Special effects: 1902

Special effects are just magic tricks. So is make-up, plastic surgery, 3D, and television.

We're all inhabitants of the Emerald City, with green lenses clamped over our eyes so we can never see the world as it is.

Transexuals: 1904

Before:

After:

--From The Marvelous Land of Oz--

The main character of the story is a boy named Tip, who is really a girl magically trapped in a boy's body.   Tip doesn't even think he is a girl, but agrees to be turned into one at the end of the story.

There is also another character who has been calling Tip "father" throughout the story and expresses some confusion before the sex change occurs, but immediately accepts it once it has been completed.

Just a typical children's book.

Hocus Pocus, 1656 edition

...I will speak of one man more excelling in that craft than others, that went about in King James' time, and long since, who called himself, The King's Majesties most excellent Hocus Pocus, and so he was called, because that at the playing of every Trick, he used to say, Hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade celeriter jubeo...

--From A Candle in the Dark--