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| x Aquarian Illusion |
The Aquarian Illusion is a variation of the Metamorphosis or Substitution Trunk magic illusion. It was created by Alan Wakeling for Mark Wilson, who performed it in The Magic Circus series and a HBO special Mumbo Jumbo! It's Magic, and in closing...
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| x Asrah levitation |
The Asrah levitation is an illusion effect whereby the magician hypnotizes an assistant and commands them to recline on a table or couch. The assistant is then fully covered with a cloth and levitated under the cloth. The form of the assistant is...
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| x Assistant's Revenge |
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The Assistant's Revenge is a transposition illusion in which two performers change places. It was created by magician and inventor Robert Harbin.
One of the two performers, the "restrainee", is placed in a standing position in a large frame and...
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| x Battle of the Barrels |
The Battle of the Barrels is a transportation illusion also known as Barricaded Barrels, Through the Eye of the Needle or the Black and White Barrels.
The illusion consists of two topless/bottomless barrels openly displayed on castered open...
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| x Bill in lemon |
The bill in lemon is an effect in which a magician requests a currency note from a spectator and makes the note vanish, then proceeding to slice a lemon open to show the note inside.
While several variations of the effect exist, the common element...
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| x Bowl-A-Rama |
Bowl-A-Rama is a stage magic trick invented by Kevin James.
The magician holds up a pad, on which he draws a picture of a bowling ball, with the words "Bowling Ball" surrounding it. He then closes the pad, holds it in front of him, and a physical...
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| x Bullet catch |
The bullet catch is a conjuring illusion in which a magician appears to catch a bullet fired directly at him—often in his mouth, sometimes in his hand or caught with other items such as a dinner plate. The bullet catch may also be referred to as the...
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| x Cabinet escape |
The Cabinet Escape is the classic escapology trick, where the magician is trapped in a cabinet and required to escape from it. Often, the magician can be bound in handcuffs, rope, and sacks before being placed in the cabinet.
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| x Copperfield Laser Illusion |
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The Laser Illusion is an illusion performed by David Copperfield in several magic shows. The magician or his assistant is cut by a "laser" into two or more parts and starts walking.
This illusion makes use of a number of elements to be convincing....
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| x Chen Lee water suspension |
The Chen Lee Water Suspension is a magic trick.
The Effect: At first, an empty tube is shown to the audience. The magician proves that it is empty by passing an empty cup through the tube. The magician can even pass a silk through the tube to prove...
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| x Dagger head box |
Dagger Head Box is a magic trick.
The assistant's head is put in a metal box with a hole in the front. The hole is then closed by two doors at the side of the box. The rest of the assistant's body may be clearly seen. A large sword is plunged...
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| x Dove pan |
The dove pan is a classic magic effect in which a magician produces a dove from an empty pan. The illusion continues to be performed by professional and amateur magicians.
The effect consists of a shallow pan made of brass or aluminium and a...
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| x Devil's torture chamber |
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The Devil's Torture Chamber is a magic stage illusion of the classic type involving a female magician's assistant in a large box and is probably best categorised as a penetration or restoration-type illusion.
The magician presents an upright cabinet...
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| x Indian rope trick |
The Indian rope trick is stage magic said to have been performed in and around India about the 1800s. Sometimes described as "the world’s greatest illusion", it involved a magician, a length of rope, and one or more boy assistants.
There are...
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| x Mismade Girl |
The Mismade Girl is a stage illusion, designed by American magician Chuck Jones.
Four cubes with open top and bottom are stacked to form a cabinet. An assistant stands inside and the cabinet is closed. Metal blades are slid into the cabinet,...
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| x Predicament escape |
A predicament escape is any form of magic trick or escapology stunt in which the performer is trapped in a dangerous situation and is required to escape from it. Classic examples include the Table of Death, Houdini's Chinese Water Torture Cell,...
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| x Radium Girl |
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The Radium Girl is a stage illusion of the classic type involving a female assistant in a large box and is probably best categorised as a penetration or restoration-type illusion. Its origins and history are much less well documented than those of...
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| x Sands of the Nile |
Sands of the Nile, also known as Hindu Sands, is a stage illusion which was performed and made popular by Doug Henning.
Here is how Doug Henning's performance looked to those who saw it on TV. He would stand behind a small, high, table, bearing a...
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| x Sawing a woman in half |
Sawing a woman in half is a generic name for a number of different stage magic tricks in which a person (traditionally a female assistant) is apparently sawn in half or divided into two.
There remains a debate about the origin of sawing illusions,...
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| x Super chair suspension |
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Super Chair Suspension is an illusion where a person floats in midair, supported only by the back of a fold-up chair.
A magician places two foldable chairs facing each other, then he puts a board across, on top -- bridging the two chairs. Someone...
