Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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 An early description of this mnemonic stack is given by William Frederick Pinchbeck in //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1805_expositor.pdf|The Expositor]]//, 1805, pp. 95-6. Another appears in a trick titled "To Tell the Names of the Cards by the Weight" in the anonymous //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1838_parlour_magic_147.pdf|Parlour Magic]]//, 1838, London: Whitehead & Co., p. 147. An early description of this mnemonic stack is given by William Frederick Pinchbeck in //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1805_expositor.pdf|The Expositor]]//, 1805, pp. 95-6. Another appears in a trick titled "To Tell the Names of the Cards by the Weight" in the anonymous //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1838_parlour_magic_147.pdf|Parlour Magic]]//, 1838, London: Whitehead & Co., p. 147.
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 +Related stacks, using a phrase to aid in remembering a non-arithmetic sequence of card values, repeated four times, date back at least to the early 1500s; e.g., one in Latin recorded in Richard Hill's Commonplace Book, 1536 (discovered by Marco Pusterla; see //Ye Olde Magic Mag//, Vol. 2 No. 3, June 2016, p. 3). There is evidence that Hill drew this stack and the trick it makes possible from earlier manuscripts, yet to be discovered.
  
 See also: [[cards:hungry_jackass_stack|Hungry Jackass Stack]]. See also: [[cards:hungry_jackass_stack|Hungry Jackass Stack]].