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the turn of the seventeenth century, and in a nineteenth-century grimm's fairy tale as a "little old worn-out hat" that "has strange properties," it is similarly defined in many stories. the magic hat's association with the commonplace has continued into modern times. for example, the top hat used in
was "patched...frayed and extremely dirty." the sacred hat, too, in many cultures has been based, like the magic hat, on the commonplace. a cap, as a hat form, is one of the oldest types of headwear. the etymological root of the word cap, as historian beverly chico plausibly suggests in her encyclopedia...
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