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The Origins of Wonder

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 ======Potsherd or Sugar Cube Trick====== ======Potsherd or Sugar Cube Trick======
  
-An early form of this trick produced the effect of passing three short chalk-strokes drawn on a tabletop, door or panel through the wood and onto the performer's hand; see Jean-Nicolas Ponsin's //Nouvelle Magie blanche dévoilée//, 1854, p. 16 (S. H. Sharpe's English translation of this can be found in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/23417/Ponsin+on+conjuring/89|Ponsin on Conjuring]]//, 1937, p. 83). In India, fakers used a related method to cause a simple design drawn with charcoal on a fragment of pottery to appear mysteriously on a spectator's palm; see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38780/The+magic+wand/109|The Magic Wand]]//, Vol. 5 No. 5, Jan. 1915, p. 79. In the West, a similar trick is done commonly with a sugar cube. The sugar-cube variation seems to have first been suggested by Jesse A. Mueller; see "An After Dinner Trick" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38416/The+Sphinx/6|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 16 No. 5, July 1917, p. 86.+An early form of this trick produced the effect of passing short chalk-strokes drawn on a tabletop, door or panel through the wood and onto the performer's hand; see Richard Neve's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10637/Merry+Companion+or+Delights+for+the+Ingenious/101|Merry Companion]]//, 1716, "To Strike a Chalk thro' a Table", p. 84; and Jean-Nicolas Ponsin's //Nouvelle Magie blanche dévoilée//, 1854, p. 16 (S. H. Sharpe's English translation of this can be found in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/23417/Ponsin+on+conjuring/89|Ponsin on Conjuring]]//, 1937, p. 83). 
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 +In India, fakers used a related method to cause a simple design drawn with charcoal on a fragment of pottery to appear mysteriously on a spectator's palm; see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38780/The+magic+wand/109|The Magic Wand]]//, Vol. 5 No. 5, Jan. 1915, p. 79. In the West, a similar trick is done commonly with a sugar cube. The sugar-cube variation seems to have first been suggested by Jesse A. Mueller; see "An After Dinner Trick" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38416/The+Sphinx/6|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 16 No. 5, July 1917, p. 86.
  
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