evidence''. Historical Journal 47 (4): 897–920.
*Lamont, P; Bates, C. (2007). ''Conjuring Images of India in Nineteenth-Century Britain''. Social History 32 (3): 308–324.