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Let me tell you a story about a magician.

There was once a Prussian conjurer, born Friedrich Wilhelm Frickle.

Friedrich was orphaned at the tender age of six, but he proved remarkably resilient despite

this tragedy. He taught himself sleight of hand, pauming, and other techniques used by close-up

magicians. Soon he was performing in cabaretes, and by his late teens, his act had evolved into a

larger stage show. Build as a master of higher magic and apparent sorcery, Frickle gained a

modest reputation in Germany for his impressive collection of props and his increasingly complex

stage illusions. Now, like most magicians of his era, he also wore some wonderfully colorful

costumes. By the mid-1800s, the stereotype that the quote-unquote Orient was a place of

mystery and magic was firmly established in Europe. And so, magicians leaned into it.

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