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El Brujo en Sociedad by D J Mieg, 1839
 
'El Brujo en Sociedad' by D J Mieg was published by Los Hijos de Dona Catalina Pinuela in Madrid in 1839.

A full copy of the work can be accessed here.

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Analysis

A box in the shape of a rose with twelve leaves - Cut and Fold Polygonal Packets

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Link a pair of cherries on a card so that their separation seems difficult - The Cherries Puzzle

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Another way to present the same puzzle

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Another analagous game played with three pieces of playing card - The Three Pieces Puzzle

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Another more difficult game of patience - The Card Puzzle

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Papel Proteo - Troublewit

The introduction says, roughly, 'The game, or rather the games that are made with this ingenious paper, are very old and well known to foreign jugglers. The poor and humorous Préjean, so skilful in sleight of hand, as well as in those of balance and projection, which later the Indian minstrels made known to us with greater variety, very often amused his audience in Paris with the games of the protean paper in the 1800s; and more recently the London public will not have forgotten a blind young man who for some years made himself admired in the streets of that metropolis for the singular dexterity with which he knew how to handle said role.

In Minguet's little Spanish work, and even better in French books (note 1: "For example, in the encyclopedic volume 'Amusemens des Sciences', and in the 'Manuel du Sorcier'.") the reader will find the method described. to fold a sheet of paper with a larger label, in the convenient way to lend itself to the imitation of all the forms in question. But in none of these books have I seen a description of how to execute the indicated figures.'

Préjean is the French prestidigitateur Antoine Préjean (c1755-c1840).

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