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==History== Devil sticks are believed to have originated in China in the distant past as simple wooden juggling sticks.<ref name="BurgessFinelli1976108">{{cite book|author1=Burgess|author2=Finelli|title=Circus techniques|year=1976|page=108|quote=Although devil sticks have been known in the West for a long time, they originated in China and even today's Chinese acrobat- jugglers excel at devil sticks.}}</ref><ref name="GhoshBanerjee2006">{{cite book|last1=Ghosh|first1=Sampa|last2=Banerjee|first2=Utpal Kumar|author-link2=Utpal K. Banerjee|title=Indian Puppets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iy6_TtXCZjMC&pg=PA287|access-date=8 September 2012|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=978-81-7017-435-6|pages=287|quote=The ancient Chinese were skilful craftsmen and one of the oldest props in juggling; the devil on two sticks.}}</ref><ref name="CullenHackman2006">{{cite book|last1=Cullen|first1=Frank|last2=Hackman|first2=Florence|last3=McNeilly|first3=Donald|title=Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America 2V Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFnfnKg6BcAC&pg=PA308|access-date=8 September 2012|date=16 October 2006|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-93853-2|pages=308|quote=Originally simple wooden sticks that originated centuries ago in China...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Strong |first=Todd |title=The Devil Stick Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ou8mLLdUrnUC|access-date=3 October 2018|date=1990|publisher=B. Dube|isbn=9780917643071|pages=51|quote=Devil Sticks originated in China....}}</ref> It was apparently brought to Britain sometime around 1813, when a publication mentioned that previous generations had not known of it.<ref>{{cite book |title=The European Magazine, and London Review |date=1813 |publisher=Philological Society of London |page=209 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KCAYAQAAIAAJ&dq=game%20%22the%20Devil%20on%20Two%20Sticks%2C%22&pg=RA2-PA209 |language=en}}</ref> The first scientific analysis of the physics behind the game, known as "the Devil on Two Sticks," was published in 1855 by [[Benjamin Peirce]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Peirce |first1=Benjamin |title=A System of Analytic Mechanics |date=1855 |publisher=Little, Brown |page=451 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IPJJAAAAMAAJ&q=devil&pg=PA451 |language=en}}</ref>
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