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  1. Question: What is the distinction between belief in "folk magic" and a religious belief in the supernatural
  2. Question: Were Joseph Smith's spiritual experiences originally products of magic and the occult
  3. Question: What were the attitudes of Joseph Smith and his contemporaries toward "magic"
  4. Question: How did Joseph Smith use his seer stones as a youth
  5. Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"
  6. Question: Does Lucy Mack Smith's mention of the "faculty of Abrac" and "magic circles" evidence that "magick" played a strong role in the Smith family's early life
  7. Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"
  8. Question: Did early members of the "Mormon" Church believe in witchcraft
  9. Question: Was the fact that the recovery of the Book of Mormon plates occurred on the autumnal equinox somehow significant
  10. Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah
  11. Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death
  12. Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman
  13. Stephen Robinson: "In the case of the Jupiter coin, this same extrapolation error is compounded with a very uncritical acceptance of the artifact in the first place"
  14. Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete
  15. Question: What is the probability that Joseph Smith possessed items related to "magic"
  16. Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith
  17. Question: Does the Book of Mormon’s reference to “slippery treasures” stem from Joseph Smith’s involvement in money digging and the occult
  18. Question: Did Joseph Smith's family own "magic parchments" which suggest their involvement in the "occult"?