Item Detail
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26876
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English
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Reconsidering Lucy Mack Smith's Folk Magic Confession
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Mormon Historical Studies
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2012
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13
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1-2
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Sandy, UT
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Mormon Historic Sites Foundation
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1-12
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An essay is presented in which the author discusses an unpublished passage from the memoir of Lucy Mack Smith, the mother of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Jr., entitled "Biographical Sketches of the Prophet Joseph Smith and His Progenitors for Many Generations." The author suggests that Lucy Mack Smith was attempting to deny that her family had engaged in esoteric folk magic practices in her manuscript.
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