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Card tricks (also called card magic or a
card manipulation) are the illusion of magic using a deck of
playing cards. Card magic is commonplace in magic performances,
especially in close up magic or parlor magic and street magic.
Playing cards became popular with magicians in
the last century or so as they were props which were
inexpensive, versatile, and easily manipulated.
Card magic, in one form or another, likely dates
from the time playing cards became commonly known — towards the
second half of the fourteenth century — but its history in this
period is largely undocumented. One may surmise from
the practice of how other everyday objects have been pressed
into the service of conjurers across cultures and the ages that
card magic developed spontaneously and roughly concurrently in
different parts of the world, if not always synchronously.
However, compared to sleight of hand magic in general and to
cups and balls, it is a relatively new form of magic.
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