When we watch the performances of the great magicians, we don’t even think that their solution can lie on the surface! The illusionists delight and, probably, each of us, I would like to at least sometimes resemble a powerful and bright magician-wizard.
However, an illusionist is an ordinary person, and he never ceases to hone his professional skills. Someone turns out to write brilliant novels, someone cooks deliciously, and magicians show amazing numbers that excite our imagination ...
To create magic tricks, you need to have dexterous hands and have a good mind. From this collection you will learn about famous tricks, the secrets of which illusionists do not like to reveal.
10. Levitation
Tricks can be performed from different angles: sitting or lying down, but they have one feature - this is levitation (soaring in space).
Have you seen in programs or on shows how a person hangs in the air? In fact, the secret to such a trick is simple - there is hidden support, and no miracles!
A magician draws a ring through an assistant floating in the air ... Do you think this is real? No, she lies on a plaque holding on to a metal support. The magician skillfully hides it, so its location determines how successfully this trick is performed.
9. Sawing in half
Not a single magician's program can do without the old and already well-known trick - cutting a person. The magician wants to show us that dividing a person into two parts is possible, but we know that no!
According to information, the roots of such illusions come from ancient Egypt. The stunt saw the Light for the first time in 1920 in the London Hall of St. George, and not the public, but theatrical agents. The trick was shown by one famous illusionist of the time - Percival Thomas Tibbles.
Sawing is that a person (pay attention, only thin assistants perform tricks) just tightens his legs, and in another box there is a dummy foot. There is another option for performing the trick - in the second box, the second assistant is hiding.
8. The disappearance of the Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a sculpture made in the neoclassical style located in the USA, the date of its opening: October 28, 1886. It is always in place, but David Copperfield (American illusionist) in 1983 wanted to make us think that the statue could disappear!
The secret of such a seemingly heavy number is explained very simply. The sculpture was covered with material and the backlight turned off, but the spotlights do not touch the light, they continue to shine. They blind the audience, and in their eyes an illusion of emptiness is created.
When the veil falls off, it is difficult for people to see the contours of the monument in the dark, their eyesight simply does not have time to adapt.
7. Passing through a mirror
Everyone perceives this unique trick with delight! Besides the fact that it is mysterious in itself, it is also connected with mirrors shrouded in secret parallel worlds ... Now they are trying to repeat this trick and surprise them, however, having learned its secret, it is no longer so exciting ...
To deftly dissolve in the mirror, the magician needs screens with slots in the middle. Mirror panels (two of them) are hidden in the back of the mirror in the slot. Such a cunning design allows you to shift the main mirror, and put 2 false ones in its place. The wizard crawls into the hole, and at the end of the trick, cute assistants put the main mirror in its rightful place.
6. Water walking
We all understand that walking on water is more a fantasy than a reality. And in this we are right. However, the illusionists want to guide us and show that we are mistaken.
This trick has been known for a long time, but how is this done? Very simple. The trick is always carried out by magicians in that pool where the water is unclear, and always where people bathe, thanks to which waves are created.
The main goal of such a simple trick is to divert attention, and cameras should not shoot a transparent platform under water. It is on it that the magician goes or lies.
5. The disappearance of the truck
Have you ever thought about how to make a truck (it can be an airplane or other heavy objects) under a cloth disappear? Is this possible if the ring is surrounded by spectators?
Of course, yes, if this trick is shown on TV, and not live.
The bedspread is attached to a structure prepared in advance; it is important that it is always in one place. Next, you need to call the front viewers and take the truck into the back room.
4. The saw of death
It seems that after such a trick, no one will survive! However, everything is thought out to the smallest detail. The trick in which a magician cuts a person into two is similar to sawing in half, only here is a circular saw.
For this number you need two slender assistants. The secret of the focus lies in the structure of the table - it is not solid, but consists of 2 parts, between them there is a thin gap. It is not on him that the death saw passes. One assistant has an upper body hidden, and another has a lower one. That's the trick!
3. Passage through walls
On the stage or on TV, the wall looks real, and it really is. But the mage does not pass through the wall.
At first, the magician approaches one side of the wall, at this moment his assistants help him hide using the screens on casters. At that moment, the viewer sees exactly the same construction on the other side of the wall, and the illusionist is already there.
The thing is that under the wall there is a V-shaped tunnel, and unlike the wall - the floor is not real, the magician successfully moves from one side of the wall to the other, it takes only a couple of seconds.
2. Catching a bullet with teeth
Such a trick as catching a bullet is one of the oldest, however, the same can be said about the bullets themselves.
In order for the trick to work successfully and the audience to be satisfied, you need not so much preparation as dexterity of your hands and language.
The focus is carried out as simple as possible - bullets are made so that there is no doubt that they are real (for this, wax bullets are covered with the color of the real ones.)
The following happens - blank bullets explode inside the gun, and the illusionist needs to hide the real bullet in his mouth in advance.
1. Pigeons from a scarf
Without this focus, it’s hard to imagine entertaining shows. The trick is so old that, probably, it is already known to everyone.
The illusionist shows his handkerchief to the audience, giving him the opportunity to examine it from all sides, and then a living dove appears from somewhere!
This trick requires diligence and preparation - the magician, before entering the stage, places pigeons under his vest: one on the right side and the other on the left.
When he first covers his left hand with a silk scarf, he imperceptibly takes out the pigeon with the other, and then holds it under the cloth. It remains to remove the scarf and surprise the audience! The same thing is done with the other pigeon and with the other hand.