Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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Early Card Fakery

In Olivier Gouyn de Poictiers 1550 work, Le mespris et contennement de tour jeux de sorts, he describes wide and short cards, marked cards, false shuffles and deals, nullifying the cut and deck switches. See Guillemin's An Illustrated History of White Magic, p.99. And in Ozanam (1725) are described and illustrated diagonally divided faces and the color-changing card with flap.