Incredible tricks of David Copperfield and their exposure. The most amazing tricks

September 16, 1956 was born David Seth Kotkin, who became famous under the pseudonym David Copperfield. During his career as an illusionist and hypnotist, David has amazed audiences many times by performing inexplicable tricks. We decided to recall five of his most amazing tricks.

1. Any self-respecting magician has tricks with disappearances. These can be items, assistants, or the magician himself. In 1983, David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear in front of thousands of spectators. This trick was included in the Guinness Book of Records. There are several versions of how the trick was performed, including the use of a turntable, video editing and the play of light. There is also an opinion that everything that happened is a grandiose hoax with dummy spectators and a model of the Statue of Liberty. Video in English.

David Copperfield. Disappearance of the Statue of Liberty. There are several versions of how the trick was performed, including the use of a turntable, video editing and the play of light.

2. Another trick, where David Copperfield flew over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, was shown to the viewer in 1984. Since then, he has flown in front of the audience on stage. In order to show that the flight is real, without the use of belays and cables, he flies through rotating hoops, flies into a glass box and continues to fly in it. From show to show, Copperfield can use a trained falcon, fly with a volunteer girl in her arms, like Superman. Among the versions that reveal the secrets of this trick, there is such that bundles of ultra-thin, but strong fibers are attached to the magician's body in a special way. Moreover, they are attached in the region of David's belt, where the center of gravity is located. That is why all vibrations from lifting the human body up are extinguished, and the movements of the magician in flight are unconstrained. The video below shows how Copperfield does it.

David Copperfield. Flying. Levitation or thin line?

3. In 1990, the magician was thrown into the water just a few meters from Niagara Falls. The raft with Copperfield fell from a 53-meter height onto the stones at the foot of the waterfall and did not crash. Moreover, on this raft Copperfield was chained in a makeshift coffin. Spectators saw the magician after he was pulled out of the water by a helicopter, holding on to the rope. Skeptics point to some inconsistencies that prove that instead of Copperfield, a stunt double fell into the falls. For example, during a trick in the video, you can hear the magician talking to his assistants, while in the immediate vicinity of the waterfall, nothing should be heard for several kilometers due to the sound of falling water. Yes, and they pulled out absolutely dry from the water of Copperfield.

David Copperfield - The Niagara Falls Challenge.flv. A raft with a magician fell from a height of 53 meters onto the rocks at the foot of the waterfall and did not break.

4. Even experienced debunkers of tricks cannot guess how David Copperfield passed through the Great Wall of China. On one side of the wall was a raised podium, covered on both sides with a white cloth. Copperfield entered the wall and exited from the other side to the same podium. Some argue that that part of the wall was used where there is a breach, which was laid by "bricks".

David Copperfield. Passing through the Great Wall of China. How he did it - even experienced debunkers of tricks cannot understand

5. No less spectacular is the "Saw of Death" trick. David lies face down on the table, and the assistants cuff his legs, torso and arms to the table and close him in a box. A huge circular saw is installed above it, which starts working and slowly descends. David has exactly one minute to free himself and get out before the saw cuts him. He does not have time, he starts fussing and the saw cuts him exactly in the middle. After a few seconds, he raises his head. A second later, two assistants push the halves of the table into different sides, on one lie the legs, and on the other - the torso. Both halves are brought to each other, a cry is heard from the hall: "move your legs!". David looks at his legs and in a second they start to move! After which he starts the mechanism in the opposite direction, the saw begins to spin, the halves are connected, the box closes David and his legs, and in a second he rises unharmed. The secret of the trick, according to skeptics, is hidden behind the metal inserts in the recesses in the table and Copperfield has a secret assistant.

"And how is it done?" - a question that torments every second viewer after a masterfully done trick. Objects appear from nowhere and disappear into nowhere, the sawn coalesces, and the dead come to life. It is impossible to understand how this all happens! Or is it still possible?

