Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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 Explanations of early tricks using a strand of fine hair from a woman to cause a blown egg or coin to move, and to suspend a coin in the air are given in a late fifteenth century notebook by Thomas Betson, a monk at Syon Abby in Middlesex. This notebook is at St. John's College, Cambridge, MS. E.6, according to Richard Kieckhefer in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/32864/Magic+in+the+Middle+Ages/103|Magic in the Middle Ages]]//, 1989, p. 91. Explanations of early tricks using a strand of fine hair from a woman to cause a blown egg or coin to move, and to suspend a coin in the air are given in a late fifteenth century notebook by Thomas Betson, a monk at Syon Abby in Middlesex. This notebook is at St. John's College, Cambridge, MS. E.6, according to Richard Kieckhefer in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/32864/Magic+in+the+Middle+Ages/103|Magic in the Middle Ages]]//, 1989, p. 91.
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