We all know that Magic is a form of illusion,
and what we're seeing isn't real.
But still, when some of the greatest magicians
take centerstage,
we forget everything and are deeply involved
in their performance
and just can’t figure out what's going on.
But not anymore, as these highly guarded secrets
will be finally revealed.
So, be it Dynamo’s famous sky-high levitation
trick or
Coin through a Glass Trick,
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Today, we’ll be revealing some of the greatest
magic secrets of all time – Part 5
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So, let’s see the truth behind these outstanding
tricks.
Smoothini, the bar magician in America’s
Got Talent,
tricked the judges and audience with his amazing
salt trick by disappearing salt in his palms.
And then getting it back again.
The secret here lies in the thumb cap that
Smoothini wears over his thumb
that is most often visible in the camera,
when had a careful look at his thumb.
To perform the trick Smoothini starts by moving
his thumb onto the palm and fisting his fingers
around it.
He then gently takes out his thumb, by keeping
the thumb-cap in his fist.
Now, he pours the salt inside his fist and
takes out the thumb cap from the fist by moving
his second hand thumb inside the fist.
The thumb-cap is now on his thumb of the other
hand and the salt is present inside it.
He goes on to repeat the trick several times,
thereby making the judges and audience believe
that he could actually make the salt disappear
in his hands.
Jamie Raven, the famous magician from Britain’s
Got Talent,
magically brought a gold fish in a glass of
water.
Wondering how!
So, let’s get to the secret.
The secret here lies in the handkerchief he
uses to cover the glass of water,
There’s a small pocket designed in the handkerchief
to hold the gold fish.
He gets the pocket placed over the glass and
gently opens it, to let the gold fish fall
inside the water.
And to make the magic happen!
Now you also, must have a question, as to
how come the gold fish was alive in the handkerchief
without water?
So, here’s an interesting fact for you,
Gold fish can actually breathe directly from
air outside of air, as long as the gills of
gold fish remains moist.
Dynamo performed one of the greatest levitation
acts ever performed by any other magician,
of levitating 1,016ft above the streets of
London at top of the Shard.
But if we take a closer look at what actually
happened while filming this trick,
Then it’s not a magic trick, but a clear
result of filming and photography.
The set was already prepared to film this
trick with cables attached to Dynamo, to pull
him upwards and make the sense of levitation
to the audience.
Dynamo stood in a mysterious position, seeming
to gather his supernatural powers.
He was then lifted up in the air using the
cables attached to him and finally making
him to levitate in between the clouds.
An obvious question that might struck your
mind is that, where are the cables in the video?
The video before being aired had went through
complete color correction and editing, which
hides the cables and gets that merged in to
the background.
Here’s the comparison of actual image and
the image after editing.
The entire trick was shot from a helicopter
hanging up in the air above Dynamo, through
various different camera angles, to avoid
the cables being appearing in the video.
So, this makes it clear that it is no more
a magic to levitate in the air, but
hat’s off to Dynamo who made it look real.
And what do you think?
Is it possible in real to levitate up in the
air for any normal human?
Coin through glass is neither a magic nor
a gimmick.
It completely depends on the amount of your
practice and perfection of performing this
in front of the audience, without being caught.
At first the magician holds the coin in his
palm and shows the audience that it’s a
real and no gimmick coin.
Also, the glass used does not have any hole
at its bottom to transfer the coin inside it.
The magician uses the sleight of the hand
to pass the coin in the glass when placing
the glass over the coin.
This magic requires a breath-taking patience
and practice before you perfect on it,
and start performing in between people.
Illusionists and magicians for quite a while
have displayed their power of mind using the
spoon bending trick.
The magician holds the spoon in his fingers
and slowly bends it.
How about you trying this trick if provided
a spoon.
Can you bend it?
If no, then here’s the secret to make it
easier for you to try out this trick.
The trick here is to have an already bent
spoon and a straight stem only part of the spoon.
The magician holds the already bent spoon
in his hand such that the bent part is hidden
behind his fingers.
And he holds the stem part such that it’s
the straight stem of the spoon that he holds.
Then gently releasing the grip of the stem,
makes it to fall down thus making the illusion
of a spoon being bent using the magicians
mind power.
