The Stunning Act Of Magician That Left Everyone

The world of conjuring and magic offers spectacle, excitement and mystery to both the performer and the audience. A good magician will leave their audience in awe and begging to know how it was done. But as everyone knows, a magician never gives away his secrets.

But purely bewildering an audience is not enough, they must also be entertained. All students of magic quickly realise that the patter, stage appearance and beautiful assistants are as much part of the act as the rabbit in the hat. Performing a trick of magic is all about rehearsal of not only the trick itself but its presentation.

Sometimes even the most simple of tricks can be developed into stunning act by the appliance of careful props, crisp execution and a good story line. If the audience ever finds out how the trick is performed then they can be shocked at how simple it really is.

I recall a famous magician telling how he had, prior to performing an act in front of a ships captain, climbed down the outside of a ship and stuck a playing card on the outside of a port hole. During his act he threw the deck of cards at the relevant porthole and the required card magically appeared on the outside of the glass. The audience were naturally amazed and impressed at his skill, but in reality it was a simple trick, albeit a rather nerve racking one!

Many of the props and mechanical gadgets that are used by magicians are incredibly simple to work. Some tricks are even self-working and that means that the magician doesn't do the trick, but merely presents it. That belittles the magician's skill as no trick is truly self working. A lot of time and effort will go into making these a part of a successful show as opposed to just someone doing a few tricks. It is hard work that turns a trick into magic.

There are many branches of magic that include close up or table magic, illusions, mental mysteries and many more. There is discussion amongst magicians regarding the number of classifications but seven is a generally accepted number. However new forms of magic are evolving all of the time, such as street magic and shock magic. These two variations have gained some recent popularity with up and coming new magicians finding their way on to TV with their own shows. The nature of both of these forms of magic is clear from their names; one involves an unprepared stage and an impromptu audience, whilst the other invariably involves the human body and its apparent abuse, like swallowing razor blades.

No one knows the true age of magic, but it is probably as old as mankind. There are references to it in Egyptian text from 2000bc, in which a magician called Dedi cut off the heads of a duck and a pelican and then restored them without appearing to harm either bird. In the middle Ages it became intertwined with religion with the result that any one who exhibited any form of conjuring was thought to be associated with the devil and was consequently burnt as a witch.

The first book written in English, on the subject of magic was in fact called "Discoverie of Witchcraft". In this book the secrets of the magician were written down explained and many of these are still performed by the magicians of today. The trick of covering a ball with one of three cups and then making the ball disappear is still in use, hundreds of years later.


The Stunning Act Of Magician That Left Everyone... by JahazVId