How do you perform the illusion of cutting someone in half with magic?

Answer 1

I do not know how this morbid illusion works, but the less violent and more subdued Roltair"s Illusion is more easily explained. a real, if modifed casket is used and it has a retractable false bottom and movable internal partitions. when the lights are down low and the smoke bomb or other diversion goes off, the girl goes down into the normally closed lower half of the coffin, and in some variant, ducks under a hollowed-out trap door in the Bier- or coffin stand. then she might pull something to flood the upper, normal half of the coffin with flowers when it is opened and she has vanished. the girl repeats the procedure in reverse to return to live setting. It is sacrilegious and pokes fun at the dogma of the Assumption. a church art piece in Hoboken can be interpreted as either the Assumption dogma as understood- or Roltair"s illusion. leave the latter one alone! It was banned from all church carnivals in l968 by Archbishop Boland and this made interesting secular headlines- Bishop bans Lewd Carnival act!