Magic Babylon

The craziest magical events that ACTUALLY happened!

Magic Babylon is your ticket to odd, amusing, and little-known pieces of magic trivia. Within these pages, you'll find 1,001 strange conjuring facts, fallacies and tales. This is a genuinely unpredictable collections of stories, history, and bizarre events that have taken place since the beginning of magic.

These short, thought-provoking stories will pique your interest and make you reconsider what you thought was true or false about conjuring. They will demonstrate how that reality is often stranger than fiction.

Grab a copy of Magic Babylon by Jose Hernandez and amaze your friends with incredible facts like

• Bess Houdini falsely claiming in a newspaper interview to have had a daughter.
• President Abraham Lincoln was an amateur magician.
• The town of Faucett in Buchanan County, Missouri, is named after magician Faucett Ross's grandfather.
• Houdini authored articles for the magic publication, Mahatma, posing as a European correspondent using the pen name of Herr N. Osey.
• Jimmy Grippo once managed the career of Mario Bettina, the light-heavyweight boxer. Under Grippo's management, Bettina won the world championship and held the title for five months.
• The 1908 Famous Tin Pan Alley song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" was written by an amateur magician.