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Question: Does Lucy Mack Smith's mention of the "faculty of Abrac" and "magic circles" evidence that "magick" played a strong role in the Smith family's early life? Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"? Question: Did early members of the "Mormon" Church believe in witchcraft? Question: Was the fact that the recovery of the Book of Mormon plates occurred on the autumnal equinox somehow significant? Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah? Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death? Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman? Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete? Source:Stephen Robinson:BYUS 27:4:1987:In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place Question: What is the probability that Joseph Smith possessed items related to "magic"? Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"? Question: Did Joseph Smith's family own "magic parchments" which suggest their involvement in the "occult"? Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith?
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