How the ancient "miracles" worked

The art of focus dates back several millennia. So, in the Berlin Museum, an ancient Egyptian papyrus is still kept, in which folk tales on illusionary art relating to 2900 BC. uh! Wandering magicians roamed all over the world, surprising crowds of people with an unusual spectacle. Basically, this art was developed in India, Japan and China. world fame earned by Indian conjurers and fakirs. Priests of large temples, persecuting conjurers as representatives of the “devilish” art, themselves widely used their techniques and performed “miracles” for religious purposes. For example, against the background of smoking incense, with a flash of lightning and peals of thunder, the “devil” appeared, the doors of the altar opened themselves, statues of the gods grew out of the ground, and the sacrificial fire flared up by itself. Such effects had an impact on people, strengthening the authority of religion.

The possibilities of the genre expanded significantly in the 18th-19th centuries. by discovering new laws of physics and chemistry. From Egypt and Assyro-Babylonia, illusionary art came to Syria and Byzantium, from there it came to Russia. There, after the October Revolution, focal numbers began to be cleared of tinsel, deliberate mystery and mysticism. Swallowers of swords and frogs, pseudo fakirs, "kings of chains", "Egyptian magicians" and imitations of hara-kiri disappeared. The recognized masters of focus are Alli-Vad, Kio, M. Marches.

Now a lot has been written about the secrets of performing tricks. Some feel that exposure is "killing" the genre. After all, magic tricks are interesting because they make the viewer think about their implementation. Although there is an opinion that partial exposure, on the contrary, contributes to creative searches and the creation of new tricks.
"It's all fairy tales!" - I'm sure Vitaly Savitsky, artist original genre, the winner in the nomination of audience sympathy at the festival of micromagic, held in Munich in 2002. He has been improving in this skill for 8 years.

Vitaly became a magician by accident. When he was working in a circus studio in Munich, it so happened that the main magician fell ill, and Vitaly had to replace him.
“The focus has its own foundations, the so-called classics of the genre: disappearance, appearance, transformation and sawing. Even if a woman is “sawed” in half in some other way, it will only be a new presentation, another interpretation of the trick. Therefore, you should not expose the tricks, - the artist believes. As long as there is mystery, intrigue lives on. When they become the property of the crowd, interest in them is lost.
Although Vitaly admits that he nevertheless revealed small secrets several times, but only to friends.

Flight without wings

Many laurels of successful illusionists are kept awake at night. One of these is a former magician, and now a whistleblower, Russian Timur Abdulov. He considered that the greatest David Copperfield leads the audience by the nose, and it is he who should open people's eyes. So Timur and his team set about exposing all the numbers of the American illusionist's program. They not only unraveled the secrets of tricks, but also experienced them for themselves. And in order not to do it ingloriously, they opened their own website, where they outlined the reverse side of the tricks. After some time, the page disappeared from the Internet space. It was rumored that Copperfield himself had a hand in this. Allegedly, he personally called the founder of the site with a demand to close the shop.

“I saw this site,” says Vitaliy Savitsky. - Regarding Abdulov, I can say that this person did not take place as a magician. That's why I decided to make a name for myself in a different way - by declassifying other people's numbers. And, in my opinion, not in the best way. All his revelations are just speculation. Technically, everything is much more complicated. I don't know why he does it. Maybe he wanted to make Copperfield's fortune by repeating his own tricks. But the copy is always worse than the original. It's important to be first."

Nevertheless, we will try to unravel the secrets of the most famous numbers of David Copperfield. So, the “flight”, for which he became famous, is his main strong point. enchanting shows. Long years people are scratching their heads over this amazing trick.

How many ridiculous versions he gave rise to ... Some believe that David is wearing chain mail made of magnets, which is affected by a special installation under the stage, which allows you to get off the floor. Others argue that the insidious illusionist introduces the audience into hypnosis, so people simply do not notice how assistants carry David almost in their arms. No one has come close to the solution. The main version of the secret is unique cables that are attached to a special Copperfield acrobatic belt. These threads are produced for space purposes by only a few factories in the world. Their thickness is slightly less than a millimeter, but they can withstand a load of about 100 kg! In the show, the threads are invisible due to fog and lighting. Above the stage is a winch (the most expensive part focus), she lifts David at different speeds, smoothly, without jerks. To prove to the audience that there are no cables, the number has two hoops that allegedly revolve around David. But, in fact, the rings pass under it, which can only be seen from the side of the stage.

