Acts 19:19

Verse 19. Curious arts. Arts or practices requiring skill, address, cunning. The word used here--perierga--denotes, properly, those things that require care or skill; and was thus applied to the arts of magic and jugglery, and sleight of hand, that were practised so extensively in eastern countries. That such arts were practised at Ephesus is well known. The Ephesian letters, by which incantations and charms were supposed to be produced, were much celebrated.