Finally getting to focus in on Joseph Smith Junior, Cody rants about the Smith family’s reputation as occultists, scryers, and money diggers around their Vermont/New York neighborhoods.
References:
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, by Richard L. Bushman
The Relfector, Golden Bible No. 3, February 1st 1831, by Abner Cole
The Reflector, The Book of Pukei, June/July 1830, by Obidiah Dogberry Esq. (A.k.a Abner Cole)
The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: A New Translation, by Eliphas Levi
Joseph Smith and Kabbalah, The Occult Connection, by Lance Owens
Mormonism Unveiled, by E.B. Howe
The Magus, or, Celestial Intelligencer, by Francis Barret
The Discoverie of Witchcraft, by Reginald Scot
A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences, by Ebenezer Sibly,
The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844., by John Brooke
Early Mormonism and the Magical World View, by D. Michael Quinn
Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and his Progenitors for many Generations, by Lucy Mack Smith