But she is an exception. Only around 8 percent of professional magicians are women, according to a spokeswoman for the Magic Castle, a private clubhouse in Los Angeles for members of the Academy ...

The magic of Merlin continued to inspire different portrayals ... his knights return Exaclibur to the lake; when they do, a woman’s arm rises to catch it and then disappears below the waters ...

For decades, only male magicians were able to join — until two women set out to call their bluff. “I always wanted to be first lady in the Magic Circle,” one of them, Jenny Winstanley ...

The women trained for 18 months in magic as well as how to act, dress and sound like a man, London said, adding that the “orchestrated deception” was “so brilliantly put together, almost ...