Juggling Trivia

One of the first records of juggling are murals at the 15th and 17th tombs at Beni Hasan in Egypt, depicting juggling women. [see more juggling hstory]
The Chinese Book of Lie Zi describes a warrior juggling seven swords at once (written over 2,300 years ago)
The patron saint of jugglers is St Julian the Hospitaller
According to a passage in the Jewish Talmud, Shmuel could juggle eight glasses of wine without spilling a drop.
In the 1500s, jugglers in Ireland were required by law to pay some form of compensation to any audience members hurt by juggling accidents.
Props is the term used to refer to the objects that the juggler throws through the air.

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