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The magician shows the audience the poster from all sides, then tears it in half (Fig. 39).

Focus Riddle of the torn poster
Fig. 39

He puts both halves together and tears them in half again. This is repeated several times. The performer crumples the resulting pieces in his hands; Having shown the audience a crumpled, torn poster, he immediately begins to straighten the lump. Gradually, a completely complete poster appears in his hands, which he straightens and shows to the audience.

Props:

Two identical posters.

Focus secret:

The secret of the trick is in the preparation of the posters. One of them is placed on the table and with strong glue a line is drawn on it in the form of an arc (Fig. 39,5). This is the future pocket. Then a second one is placed on the poster and the hand is passed over the place where the strip of glue is applied. The posters should be folded so that the front side of the first one is facing down, towards the table, and the front side of the second one is facing up. In other words, the posters must be glued together with their reverse sides. The glue should dry well. After this, one of the posters is crumpled until a lump is obtained, approximately equal to the size of the pocket outlined with glue. The lump is placed under a press so that it is as dense as possible and takes up less space. When showing an entire poster to the audience, the magician must skillfully hide the crumpled one so that one cannot even suspect its existence.

The poster should be shown easily and naturally. Tearing it, the performer carefully crumples the pieces and gradually puts them near the pocket on the back side of the second, prepared poster. Then he begins to smooth out and straighten the entire poster. In this case, you need to put the torn pieces in your pocket and hide them behind your hand. When smoothing out an entire poster, the performer carefully hides the torn one in his pocket, and if unsuccessful, squeezes the pieces under the thumb of his right hand so that the other four fingers of the hand lie on the front side of the poster and are visible to the audience. He held his hands in this position when tearing the poster (see Fig. 39, A).

This trick can be performed without a pocket. The carefully crumpled “poster double” is hidden by the artist under his vest, while the poster itself is casually shown to the audience. You can even throw it up. When tearing a poster, you need to skillfully and quietly, under its cover, take out a crumpled spare poster from under the side of the vest and just as quietly bring it under the torn one. Then, having crumpled up the torn poster, the magician begins to straighten the one taken out from under the vest and, under its cover, hides the just torn one under the vest or in his pocket.

This seemingly simple trick requires a lot of training and skill. You need to work out all your movements very well so that they are clear and mask your manipulations from the audience.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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