In an Arabic household, a sorceress summons spirits for the inhabitants. Then she shows them even greater wonders.
Here's another of the uncredited pseudo-Melies magic shows that Pathe churned out. While Segundo de Chomon released through Pathe and worked in the same field, he experimented and expanded the Melies grammar until it became obsolete, while these uncredited Pathes often seemed content simply to use what worked, using the company's greater resources afforded by their theaters, their manufacturing and their color-stenciling techniques. "You may have the creativity," they often seemed to say, "But we have the money and the patents."
Nonetheless, this is a good one. First, it is shorter, only half a reel, and hence does not reach into empty pageantry to stretch itself. Second, the actors, are good: the Black woman who plays the witch dramatically sure of herself, her audience startled and entranced. The magic tricks are appropriate for a witch; there's a close-up shot that is perfectly chosen for the trick and the stencil work on the print I saw is about the best of the surviving Pathes.
My taste still runs to Melies and de Chomon, but you should find this one worth the four minutes it takes to watch.