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As a child, we did not think about how to construct a circus tricks - we just believed in them. Surprise adult is much more difficult, there is not enough just to get a rabbit from a hat. In this field work such illusionists like David Copperfield and David Blaine - and then we have seen levitation, disappearance of the Statue of Liberty and other spectacular stunts. Sometimes magicians reveal their secrets - and it turns out that every trick there is a reasonable explanation

1. Classic genre: sawing a woman in half

Assistant climbs into a long, resembling a coffin box. Then the magician announces that he is now the lady sawn in half right in the box - and doing it successfully without any harm to her health!

There are several ways to accomplish this feat. The classic method described in 1923, is shown in the picture below.

The box is actually a secret, it is sufficient to ensure that the assistant could lift their feet. A false (governed by a special mechanism to simulate movement) act as cut feet. Therefore, they have to be the shoes to the most of them to close.

And this is a more modern way, when the focus is attended not one assistant and two. Just one in advance hidden in a drawer. After the "cutting" one smiling and the other to move the legs.

2. Levitation

Focus starts with the fact that the assistant lies on the table in front of a magician. The crowd gasps in surprise when a magician suddenly clears the table, and the woman continues to soar in the air.

Assistant to help perform this trick, usually dressed in a long flowing dress, with the help of which the magician hides the real magic: mechanical device for "levitation", which is attached to the magician, and with which he holds the assistant. And here comes into play sleight of hand: to distract the attention of the spectator, the magician pulls the hoop and begins to conduct them, indicating that the body of a woman allegedly not attached anything.

3. Levitation street "fakirs"

It would seem that if he actually levitate, why would he stick?

And this whole thing a staff: this is a very durable design that holds the secret platform on which a person sits.

Here shows how it works

4. The slope of Michael Jackson

Remember this unreal slope at an acute angle of 45 degrees, which made Michael Jackson and his dancers? They wore special shoes with a heel special form: at the right moment on the stage surface appeared pegs for which the heel and got hooked.

This is where you can see how it works

5. The most famous trick of all time: pulling a rabbit out of a hat

Rabbit can hardly be hidden in a hat, but where did he come from? Surely there's a simple explanation.

Well, there are three ways to hide the rabbit:

1) In the secret hole in the table. When the magician puts his hat, he combines it with a secret door.

2) It is really in the bag! But the hat has a clever fold-up valve.

3) in the cloth bag, hanging from the edge of the table cloth and closed with a long fringe.

While the magician shows the crowd that absolutely empty hat, the rabbit is hidden under the table. The difficult part starts when you pick up a hat and quietly hiding underneath a rabbit.

6. Zig Zag Girl

To accomplish this, the focus is primarily needed skillful assistant, because its task - the right to stay in close closet. Necessary to accommodate such a way that the face, hands and feet kept natural position of right standing person, and the audience did not suspect anything.

7. The trick with the disappearance of David Copperfield Statue of Liberty

In 1983, David Copperfield for a few minutes convinced the whole crowd of spectators that the Statue of Liberty disappear. He did this trick more than once and will never repeat.

The disappearance of the Statue of Liberty

two towers set for the Statue of Liberty. Against the background of the night sky is visible brightly lighted Statue on the radar visible mark on it. Blanket lying on the towers, David closes a radar cover omitted - statue disappeared, only visible lights ring around it. Mark radar disappears too. Rises again, it lowered the veil - a statue appeared as if nothing had happened. There are a few guesses about how it was done.

a) Turntable

The audience did not notice this, but their visual space located on a giant rotating platform. After they looked at the statue in the beginning, they slowly turned to the point where it was no longer visible. As they did not see the rotation? Everything happened at night, the statue is on an island, unmarked there especially there.

b) light curtain

At the appointed time of autonomous statue lighting off. On the island were working only 2 spotlight, crisscrossing over the towers and spotlights on the towers, blinding the audience and not allow them to see anything in detail. In fact, the spotlight is not covered statue, and were directed up and away from her.

c) Formulation

That is simply a hoax, hoax, and the role of spectators - hired actors. Skeptics are usually inclined to this view.