Nevertheless, focus flight requires a certain physical preparation of the performer, so let's give Copperfield his due.

Disappeared train and "death saw"

The second no less famous trick of the American illusionist is the disappearance of the Orient Express. There is a wagon on the rails, around it the spectators, holding hands, form a living ring. The car is covered with a huge rag, after a moment it rises several meters into the air, the material is pulled together, and - bam! - the car is dissolved in the air!

Until now, many believed that a special wagon was built for Copperfield, which narrows and sinks underground. It's a delusion! The car leaves unnoticed by us. The whole secret is in the canvas, supposedly covering the car. The rag, in fact, remains hanging in the air, in the same place where the car was. It covers a special structure hanging on four cables. This structure, repeating the outlines of the roof of the car, lay on the roof of the train from the very beginning. The second nuance: the car is not covered completely - only one is covered side car with windows, which faces the camera, and one end. The rest of the sides and the roof remain open, but we don't see it - the focus is only for the TV audience. Thus, the car rolls out along the rails from under the dummy roof hanging on the cables and, thanks to the lack of lighting, successfully hides from our eyes.

Well, no less virtuoso trick - the legendary "saw of death", where David lies face down on the table, assistants chain his legs, torso and arms to the table and close him in a box. The saw placed over him starts to descend and saws the mage right down the middle. The assistants move the halves of the table apart, legs lie on one, and the torso of the illusionist lies on the other. Then the sorcerer turns the clock back, the halves are connected again, and in a second he rises unharmed ... How is this possible ?!

Here the riddle is "hidden" in the table! At first glance, it is quite thin, but this is an optical illusion. The table is black, but bright metal "sides" create the effect of subtlety. Further - David does not lie on the table itself, under it there is a special pocket about 45 cm high, it is in it that David hides his legs. It turns out to be a rather uncomfortable position, but, as we understand it, Copperfield's flexibility is all right. Everything is clear with the torso, but what about the legs?

With legs - the same. In the second half of the table, in a box, not the legs are hidden, but the body of the assistant. But he, unlike David, lies on his back, and bends his legs up. It remains to add that the place of the cut of the magician is a kind of artificial addition of the torso under the shirt. And where do the legs disappear at the end of the trick when the illusionist gets up? The second person occupies both boxes (he simply removes his legs from the table and stretches them inside the box in which David's legs were).

To dispel illusions completely, I will only add that at Copperfield's performances, the audience is forbidden to use magnifying devices, cameras and camcorders.

David did not invent most of the tricks, but bought them. And he sells the secrets of his tricks from old programs to the media for a lot of money.

“I was at the Copperfield show when he came to Moscow in 1997,” said Vitaly Savitsky. - I can only say that his show - good investment of money. Plus, the huge work of a large team: these are engineers, lighting technicians, people who create special effects, service staff, more than 80 people. It is also very important to know the psychology of the viewer. The success of Copperfield's programs is artistry, original ideas, precise mathematical and engineering calculations, as well as devices that cost a lot of money.

What's the secret?

disappearance from the cell.

In the circus, they often show such a trick: they put the girl in a cage, cover it with a cape, lift it up, and when the cover is pulled off ... the young lady is gone. Immediately, the light is directed to another cell, and - bam! - disappeared is there.

The answer: twins always participate in such numbers.

Hammer on the clock.

The spectator puts his watch into the trickster's bag. He takes a hammer and mercilessly beats on it, a terrible crack is heard. The audience is shown fragments of watches that are taken out of the bag. After a moment, the magician takes out an unharmed watch from the bag.

Secret: in fact, there are two bags. In one - pre-prepared glass fragments, screws, springs and the case of an old watch. He hit them with a hammer.

