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Secret – core principle of conjuring; something which should not be shared, usually a method, sleight, or other means of accomplishing an effect. Self-working – describes a trick (such as a card trick) that requires minimal skill and no sleight of hand. Servante – a secret shelf or compartment behind the magician's table.
Magicians may pull a rabbit from an empty hat, make something seem to disappear, or transform a red silk handkerchief into a green silk handkerchief. Magicians may also destroy something, like cutting a head off, and then "restore" it, make something appear to move from one place to another, or they may escape from a restraining device.
This article contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based on published literature and marketed effects, there are millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of such effects. Some students of magic strive to refer to effects using a proper name, and ...
Abracadabra is of unknown origin, and is first attested in a second-century work of Serenus Sammonicus. [1]Some conjectural etymologies are: [2] from phrases in Hebrew that mean "I will create as I speak", [3] or Aramaic "I create like the word" (אברא כדברא), [4] to etymologies that point to similar words in Latin and Greek such as abraxas [5] or to its similarity to the first four ...
David Copperfield has announced his plans to make the moon disappear. The legendary illusionist, 67, appeared on the Today show on Friday 27 October, where he revealed his next trick. “I’m ...
Fans are over the moon with excitement over David Copperfield’s newest trick. The legendary illusionist, who counts making the Statue of Liberty disappear and walking through the Great Wall of ...
Top hat as an icon for magic. This magic clever trick is so well known that it has been referenced in a wide variety of media. The top hat used for the trick has become almost synonymous with stage magicians, and is commonly used as an icon to represent magic (such as the example on the right).
A common method of creating the sigils of certain spirits was to use kameas, a special use case of magic squares—the names of the spirits were converted to numbers, which were then located on the magic square. The locations were then connected by lines, forming an abstract figure. [4] The word sigil [...] has a long history in Western magic.