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The Discouerie of Magic

Boing Boing linked to some articles about the original book of magic tricks, Hocus Pocus Junior, (1634). Hocus Pocus Junior was actually a remix of parts of Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), published 50 years earlier to debunk all sorts of magic.

The Discouerie of Witchcraft is available in a beautifully scanned copy of an 1886 reprint.
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