Rabbit in a hat.

This is perhaps the most famous trick that has become a symbol of illusionism as such. The magician places his empty top hat on the table. And a minute later he pulls a rabbit out of it.

Secret: the performer, placing the hat, combines it with the secret door in the table. The cauldron also has a secret hole. Through them, the magician gets the rabbit.

A tearing poster.

The audience is shown a poster, then torn in half. Fold the halves together, tear again, and so on until small pieces. In a moment, in the hands of a magician - again a whole poster!

Secret: in two identical posters. One of them, folded several times, is glued on the reverse side to the second to form a pocket. Then the poster is crushed into a lump equal to the size of the pocket. During the demonstration, the performer, covering his pocket with his hand, tears up the poster, carefully crushes the pieces, gradually collecting them with reverse side pocket. Then he straightens the whole poster, and discreetly hides the fragments in his pocket.

Levitation (floating in the air).

The magician hypnotizes the girl, puts her on the table, then she slowly rises. After that, the artist runs a special ring over the girl, proving that nothing is holding her up or down.

No matter how! You will never see this trick in the middle of a stage. There is always a lift behind the curtain. All that is required of the mage is sleight of hand with the ring.

"Resurrection from the dead".

The trickster shows a dead fly in his palm, makes several mysterious movements, the fly comes to life and flies away!

How it's done? A live fly is placed in a matchbox, then placed in a freezer for a couple of hours - the insect should fall asleep! When the fly lies on the palm, the warmth of the hand warms it, and it comes to life. The difficulty is only in determining how long it takes the fly to exit hibernation.

On September 16, one of the most popular and charismatic magicians in the world, David Copperfield, celebrates his birthday. He captivated the audience with his magic shows, in which he presented the most difficult and very spectacular tricks.

We decided to remember and show the most spectacular tricks Copperfield.

Fall from Niagara Falls

David Copperfield dared to conquer the world's largest waterfall - Niagara Falls. Many magicians did this, but, of course, David did the trick in his own way: he was tied to a board suspended on chains on a special raft, and closed on top with an iron box. For entertainment, the raft was also set on fire.

In order not to die in the waterfall, he had only one minute - of course, he used his time as needed.

Passage through the Great Wall of China

Succumbed to the magic of Copperfield and the famous historical monument- The great Wall of China. Of course, even here they could not do without special designs and boxes closed with a translucent canvas.

The device detected the magician's pulse rate, which made it possible to monitor his movements. And soon he effectively stepped inside the wall and appeared no less effectively from the other side.

Disappearance of the Statue of Liberty

The trick with the disappearance of one of the largest statues in the world and the symbol of New York also became one of the most famous of all Copperfield's tricks. Two towers were placed in front of the statue, and a veil was stretched over them. The veil completely enveloped the statue, and when it suddenly fell, the monument was not in its place. Lights illuminated the void. However, after the second lifting of the cover, the statue was again in its place.

The Mystery of the Orient Express

The Orient Express is a luxury train that ran between Paris and Istanbul in the 19th century. This luxurious composition often became the setting for novels and detective stories and was shrouded in secrets and mysteries. David Copperfield made one of the express cars disappear, and before that, with the help of a trick with cards, the viewers themselves chose the car that would disappear - or rather, David tried to guess their choice.

American illusionist and hypnotist David Copperfield managed to convince hundreds of thousands of people that magic is real. The eminent hoaxer became popular after the release of his author's TV show on the big screens.

On September 16, 1956, the owner of a clothing store, Hyman Kotkin, and his wife, insurance agent Rebecca (a native of Jerusalem), had a son, who was named David. The Jewish family lived in the city of Metachen, located in the state of New Jersey. From childhood, Copperfield was attracted by everything mystical and mysterious. As the illusionist himself recalls, a huge impact his future was influenced by his grandfather, who, in between studying the Torah and memorizing the psalms, entertained his grandson with card tricks.

