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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.
The trick is performed by removing the shoe furthest from the audience, and turning that foot 90 degrees away from the audience, with the empty shoe clamped between both feet. When the performer stands on the tip of the hidden foot, the two shoes are raised together, and the audience assumes that these are both of the performer's feet.
Servante – a secret shelf or compartment behind the magician's table. Silk – a silk handkerchief. Shell – a hollowed out coin or ball which fits over the real object allowing vanish and reproductions. Shell game – a confidence trick involving three half walnut shells and a pea. The mark bets on which shell contains the pea but loses ...
It all started when Dan Zaleski, who was visiting the zoo, decided to show the orangutan a simple trick with a styrofoam cup and a disappearing ball. Zaleski places the ball in the cup and caps it ...
John Gaughan described how the trick works in US Patent #5,354,238. [1] [2] According to the patent, the performer is supported by two fan-shaped arrays of fine wires that remain invisible to the viewing audience. [6]
For those on the US East Coast, Mars will disappear behind the bottom of the moon around 9:16 p.m. ET and reappear behind the upper right of the moon at 10:31 p.m. ET.
The oldest known account of levitation play comes from the diary of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), a British naval administrator. Pepys’s account of levitation play comes from a conversation with a friend of his, Mr. Brisband, who claimed to have seen four little girls playing light as a feather, stiff as a board in Bordeaux, France.
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