Harry Houdini, the great mystifier of magic
performed the astonishing illusion of passing
through a brick wall
in July 1914, and making the sensation of
his mystifying magic in the city of New York.
The trick was real secret for quite a while
and was only performed by Houdini for quite
a few times.
In this trick, a brick wall was made on the
center of the stage.
Genuine audience were called upon the stage
to test the brick wall for its authenticity
and toughness.
After the final test of the brick wall by
the audience, screens were placed by Houdini’s
assistants on both sides of the wall.
And now the magic begins before the audience.
Houdini enters the screen on one side, passes
through the wall and shouts out loud as “Here I am"
by raising his hands above the screen
on the other side of the wall.
The screen is then removed by his assistants,
thus finally revealing Houdini to the audience.
But how did he actually pass through the wall?
Well, here’s the secret.
Houdini entered the screen on one side, then
after a while fake hands are made to rise
up from the other side of the wall using ropes.
Houdini shouts for “Here I am, Here I am”,
which makes the illusion that Houdini has
indeed passed to the other side.
But being on the same side, Houdini disguises
himself as one of his assistants.
Now, along with his assistants, he moves to
the next side in disguise, and gets behind
the screen.
Now he undresses himself back to his looks
and the screen is removed.
Thereby finally revealing Houdini to the audience.
So, this is how Houdini passes through the
brick wall.
Now this magic trick will leave you out in
a true puzzle.
Have a look before we reveal the secret.
Can you guess what the trick here is?
In this magic trick the magician uses a jug
that has a smaller jug fitted inside it.
The smaller jug has a hole near the outlet
that moves the liquid in the gaps between
the two jugs and thus not actually allowing
the liquid to get poured in the newspaper cone.
At the end, the magician finally crumbles
the paper and gives it away in the audience
to make it sure that the liquid has indeed
vanished.
David Blaine the magician known for his horrifying
magic tricks, once performed the magic of
passing a cigarette through a coin to amaze
the audience around him.
The coin used by David Blaine for this trick
was a gimmick coin that actually had a hole
in its center through which the cigarette
was passed.
When we take a close look at the back of the
coin,
the coin flips open from the center when pushed
with the cigarette from the other side.
After passing the cigarette through the coin,
David then instantly switches the gimmick
coin with a real coin before passing it to
the audience for the final check whether the
coin is real or not.
The most famous American magician David Copperfield
performed the illusion in which he made Statue
of Liberty to disappear from the background
of the stage and then reappear back again.
The entire trick was a perfectly planned illusion
created with the camera shot angles and lights.
To pull off the trick, giant screen was raised
onto the stage to cover the statue of liberty
before the audience.
The stage along with the entire audience setup
was moved slowly towards right and the backdrop
was made to fall thus making the statue of
liberty disappeared.
The setup was then moved back to its original
position to make the statue of liberty to
appear again.
The lights on the stage was set such that
nothing could actually be guessed as to what
exactly is happening in the entire trick.
Also, the loud music vibrations distracted
the audience in the process.
So, you must have question in your mind, as
to how come the audience did not notice the
movement of the stage?
As explained earlier the trick was a completely
pre-planned trick in which the complete setup
which consisted the audience and stage was
moved very slowly.
That was a really great illusion created by
David Copperfield and stayed secret for a
long time to the audience.
Now finally at the number one magic trick
in our list,
Richard Jones, the winning contestant magician
from Britain’s got Talent
in his final magic act performed the card
trick in which he tore the signed card by Amanda,
Then burnt the pieces of card
to get the original card back.
So how did he actually perform this amazing
trick?
Here’s the secret.
The card on which Richard took the sign of
Amanda was actually two cards stuck together
from one corner.
If you look carefully, he first folded the
card in half
then opened it back again
and folded it downwards to half.
He then tore the card in four pieces
thereby keeping the original card folded at left hands top corner.
Very carefully he took the torn pieces behind
his fingers of other hand and kept inside
the pocket in his jacket, with the act of
getting a lighter.
Now, he only burnt the extra edges of the
piece of card which remained stuck over the
actual card and then blew off the fire.
Finally when he opens it up we get the actual
signed card by Amanda.