At the age of 7, the boy, who perfectly mastered the technique of card fraud, performed in front of the parishioners of the local synagogue with a mini-show and received a standing ovation from the audience present at the performance. AT school years David continued to hone his skills as an illusionist, preferring to develop new tricks and tricks over classes. At the age of 12, the young magician joined the American Society of Magicians, becoming its youngest member.

At the same age, the British television series Joan Craft "The Life of David Copperfield" caught his eye, after watching which the future popular hypnotist decided on stage name. Few people know, but at the age of 16 Kotkin began teaching the art of magic to students at New York University. Having received a certificate of secondary education, David entered Fordham University, which he never managed to graduate from.

In 1974, an active guy received one of the main roles in the musical "The Magician" and, preferring creative self-realization to a diploma, left educational institution. In 1978 Copperfield moved from theater stage on television screens: an ambitious young man hosted the program “ABC Magic”, in 1979 he played minor role in the film Terror Train, and in the early eighties he released the author's program The Magic of David Copperfield. During the filming of the series, David decided at all costs to realize his long-standing idea with the creation of large-scale illusions.

Tricks and magic

David was assisted in all his stunts by his dedicated team of over 300 people. In the 1990s, when Copperfield was giving 50 performances a month, huge trucks loaded with his props crossed borders with special passes without inspection to keep the illusionist's secrets. As David's popularity grew, the scale of the illusions he showed to the public also increased. In 1983, a magician made the Statue of Liberty disappear for a few minutes.

People who saw this trick assumed that the image on the radar was an imitation, and that the spectators who watched and admired the trick were actors. Copperfield whistleblower from Russia Timur Abdulov explained that the audience is real, and the only montage is an empty pedestal of the Statue of Liberty taken from a helicopter. The rest has been achieved simple shutdown light around the sculpture. To prevent the statue from being seen, the spotlights on which the curtain was fixed were directed towards the audience present at the show.

In 1984 creative biography Davida added another trick. That year he flew over the Grand Canyon in Arizona. After a test flight, levitation became an integral part of the magician's ideas. It is noteworthy that on stage Copperfield flew through rotating hoops and flew into a glass cube from time to time, indirectly proving that the matter is in magic, and not in the ropes on which the illusionist is supposedly suspended.

Nevertheless, skeptics believe that the illusionist is suspended from a special crane using special thin cables with a diameter of less than 1 mm. Such thin cables can withstand up to 100 kg, and they cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Another trick by David Copperfield is the passage through the Great Wall of China (1986). A special tent was set up near the wall, into which the magician entered. On the walls of the tent for spectators outside, movements were projected in the form of shadows, allegedly created by the magician himself until he entered the wall. During the disappearance, David was hiding in a special secret compartment at the bottom of the tent.

When transferring the structure to the other side, the exact same trick with shadows was done. As a result, David, who had been in a specially prepared hiding place all this time, had only to crawl out of the bottom and out of the tent in front of the astonished audience, forcing them to believe in a miracle that had happened.

It is worth noting that not all performances, during which Copperfield played with death, ended successfully. So, in 1984, at the rehearsal of the "Escape from Death" trick, the hypnotist was chained and placed in a container of water. Copperfield got tangled in the chains and choked. The illusionist was pulled out of the water only after 1 minute 20 seconds. In the hospital, it turned out that the artist was not freed from imprisonment due to the fact that he pulled the tendons of his arms and legs.

Personal life

Despite the efforts of the master of disguise not to make his personal life public, crafty journalists always managed to find out the most juicy and scandalous details about the magician's communication with representatives of the weaker half of humanity. At one time, an affair with a blond German fashion model made a lot of noise. The whole world has been discussing for a couple of years love story which in fact did not exist.

The relationship between Claudia and David began at a time when Copperfield's popularity ratings were in decline. The PR manager of the artist Wendy Leyster, in order to return the client to the front pages of printed publications, signed a contract with the PR service of the supermodel. The essence of the agreement was that Schiffer, for a fee of $ 250 thousand, would play the role of Copperfield's bride, and the illusionist, in addition to the annual payment of the agreed amount, would regularly give gifts to his "beloved" as a bonus ( Jewelry, flowers), which also need to be flaunted.

