This page contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based strictly upon published literature and marketed effects, there are hundreds of millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of effects.
Some serious students of magic strive to refer to effects by a proper name, and are also concerned with the proper attribution of the effect's creator. For example, consider an effect where the magician shows four aces, and then they turn face up one at a time in a mysterious fashion. This effect might be recognized as Twisting the Aces, which is attributed to Dai Vernon, based on a false count invented by Alex Elmsley. Some tricks are listed merely with their marketed name (particularly those that are sold as stand-alone tricks by retail dealers), whereas others are listed by the name given within magic publications.
Contents |
Stage illusions
- Aquarian Illusion
- Asrah levitation
- Assistant's Revenge
- Aztec Lady
- Battle of the Barrels
- Bill in lemon
- Bowl-A-Rama
- Bullet catch
- Cabinet escape
- David Copperfield's laser illusion
- Chen Lee water suspension
- Cremation/Burning Alive
- Criss Angel Scare Crow
- Crusher
- Dagger head box
- Dove pan
- Devil's torture chamber
- Disembodied Princess (aka The Mystery of Princess Karnac)
- Dismemberment
- Elastic Lady
- Geometrix
- Guillotine
- Gut Buster
- Head Mover (as created by André Kole)
- Impalement
- Indian rope trick
- Interlude
- Several varieties of Levitation
- Mini Kub-Zag
- Metamorphosis
- Mismade Girl
- Modern Art
- Monster Guillotine
- Origami
- Predicament escape
- Quick-change
- Radium Girl
- Sands of the Nile
- Sawing a woman in half (See also below)
- Scarecrow
- Shadow Vision
- Slicer (Cutting in ninths)
- Squeeze Box (as created by André Kole)
- Stretcher
- Super Chair Suspension
- Substitution trunk aka Sub trunk
- Table of Death
- Twister
- Wringer
- Zig Zag Girl
Close-up effects
- The Best Coin Fold
- Twisting the aces
- Cups and balls
- Three card monte
- Chinese linking rings
- Balducci levitation
- Cut and restore rope trick
- Miser's dream
- Thumb tie
- Needle Through Thumb
- Ambitious card
- Sympathetic coins
- Chink-a-chink
- Card warp
- French drop (The Tourniqet)
- Retention of vision vanish (Pinch Vanish)
- Scotch and Soda
- Detachable thumb
- Thumb tip
- Glorpy
- healed and sealed
- Zarrow shuffle
Levitations
- Criss Angel's Building Float
- Criss Angel's Levitation
- Asrah levitation
- Balducci levitation
- King Rising Levitation
- Chair suspension
- David Copperfield's flying
Utilities/Accessories
There are thousands of devices used by magicians to accomplish their effects. However, most of the devices are never even observed during the performance of the trick(s); while not generally tricks in and of themselves, some of these devices are very valuable to performers of magic.
- Topit
- Sponge Balls
- B Screens
- The A.R. Mini Stage[1]
- Funkenring[2]
- Business Card Production Wallet[3]
References
- ^ "Hocus Pocus Parade". The Linking Ring (The International Brotherhood of Magicians) ?? (?): ?. ????.
- ^ Reeder, Brad; Robinson, Bill (1986). Sparks: The Funkenring Book. Coastal Magic.
- ^ "Hocus in Focus". The Linking Ring (The International Brotherhood of Magicians) 80 (2): 111,112. February 2000.
|
|||||||||||||||||||
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
