Seattle Magicians Blog

Author: Dey Ette

Magic Tricks: Who doesn’t get impressed and attracted by magic?
Ranging from small kids to adults, the simple magic tricks
entertain them. But magic tricks are not something related to
powers beyond human’s reach. It is mere mastering the skills of
sustaining the attention of the onlookers while the ‘magician’
completes the well-practiced steps to achieve the magic. Thus
the onlookers are eventually convinced that they had witnessed
something supernatural rather than recognizing the tricks. Well
magic tricks cannot be termed as duping the onlookers; it
demands lots of practice and mesmerizing skills like talking
continuously while performing the trick to divert the onlookers.
With the job of magician briefed, it is time to have a brief
about performing simple magic tricks to impress friends and
family. With proper guidance and interest of the individual, one
can pull off a good magical performance. Though adults can see
right through certain magic tricks involving smoke or the trap
doors, it is a fact that there exist several unsolved magical
tricks all over the world. But to clarify once again, it has
nothing to do with witchcraft or supernatural powers; in simple,
those magicians had been really clever that they never let their
audience guess what had actually happened.

Types of Common Magic tricks: Most of the magic tricks involve
the conjuration with simple playing cards or the coins. Finding
the card which the onlooker picks from the pack of cards is one
of the most general one. As many will be aware, it is a simple
trick of noting the one below the card seen and returned by the
onlooker. Care must be taken while shuffling such that the two
cards do not separate. Then turning the cards to its face, the
card seen by the onlooker can be easily found. It may sound
simple once it is explained but the admirable part is most of
the magicians do not expose how they manage the particular
trick. Unless those are resolved, they can be called as magic
tricks. The next most general magic tricks are the ones dealing
with disappearance of persons or place, or to cut the assistant
in half, to fly without any support and so on. The list is
endless and it should be accepted that most of these tricks are
worth appreciating for the magician’s hard work and preparation;
nothing comes for free, even magic.

The ‘Magic’ of Magic Tricks: The differentiation between what is
trick and what is ‘real’ has always been fuzzy. Though most of
the simple magic tricks can be related to the cautious
mastermind of the magician, there have been several cases of
unsolved magic tricks such us instants when magicians made
famous places disappear for a while in front of hundreds of
onlookers. All over the history there are such unsolved puzzles
which still awe many. It is an agreed fact that there has been
no documentation to prove that these were ‘magic’ but at the
same time, there are no evidences to prove against it either.

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