The only thing that the charming blonde could not do in these pseudo-relationships was to appear in public with other men. Celebrities began dating in 1993, and in 1997 on the pages of a French magazine Paris Match a copy of the contract has been published. David said that the document was fake, and filed a lawsuit against the publication, and the model chose to remain silent. As a result, the romantic fuse of the stars lasted another two years, after which the couple broke up.

For a short time, David met with models Terry Holladay (from 1999 to 2000), Ambre Friske (from 2000 to 2002), Merili Journa (from 2002 to 2004) and Maria Petlichkova (2005).

On the this moment The 60-year-old artist is engaged to designer Chloe Gosselin. Copperfield met a charming Frenchwoman at a fashion show in 2006. In 2011, the chosen one gave birth to David's daughter, whom happy parents named Sky, and in 2012 the family moved from the bustling city to the island owned by the illusionist.

David Copperfield now

In March 2017, David appeared on Bravo TV's Top Chef Masters. As an invited expert, Copperfield assessed the culinary masterpieces prepared by the project participants.

In addition to visits television shows, film screenings and exhibitions, photos from which the artist uploads on Instagram and

Everything that a person cannot explain or understand causes genuine interest and surprise. Famous sorcerers and magicians have been keeping the intrigue for decades, not revealing to the audience the secrets of the most amazing tricks.

Modern magicians

For many centuries, representatives of this kind of activity do not cease to excite the public with their crazy performances. Today, illusionists give unforgettable emotions at their performances and shows.

David Copperfield

Of course, this is the most famous and talented illusionist, hypnotist of our time. The most amazing magic tricks and productions of David's team are such multi-scale illusions as:

• the disappearance of the plane, the Statue of Liberty and the carriage of the Orient Express train;
• travel to the Bermuda Triangle;
• flight through the Grand Canyon;
• passing through the Great Wall of China;
• escape from Alcatraz prison;
• fall from Niagara Falls;
• fire survival;
• "saw of death";
• release from the straitjacket.

The Saw of Death is a performance with a huge circular saw blade, 2m in diameter, set at a height of 5m. The magician is placed face down in a box on a table, where his head, arms and legs are fixed with fasteners. David has a hairpin to open locks and only 1 minute to free himself. Naturally, the allotted time is not enough, and the saw splits the illusionist's torso in half at the waist. After that, the assistants push the 2 parts of the table in different directions, move them around the stage for some time so that the audience in the hall can see all the designs. Both halves of Copperfield's body all this time demonstrate a variety of movements. Later, the assistants put the parts of the table together, at the same time the saw is turned on, and the hypnotist rises from the box without any damage.

Experts believe that the secret lies in the presence of recesses in the table, in which the assistant first lies down in such a way that the legs protrude outward. David himself lies down later, also in a certain position, leaving his torso on top. All this happens behind the walls of the box on the table. After "sawing", the viewer is shown the result - 2 halves of the body. Later, the table is connected, the walls of the box are raised, because David and his assistant have only a few seconds to quickly change the position of the body. At first glance, the table appears thin enough, but the team always uses mirrors during their performances to help hide the real structure. Considering that viewers are strictly forbidden to use magnifying equipment and lenses during the show, this version of the exposure is quite likely.

Today, there are many varieties, such as sawing a lying woman or splitting a person who is standing in a closet into parts (2 participants are involved in this trick or fake body parts are used), but no one has yet succeeded in repeating David's production.

This illusionist from the United States is known for his street performances, which quickly became popular with residents of many cities. Engaged in magic from a young age, most allots his time to grueling body and endurance training, which gave him the opportunity to become the author of many extreme tricks:

1. Burial alive in a plastic container for 7 days.
2. Freezing in an ice block for 64 hours.
3. Breath holding - 17 m 4 s (world record).
4. Stay in a box without food over the river Thames - 44 days.
5. "Drowned" - a week in a spherical aquarium.
6. "Vertigo" - I was able to stand without the use of insurance for 36 hours on a column 22 m high.

