Conjury

/ˈkɑndʒəri/ noun

Definition

Magic tricks or illusions, or the practice and art of performing magic for entertainment.

Etymology

From Old French 'conjurie' and Latin 'coniuratio'. Like 'conjury', it carries the original sense of invoking spirits or using magical power, but evolved to mean the practice of stage magic and illusion.

Kelly Says

The term 'conjury' is beautifully archaic—it's what Shakespeare's audiences would have called stage magic, and it appears in many classic texts to describe sleight-of-hand tricks that amazed people before they understood how they worked!

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