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- ↑ Booth, John Nicholls (1986). Wonders of Magic. Ridgeway Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-943230-03-0.
- ↑ Nickell, Joe (2005). Secrets of the Sideshows. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 285–288.