This list can go on and on, as the man never ceases to impress the audience with amazing tricks, which is confirmed by the appearance of a new video on the network. David also continues to practice other things that prove that there is no limit to human capabilities.

One of the most amazing tricks in the world is the transformation of American banknotes. At one point, Blaine manages to turn 5 one-dollar bills into the same amount of 100 dollars. The magician happily distributed money to people affected by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The experts could not come to a consensus regarding the exposure.

Some visitors to the mall found it hard to watch such an amazing trick as removing his front teeth. Passing by a young girl, the master of illusion removed several teeth from her mouth with his hands. Later, after some manipulations, he managed to return them to their place, after which the American was in a state of shock for a long time. The most popular version of this show's secret reveal is a fake girl-actor and a completely staged action.

David's arm piercing trick may seem shocking to many. With a long sharp needle, the magician pierces his biceps through and through, and later offers the audience to help pull it back out. There is no blood at all, the illusionist feels good. Critics and experts put forward several versions of the disclosure of this issue:

1. Good knowledge of the anatomical features of the muscle structure.
2. The puncture is carried out only at a certain point along a previously implanted safe channel inside the muscle.
3. Penetration does not occur at all due to the specific structure of the spoke.
4. The puncture is for real - due to the training of Blaine's body to the maximum possible level, this is quite possible.

Another option that many use is the forearm piercing. thin rod or a spoke. It is clear that there will be no puncture as such; such a simple but amazing trick can be performed even at home after a few workouts. On the inner surface of the forearm of the hand, it is necessary to apply a certain amount of glue with a brush, for example, you can use wallpaper glue, for gluing rubber, and others. The main criterion is transparency and invisibility on the skin after drying. Place the needle on this area, move it so that the sticking and fixation of the rod with the skin on both sides occurs.

For show, some magicians use a needle that is hollow inside, at the tip of which is a small pear with a red liquid. When moving the needle up and down, you need to imperceptibly press the pear, after which “blood” flows out of the hole in the needle, located approximately in the middle.

There are many amazing coin tricks on the net. Like many illusionists, Blaine also uses similar tricks in his performances. One of the most famous is coffee with change for a tramp from an American city. On the street, the magician approached a dark-skinned man and took his paper cup of coffee. Before the eyes of the astonished audience, the glass was filled with coins. The joy of the tramp knew no bounds! As it turned out later full staging, the glass was prepared in advance. The secret lies in the double bottom of the container, which was filled in advance with a trifle, and then coffee was poured. The drink was not chosen by chance - dark color helps to hide the contents inside, you can also choose Coca-Cola. With a deft movement, the magician from below presses on the bottom-blende, after the coffee flows out, coins remain in the glass.

To repeat at home, you need to use only chilled coffee!

Hans and Helga Moretti

This married couple knew how to prepare and make an amazing trick with a crossbow. The bottom line was that the husband makes shots from this type of weapon in the direction of his wife, who has a target on her head - an apple. Hans, with a crossbow in his hands, spins around its axis for some time, while Helga rings a bell over the fruit, directing her husband to the sound. The worst thing is that the man performed this trick blindfolded. The Moretti couple carefully concealed the secret of their success, but some skeptics accused them of props used equipment. Moretti's 3 children continued the professional path of their parents, becoming well-known illusionists in Germany.

They say that in 25 years of joint performances, Helga was twice injured of varying severity.

This famous American duo gained popularity after their TV show and action show called "Catching a Bullet". At the beginning of the show, viewers are invited to mark the bullets with a marker so that at the end of the test, no one has any doubts about its authenticity. Men in bulletproof vests, protective helmets and goggles aim their revolvers at each other (at a red laser dot), shoot through the glass and show a bullet caught in their mouths. This amazing trick and its secret caused heated debate among skeptics and experts, but experts called it legitimate.

