Clairvoyant Glasses

Now I have never heard of these before.
http://blog.christiandaviesantiques.co.uk/unforeseen-surprise-when-victorian-clairvoyant%E2%80%99s-glasses-go-under-the-hammer-in-lancashire-2123.html

I've a drawer full of old clairvoyant's specs in a drawer upstairs. Off to the auction house they go...
Didn't Joseph Smith claim to use magic specs to translate Book of Mormon?

KatyKing wrote:I've a drawer full of old clairvoyant's specs in a drawer upstairs. Off to the auction house they go...
Didn't Joseph Smith claim to use magic specs to translate Book of Mormon?

Did he? Never knew that.

Someone's certain to know.
Sure I saw that on a TV docu once.

KatyKing wrote:Someone's certain to know.
Sure I saw that on a TV docu once.

Yes you're right Katy. Which mysteriously disappeared... who knew? Apparently he used them to decode some mysterious texts (also lost) which formed the basis of the Book of Mormon - if memory serves.

Thought so.
He could have used Babelfish today.
Bit before Fox sisters day but Joseph Smith came from just up the road from Hydesville.
All sorts of characters and reported para-occurrences sprang from that 'burned over district'.

KatyKing wrote:Thought so.
He could have used Babelfish today.
Bit before Fox sisters day but Joseph Smith came from just up the road from Hydesville.
All sorts of characters and reported para-occurrences sprang from that 'burned over district'.

Must be something in the water.