Only time I heard of them was in the Joe Smith fabulism.
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I always thought the Urim and Thummim were too reminiscent of the superstition that the Hebrews had tried to escape.
I thought they were the `seer stones’ that Joseph Smith placed inside his hat and with which he translated the golden plates into the Book of Mormon.
Or so we are told by the COJCOLDS.