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====== Pom-pom Prayer Stick ====== | ====== Pom-pom Prayer Stick ====== | ||
- | When Louis Histed published his version | + | The first description |
- | A pocket version of this trick, called the "Devil Stick", | + | A remarkable example of independent reinvention appears to have occurred roughly 180 years later in England. Around 1912, Chris Van Bern created a pocket version of the trick, |
- | Histed may have been referring to " | + | In 1927, Will Goldston published the trick, under the title “A String Problem”, in // |
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+ | The trick was first marketed circa 1935 as the " | ||
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+ | When Louis Histed | ||
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+ | Circa 1938, Abbott' | ||
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+ | Assuming that Histed knew nothing of the Japanese origin of the trick, he may have been referring to " | ||
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