![]() ![]() Sure, he has the staff, but he couldn’t support his whole weight like that! Well, there’s a metal frame across the shoulders and down the arm of the jacket to help hold him up. This ‘seated levitation’ is a clever illusion often used by street magicians. See the diagram below for a more detailed explanation. Then the assistant can contort herself into the space that remains. How this illusion succeeds is by making it appear that there’s less usable space in the box than there is. The ‘zig-zag woman’ is a variation on the woman sawed in half illusion, but takes it a step further, as blades are used to apparently cut a woman in three parts, and then her severed mid-section is moved off to the side. The key of the illusion is for the magician to stand just right to conceal the rod. The second is essentially the same, but the board is raised using a metal rod. As the glass is raised, the woman appears to levitate. In the first, the woman is ‘levitated’ using a clear glass support on one end of the board she’s lying on. The ‘levitating woman’ is another classic illusion with two variations. The latter has an extra degree of realism, as the women who’s in the second half and being the legs can move them around and so on, whereas the fake legs will have to remain stationary. One using fake legs and the other using two women. ![]() There are, however, two variations on this trick. The ‘woman sawed in half’ illusion is an old classic, which you could probably figure out on your own (you didn’t really think they sawed her in half, did you?!). ![]() Take a look and learn the truth behind these outstanding illusions! Here we have seven secret ways of performing five classic magic tricks. The magician’s code generally prohibits magicians from sharing the truth behind their illusions with the general public, but some of these highly guarded secrets have come out over the years. We all know that stage magicians perform illusions and what we’re seeing isn’t real, but sometimes it’s extremely tricky to figure out what’s going on. ![]()
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