I remember reading a Mark Twain novel as a boy (Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer?) and I recall matches being referred to as 'Lucifer sticks'; circa mid 1800's. Lucifer =
- another name for Satan.
- literary
the planet Venus when it rises in the morning.
- archaic
(lucifer)
a match struck by rubbing it on a rough surface.

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