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  2. Project Alpha (hoax) - Wikipedia

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    Project Alpha was an effort by magician James Randi to test the quality of scientific rigor of a well-known test of paranormal phenomena.. In the late 1970s, Randi contacted the newly established McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research ("MacLab") with suggestions on how to conduct tests for paranormal phenomena.

  3. Smoke and mirrors - Wikipedia

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    Projecting an image onto smoke with a mirror, from Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques (1770). Smoke and mirrors is a classic technique in magical illusions that makes an entity appear to hover in empty space.

  4. James Randi - Wikipedia

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    James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. [1]

  5. How magic works: Magicians share 6 psychological secrets they ...

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    How it works in a magic trick: “It’s rare that a magician straight-up lies to you,” Barnhart says. “Instead, they encourage you to lie to yourself through your assumptions.”

  6. Predicament escape - Wikipedia

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    Another variant on the "escape gone wrong" illusion ends without the performer re-appearing. Such a trick was performed by Paul Daniels on the Halloween edition of his BBC television show in 1987. He was chained up in an iron maiden type device where a set of spikes were set to close on him after a timer ran out. The broadcast showed the spikes ...

  7. Indian rope trick - Wikipedia

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    Advertisement for a reproduction of the trick by stage magician Howard Thurston. The Indian rope trick is a magic trick said to have been performed in and around India during the 19th century. Sometimes described as "the world’s greatest illusion", it reputedly involved a magician, a length of rope, and one or more boy assistants.

  8. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".

  9. Chung Ling Soo - Wikipedia

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    As an orphan, Soo said he was taken in by a Chinese magician named "Arr Hee", who trained him to perform ancient Chinese magic tricks mixed with more modern European magic. When Hee died, Soo began performing the magic his mentor had taught him. [8] As Chung Ling Soo, Robinson maintained his role as a Chinese man scrupulously.