Nobody will ever know when people first started making tricks, one can only imagined the earliest people on the planet were doing tricks to entertain or scam.

 "I can tell you that the oldest trick in the world is still widely performed today, especially by street magicians. It is believed to date back to Roman times when it was known as acetabula et calculi. The literal translation is Cups and balls."

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I’m starting to believe these aren’t tricks and these guys are actually magic

If this was back 1800's this man would've been burned at the stake.