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| x Table of Death |
The table of death is a predicament escape that is alternately considered as falling into the categories of a magic trick or an act of escapology.
The apparatus consists of a substantial table with an array of menacing metal spikes suspended above...
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| x Zig Zag Girl |
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The Zig-Zag Girl illusion is a magic trick akin to the more famous sawing a woman in half illusion. In the Zig-Zag illusion, a magician divides his or her assistant into thirds, only to have the assistant emerge from the illusion at the end of the...
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| x The Best Coin Fold |
The Best Coin Fold is the title of a magic trick (effect) which appeared in Jean Hugard's book, Close Up Magic, published in 1938. A coin fold is merely an effect that involves the appearance of a magician folding a coin up within a piece of paper...
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| x Cups and balls |
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The cups and balls is a classic of magic with many adaptations. The effect known as acetabula et calculi was performed by Roman conjurers as far back as two thousand years ago. One popularly circulated painting of a man holding two inverted cups...
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| x Three-card Monte |
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Three-card Monte, also known as the Three-card marney, Three-card trick, Three-Way, Three-card shuffle, Menage-a-card, Triplets, Follow the lady, Find the lady, or Follow the Bee is a confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into...
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| x Chinese linking rings |
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The Chinese Linking Rings is considered to be a classic of illusion magic. In the traditional effect, solid metal rings appear to link and unlink, pass through each other, form chains and other complex patterns and configurations. The rings may even...
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| x Balducci levitation |
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The Balducci levitation is a levitation illusion that was first described by Ed Balducci. Its inventor is unknown. It is an impromptu magic trick, which has been popularized by many magicians, such as David Roth, Paul Harris, Alex Magic, and David...
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| x Cut and restore rope trick |
The cut and restore rope trick is a magic effect where the performer will cut a piece of rope, tie it together and then magic away the knot leaving an untouched rope.
The performer sometimes asks a member of the audience to try to perform the trick...
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| x Needle Through Thumb |
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The needle through thumb is the name of a trick which is meant to give the illusion that the magician is actually stabbing his own thumb using several sewing needles.
The performer shows his thumb to the audience showing that it is not simply a fake...
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| x Ambitious card |
The Ambitious Card, or Elevator Card, is a magic effect in which a playing card seems to return to the top of the deck after being placed elsewhere in the middle of the deck. This is a classic effect in card magic and serves as a study subject for...
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| x Chink-a-chink |
Chink-A-Chink, also known as "Sugar" and "The Traveling Sugar," is a magic trick where four small items are moved around a close-up mat with just the wave of the magician's bare hands. Objects appear to cross the mat without the magician's hands...
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| x French drop |
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The French drop is a well-known vanish involving sleight of hand. The magician takes a coin or small object between the fingers and the thumb with fingers facing the audience and thumb behind. The palm is face up. We'll assume the object is in the...
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| x Retention of vision vanish |
In the Retention of Vision Vanish, the magician places a coin or small object between the fingers and the thumb of the right hand. The left hand is palm up with the palm slightly tilted towards the audience. The right approaches and displays the...
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| x Scotch and Soda |
Scotch and Soda is a magic effect involving a copper coin and a silver coin which appear to transpose in the spectator's hands. The effect relies on simple gimmick and the tricks performed with it are self-working and require almost no skill. The...
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| x Detachable thumb |
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The Detachable Thumb (unknown originator) is a very simple close-up illusion.
The performer appears to remove the end of his own thumb; moving it back and forth along his hand or lifting it up.
There is no particular secret to this illusion: the...
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| x Thumb tip |
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A thumb tip is a magician's prop used for vanishing, producing, or switching small objects. A classic effect is to have a silk handkerchief or other small object pressed into the top of the left fist. After pushing it well in with the right thumb,...
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| x Glorpy |
Glorpy is a magic trick. A silk pocket handkerchief is laid down on a table and folded. Then, it moves as if there is some sort of object inside the folds. It can appear to respond to or interact with the magician or the spectators.
Usually, the...
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| x Healed and sealed |
Healed and Sealed is a magic trick that was invented by the Swedish magician Anders Moden in 1997 . The effect was popularised by Australian magician Tim Ellis when performed during his 2002 global lecture tour with Sue-Anne Webster. The television...
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| x Zarrow shuffle |
Zarrow shuffle is a sleight of hand technique that gives the appearance of being a normal riffle shuffle, but in fact leaves the cards in exactly the same order. This is an example of a false shuffle. It was invented by magician Herb Zarrow circa...
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| x David Copperfield's flying |
David Copperfield performs a flying levitation trick created by John Gaughan, which is notable for its graceful motion and unencumbered appearance. During the trick, Copperfield flies acrobatically about the stage, and then appears to have spinning...
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