10 Magic Trick Secrets Revealed
Magic has played an important role in our childhood and not many will disagree!
Rabbits popping from hats, card tricks and cutting a lady into two parts, it was all
amazing and we waited for the magic show eagerly!
We believed it all to be true and as we grew up, we moved towards more complex magic tricks
to satisfy our skeptical minds.
It pains us to shatter the illusion but people, the magicians have been fooling us all this
while!
You can’t have the Statue of Liberty disappearing; you know it was a lie.
Know the secrets behind many such tricks and burn in agony!
Number 10.
Split man trick If you’ve watched this trick you probably
shrieked at the top of your voice!
Watching a man cut in half and carrying his own legs looks like a scene straight out of
a horror movie so witnessing it live can creep you out!
Let’s soothe you a bit, he really wasn’t cut and was just bluffing!
This trick worked only because you saw him from the front, had you seen him from the
side you would know that from the knee to the waist, it was a mannequin!
The man was walking on his own legs by bending them at a strategic angle.
Smart we could say!
Number 9.
Walking on water We’ve see this trick being performed in
the open where a person walks on water, defying all rules of physics!
Isn’t it strange that this trick is always performed on muddy water?
If the magician has some superpowers then why does he choose to walk on filthy water,
he can always use his powers on clear water!
Well people, he can’t because he aint walking on water, rather a clear plastic platform
that is not easy to see in muddy water but that can totally change in see through clear
water!
We’ve been fooled yet again!
Number 8.
Disappearing Statue of Liberty Magically making a 225-ton Statue of Liberty
vanish is no easy feat, right?
Well guys, it is far easier than you think!
Most of you would know that it stands on an island away from the lights of the city.
The only lights that illuminated the statue at night were from itself.
The audience was made to sit in front of two pillars illuminated with spotlights and from
in between them could see the statue.
Then a huge screen was placed to hinder their view for a few minutes and this is when the
lights of the statue were switched off.
Voila, the statue vanishes!
Number 7.
The floating man This is more like a roadside trick; you see
“yogis” on the street floating in air, right?
How they managed to pull off this stunt was beyond us but nevertheless we enjoyed it!
Okay, now that man you saw levitating wasn’t a divine being owning special powers.
It was all an illusion with steel structures providing support from under the person’s
baggy clothes and that stick he was holding as he sat floating above a mat were all hidden
tools to support him!
You can easily swap places with him!
Number 6.
Losing your head Another favorite trick of magicians is…
making their head fall off.
We’ve all watched that with awe but it kinda scared us as well!
Don’t worry people, he is not a ghost with a detachable neck, just a clever man pulling
wool over your eyes!
He just bends his knees and slides his head down, along with his WHOLE BODY!
Oops, but his shoulders didn’t bend, right?
That is where the trick is, the man’s jacket and jeans are held by a metal wire in place,
so when his body bends, the clothes still stay in place giving you the illusion of a
falling head!
Too easy, aint it!
Number 5.
Vanishing liquid Another famous trick that you see often and
wonder how any person can turn into a magician!
Well, the real magician is the jug from where you have to pour the liquid into a paper cone.
The trick simply is tilt the jug into the paper cone such that the opening is not visible
to the audience.
You do that because the jug is sealed at the opening, no liquid will ever flow out of it!
Now you can easily open up the paper cone you have made and show it purely dry, wow
magic!
Number 4.
Person slicing in half Another famous trick from magicians around
the world is the person slicing trick, we have all shrieked in fear on watching it!
When the magician asks his assistant to climb into a coffin type box and then slices her
in half, we were scared for the poor girl!
But it’s time to tell the truth, there were 2 assistants not one and this was possible
because the box was deeper than what you perceived!
Once the girl is cut in half, you see the face of one girl but the legs are of another
one, totally ALIVE.
Remember she wiggles her legs?
Number 3.
Rabbit in empty hat Anyone who owns a pet rabbit?
You probably know how tough it is to keep a rabbit in a hat so if you are thinking that
the cute fluff ball was hidden in the hat all the while, you are delightfully wrong!
But he didn’t magically pull out a rabbit from an empty hat, OBVIOUSLY!
The rabbit was in a cloth sack hanging from the table on which the magician places the
hat!
The skill is to swiftly grab the sack from under the table and put it in the hat without
the audience noticing it!
Definitely some credit to the magician for his slight of hands!
Number 2.
Horizontal levitation So how do you think a woman can float in air
after the table on which she lay was removed?
Pure magic, right?
Absolutely wrong!
The real trick of this feat was skillfully hidden in the girl’s flowy clothes and the
magician!
She lay on a metal platform that was hidden in her dress, the entire structure was supported
by a mechanism which is hooked to the magician.
So you never wondered why the magician never moved during the trick?
Oh and then the passing of a huge hula hoop over the girl to prove that she is not resting
on anything or rather to distract you from the real trick *winks*!
Number 1.
Underwater chain escape We’ve all seen this one, a person tied with
chains and thrown in a glass tank and locked.
Within minutes the person is able to break free and come up for air!
Never found anything fishy here?
It is too quick to be legit and uhmmm that’s exactly the case here, pure bluffing!
The trick revolves around fake locks, a bit of physical strength and clever assistants!
Basically when the magician is tied with fake locks and thrown into water, the assistant
tampers with the latches of the glass tank.
Then the magician has to use some strength and come out, easy?
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