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  2. Indian rope trick - Wikipedia

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    He argued that Ibn Battuta did report a magic trick with a thong, and Jahangir with a chain, not a rope, and the tricks they described are different from the "classic" Indian rope trick. He said that the descriptions of the trick in Yule's editions (1870s) of Marco Polo's book are not in the body of the work, but in a footnote by Yule, and only ...

  3. Magic in India - Wikipedia

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    The Latin term Magi was used to refer to Zorastrians during ancient times. [citation needed] The performance of magic and its practice is historical and very ancient.There would be definite yet varied purposes for the practice of magic which evolved where entertainment, tricks, deception, illusion, cheating in games, and fun may have been aimed.

  4. Light as a feather, stiff as a board - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known account of levitation play comes from the diary of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), a British naval administrator. Pepys’s account of levitation play comes from a conversation with a friend of his, Mr. Brisband, who claimed to have seen four little girls playing light as a feather, stiff as a board in Bordeaux, France.

  5. Ishamuddin Khan - Wikipedia

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    Penn & Teller's Magic & Mystery tour, Yap Communication, Canada; In Search of the Rope Trick, In-flight Production, London; 50 Greatest Magic Tricks, Channel 4. Ishamuddin and the Indian rope trick, is listed as the 20th of the greatest magic trick. [2] It's Show Time, Nippon T.V, Japan; Discovery; CNN; BBC; Doordarshan [citation needed]

  6. List of magic tricks - Wikipedia

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    This article contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based on published literature and marketed effects, there are millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of such effects. Some students of magic strive to refer to effects using a proper name, and ...

  7. Glossary of magic (illusion) - Wikipedia

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    Magician's rope – soft, usually white rope used for rope tricks. Magician's wax – wax used to temporarily attach objects. The earliest known magician's wax is beeswax. Manipulator – a magician with a showy sleight of hand act, often set to music. Mark – a subject for a con game.

  8. Sawing a woman in half - Wikipedia

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    Criss Angel performed a trick in which he appeared to pull a woman in half with his hands during an outdoor performance and half of her crawled away. [14] [15] The trick involved a woman with sacral agenesis and a contortionist. Magician and historian Ricky Jay has written that a version of this trick was previously performed by another ...

  9. Harry Kellar - Wikipedia

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    The trick was done by a disguised machine hidden from the audience's perspective. Kellar would claim the woman onstage, sleeping on a couch, was a Hindu princess, who he would levitate and then move a hoop back and forth through the woman's body to prove she was not being suspended. Inside the "princess"'s dress was a flat board she was resting ...