Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
ILLUSIONISM
Etymology
Noun
illusionism (countable and uncountable, plural illusionisms)
The performance of magic tricks.
The theory of dealing with illusions.
The doctrine that the material world is an illusion.
The use of illusionary effects in sculpture and art.
Source: Wiktionary
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