This technique has been done for several generations of sorcerers, so its exposure has long been known. It is believed that the bullets are not real, but are made of wax and painted with special paint. The marks put by the audience are usually similar: dash, circle, smiley. Moreover, they are deliberately loudly voiced by one of the participants so that the assistants behind the scenes can quickly mark real bullets. While putting on body armor next to the hanger from behind the curtain, assistants pass the marked bullets to the participants in the mouth. The whole performance is accompanied by a distracting conversation about safety measures when using firearms. After firing blanks, Penn and Teller show the "caught" bullets.

This illusionist, who is also called Dynamo, staged a performance on the Thames - he managed to completely cross the river. One of the explanations for such a show is considered to be the immersion of a perspex platform at anchor, along which this walk was made. The Thames was not chosen by chance - the water in the river is very dark and dirty, so it hides the entire structure well.

Swallowing various sharp objects, probably, will not surprise anyone, but swallowing a drill of a working hammer drill is not an easy task. Blackthorne managed to do this, and he also holds the Guinness World Record nomination for holding the heaviest object with his throat - a hammer drill weighing 38 kg and a drill diameter of 24 mm.

With cards

Amazing tricks with cards is the first step for beginners, which will help to master dexterity, memory, attention and concentration. To begin with, you need to choose simple tricks, constantly complicating the level of complexity. On the network, you can easily find a training video with a detailed step-by-step description.

It is considered the easiest, but amazing trick that even a beginner can do. Requires a deck playing cards(36 pcs.), Pre-select 4 aces from which and place them on top. Divide the deck into 4 approximately identical piles, there should be a pile with aces on the left or right, which must be monitored. In the last column, where there are no aces, remove the top 3 cards, place them on the bottom of the deck. Then, removing 1 card from above, it is necessary to cover the remaining 3 piles with it. Do this 3 more times with the remaining piles, including the one containing aces. Turn over the first card of each column - 4 aces should be on top.

The Magic of Numbers

For those who cannot imagine their life without numbers and equations, it will not be superfluous to get acquainted with amazing mathematical tricks. Also, school-age children will be happy to solve such exercises.

Find out the date of birth

In each company or team, you can easily guess the date of birth of any of those present. To do this, you need to select a participant, ask to multiply the number of his birthday by 2, add 5 to the result, multiply the result by 50. Add the number of the month in which the participant was born, and say your result aloud. The leader needs to subtract 250 from this number, it will turn out three or four-digit number, this will be the day and month of birth.

The algorithm is the following:

1. X, Y are the day and month of birth, respectively.
2. X*2+5.
3. (X*2+5)*50.
4. (X*2+5)*50+Y=Z.
5. Z-250=date of birth.

With coins

There is a significant variety of such tricks, the main requirement for learning which requires perseverance and focus. Even half an hour of training in some maneuvers and movements will give an excellent result in the form of an amazing trick with a coin.

Classical

The coin is shown to the viewer right hand, then imperceptibly moves to left hand and in a moment it is not there. And it is again in the right hand. It is necessary to show from the right angle, that is, look at the palms straight from top to bottom.

Cigarette in a coin

You will need an ordinary cigarette and a special prop coin, the secret of which is the presence of a hidden hole in the middle. Pressing on the center of the coin opens a hole through which the cigarette passes freely. When performing, it is very important to take the correct angle so that the audience cannot see the back wall of the coin, but only the part of the cigarette protruding from it.

For kids

Today in a specialized online store or in almost any mall on sale you can find children's sets for magic and sorcery. Such a box includes ready-made props for use at home - a rubber finger, rings and ropes with a secret, foam bunnies and more.

You can also find many interesting and amazing magic tricks for children on the net that do not require much preparation or special props, or search thematic literature on the shelves of bookstores.

Slicing a banana without removing the peel

It is necessary to prepare a banana and a sharp needle. Pierce a banana with a needle and move it in any direction at a distance of 3 cm. Stepping down a little, the same puncture and incision is made inside the peel. Repeat the action until the entire fruit is cut. After cleaning it, the child will see the cut pieces.