The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 4 (August 1, 1932)
Magic
Magic.
In the year of the Goethe celebrations, the black magic of the German mountains, immortalised in “Faust,” had a right to re-enter literary discussion, but they brought it down to earth in stark reality when they chalked a circle on the Brocken, and submitted a maiden and a goat to an all-night vigil to see whether the goat would become a youth. Unfortunately, it is far easier for a youth to become a goat than for a goat to be a youth; and the only profitable result
(according to one report) is the subsequent engagement of the goat for vaudeville purposes. Meanwhile, remarkable figures are published of the growth of magical cults in older countries. Spiritualistic studies are widespread, some philosophic only and some concerned with materialisation.