The Folk Magic of Joseph Smith

There's an attempt once you recognize and have to accept the historical record about his engagement in treasure digging and other kinds of folk magic. It seems like this stuff if we lived in that time I bet we would see a hundred other instances of prominent church members using items that are believed to have some sort of magical ability. There were things that came up in this research that I hadn't been aware of until preparing this episode. And when we're raised in it as just a part of our belief system it isn't as weird as when we learned that something was done in the past moment that we didn't have a clue about. But there were quite a few in there that were new to me