The "Book of Pukei" is the earliest satire of the Book of Mormon. It was published in June and July 1830 by Abner Cole (under the pseudonym Obadiah Dogberry Esq.) in the Palmyra, New York newspaper The Reflector.
The first of two chapters deals with a character named "Walters the Magician", historically identified as Luman Walters, a treasure seeker and early convert to Smith's church.
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Walters is described as "producing an old book in an unknown tongue, (Cicero's Orations in Latin,) from whence he read in the presence of the Idle and Slothful strange stories of hidden treasures and of the spirit who had custody thereof." The text describes Walters as leading treasure seeking adventures:
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The treasure-seekers grow disillusioned, upon which "" Walters thus "".
Chapter 2 begins: "". The story of the guardian spirit is satirically described:
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The "spirit" tells Joseph that "". The spirit promises to give Joseph a breast plate and "", a reference to Book of Mormon scribe Oliver Cowdery.