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Focus Description:

The illusionist lights a cigarette and, having lit it, calls one of the spectators out of the audience. Offers him the same to light a cigarette. The spectator undertakes to repeat everything that the magician will do. The performer shows him two small identical thin silk handkerchiefs and asks him to choose one of them. He chooses. The magician covers his left hand with the remaining handkerchief and makes a recess in the handkerchief with the finger of his right hand. The viewer exactly repeats all the movements of the performer.

The illusionist, smoking a cigarette, shakes the ashes into a handkerchief (Fig. 218, A). The viewer does the same.

Focus Fireproof handkerchief
Fig. 218

This is repeated three or four times, then the magician tears off the burning end from the cigarette and lowers it inside the left palm, puts the rest of the cigarette in the same place, carefully pushing it with his finger (Fig. 218, B). Following this, after a few seconds, the performer unfolds the handkerchief, and everyone sees that there is nothing there, but the matter is intact. At the same time, a cigarette butt falls out of a burnt handkerchief. The magician, as if not seeing the viewer's handkerchief, remarks:

- That's just how it's done. When you're with friends, show them this spectacular trick.

Props:

Two silk handkerchiefs measuring 20x20 cm.

Metal (aluminum) half-finger, worn on the index finger of the right hand.

Focus secret:

The secret lies in the aluminum device, extruded from thin metal in the shape of a finger, with the contour of a nail; of course, it is painted accordingly, the color of the hand. After lighting a cigarette and calling the viewer, the illusionist imperceptibly puts an aluminum half-finger on the index finger of his right hand. Making a recess in the handkerchief, he quietly removes and leaves a half-finger in it, into which he then shakes off the ashes and puts the cigarette butt, extinguishing the fire. While feigning to put a cigarette into a handkerchief, in reality he secretly puts this simple device on his index finger and takes it out.

Having shown the handkerchief empty, the performer quietly hides the half-finger in the pocket of the suit or puts it on the sideboard.

The half-finger is shown in Fig. 218, D. As we have already said, it is squeezed out of thin aluminum or soldered from two halves squeezed out of copper. You can also make a device out of papier-mâché, but then the half-finger will turn out to be thick, and viewers can easily notice it (Fig. 218, B).

Silk for scarves should be taken in dark beautiful tones and very thin. From one meter of silk with a width of 80 cm, 20 handkerchiefs come out.

A small note. The illusionist must try to burn his cigarette as much as possible: after all, the cigarette butt must be squeezed into the half-finger.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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