Myths & mysteries
Smoke and mirrors refers to a Victorian ghost trick
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The metaphor for political deception started with literal Victorian charlatans. A nineteenth-century optical illusion used angled glass and hidden lighting to project a ghostly reflection onto a stage, blinding the audience with smoke to hide the blatant physics.
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