Lucy Smith addresses charges her family engaged in magic circles, sooth saying and neglected their business.
Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, Page [10], bk. 3, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed September 7, 2021
Now I shall change my theme for the present but let not my reader suppose that because I shall pursue another topic for a season that we stopt our labor and went <at> trying to win the faculty of Abrac drawing Magic circles or sooth saying to the neglect of all kinds of buisness we never during our lives suffered one important interest to swallow up every other obligation but whilst we worked with our hands we endeavored to remmember the service of & the welfare of our souls.