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This page contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based strictly upon published literature and marketed effects, there are hundreds of millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of effects. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Some serious students of magic strive to refer to effects by a proper name, and are also concerned with the proper attribution of the effect creator. For example, consider an effect where the magician shows four aces, and then they turn face up one at a time in a mysterious fashion. You might recognize this as Twisting the Aces, which is attributed to Dai Vernon, based on Dai Vernon Dai Vernon (born David Frederick Wingfield Verner June 11, 1894 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - died 1992 in Hollywood, California) was a Canadian magician. ...
The Asrah levitation is an illusion effect where the magician hypnotizes his/her assistant and commands him/her to recline on a table or couch. ...
The Assistants Revenge is a transposition or teleportation illusion in which two performers change places. ...
A performance of The Aztec Lady on British television The Aztec Lady is a stage illusion designed by British magician Robert Harbin. ...
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. ...
Bowl-A-Rama is a stage magic trick invented by Kevin James. ...
The bullet catch is a conjuring illusion in which a magician appears to catch a bullet fired directly at him. ...
The Cabinet Escape is the classic escapology trick, where the magician is trapped in a cabinet and required to escape from it. ...
This illusion was performed by David Copperfield in several magic shows. ...
The Chen Lee Water Suspension is a magic trick. ...
Dagger Head Box is a magic trick. ...
The Devils Torture Chamber is a magic 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. ...
This trick makes it seem that a blade of a guillotine passes through a persons neck without harming him/her. ...
André Kole is an American magician and inventor of magical effects. ...
The Illusion Impaled is a stage illusion, in which the subject (it is frequently performed by magicians on themselves, as well as on their assistants) is first balanced at their waist on the tip of a sword, then spun around on it. ...
Interlude is a stage illusion where one person appears to pass through the torso of another. ...
A cubical magnet levitating over a superconducting material (this is known as the Meissner effect). ...
Metamorphosis is a stage illusion (magic trick) invented by John Nevil Maskelyne (who also invented the first typewriter to be produced in Great Britain), but most often associated with famous magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, and performed to some renown (for speed) by The Pendragons, among many others. ...
The Mismade Girl is a stage illusion, designed by American magician Chuck Jones. ...
Origami is an ancient Japanese magic still used today. ...
A Predicament escape is any form of magic trick in which the magician is trapped in a dangerous situation and is required to escape from it. ...
Quick Change is a 1990 comedy film starring Bill Murray, who also co-directed with Howard Franklin. ...
// Magician Jeffrey Atkins and Paul Daniels performing The Radium Girl with an assistant called Jackie on The Paul Daniels Magic Show 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...
Sands of the Nile, also known as Hindu Sands, is a stage illusion which was performed and made popular by Doug Henning. ...
// Sawing a woman in half is a generic name for a number of different stage magic tricks in which a person (traditionally a woman) is apparently sawn in half or divided into two. ...
André Kole is an American magician and inventor of magical effects. ...
Super Chair Suspension is an illusion where a person floats in midair, supported only by the back of a fold-up chair. ...
// 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 twister is a famous stage magic trick. ...
The Wringer or wringer box illusion is a stage magic trick. ...
The Zig-Zag Girl illusion is a magic trick akin to the more famous sawing a woman in half illusion. ...
Close-up effects
- Triumph
- Coins across
- Twisting the aces
- Card to wallet
- Color changing knives
- Crazy man's handcuffs
- Oil and water
- Chop cup
- Cups and balls
- Three card monte
- Any card at any number
- Die box
- Linking rings
- Balducci levitation
- $100 bill switch
- Professor's nightmare
- Cut and restored rope
- Miser's dream
- Thumb tie
- Aces front
- Ambitious card
- Card through window
- Rising card
- Multiplying balls
- Sponge balls
- Matrix
- Sympathetic coins
- Chink-a-chink
- Gadabout coins
- Card to pocket
- Card under the glass
- Color changing deck (of cards)
- Torn and restored newspaper
- Torn and restored card
- Card warp
- Coins through the table
- Boxing Ring by Aaron Smith
- Behold the Scarabaeus
- Scarabaeus Lite
- Impossible Phone Booth
- Fort Knox Coins to Bottle
The cups and balls trick is an old magic effect that has spawned a variety of adaptations. ...
The Chinese Linking Rings is considered to be a classic of illusion magic. ...
The Ambitious 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. ...
Utilities/Accessories There are thousands of devices used by magicians to accomplish their effects. However, most of the devices are never even observed during the performance of the trick(s); while not generally tricks in and of themselves, some of these devices are very valuable to performers of magic. | | | History of magic • Timeline of magic • Magic tricks This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
2700BC - The first known performance of a conjuring effect (cups and balls) by the magician Dedi in ancient Egypt 100AD - The Acetabularii performed the Cups and balls in ancient Rome using stones and small vinegar cups (hence the name Acetabularii) 1584 - Reginald Scott publishes The Discoverie of Witchcraft (sic) a...
Parlor magic • Card magic • Street magic • Mentalism • Coin magic • Escapology Parlor magic is done for larger audiences than close-up magic (which is for a few people or even one person) and for smaller audiences than stage magic. ...
A card manipulator performing a flourish with a deck of playing cards. ...
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Mentalism is an ancient performing art in which its practitioners, known as mentalists, use mental acuity, principles of stage magic, hypnosis and/or suggestion to present the illusion of mind reading, psychokinesis, precognition, clairvoyance or mind control. ...
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Harry Houdini, a famous escapologist and magician. ...
Exposure of magic tricks • Intellectual rights to magic methods Exposure in magic refers to the practice of making magical methods (the secrets of how magic tricks are performed) available to those who are not magicians. ...
This article may contain original research or unverified claims. ...
Category: Professional magicians • List of conjuring terms • List of magic tricks The following is a list of terms used by magicians, sorted alphabetically. ...
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