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A map hanging in the air. Focus secret

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Focus Description:

The artist gives the audience a deck of cards and asks them to carefully shuffle it. Offers to take out any card. The spectator takes out a card and shows it to everyone present. The magician is given a thread with a needle. He invites the viewer (to pierce the card from any edge and thread it, which he does. The card hangs on the thread.

The illusionist is given a hoop and asks the spectator to tie the card to the hoop so that it is in the center. The performer walks onto the stage holding the hoop high above the floor. The assistant takes out a burning candle, gives it to the magician and takes the hoop with the card from him. The performer sets fire to the thread and immediately gives the candlestick to the assistant, and from him he takes the ring with the burning thread. The thread burns out, but the card continues to hang in the air. The magician carefully removes the hoop and quietly passes it over (Fig. 76, A) the card, below, in front and behind, proving that it is hanging in the air. In conclusion, the performer shows the audience a map and a hoop.

Focus Map hanging in the air
Fig. 76

Props:

An ordinary deck of playing cards.

Needle with thin white thread.

Wooden hoop.

A candle in a candlestick, a box of matches.

Spool of black thread.

A small piece of soft wax.

Focus secret:

The secret lies in the black thread, stretched at an angle of 45 degrees. It holds the map, attached with small pieces of wax. To prevent the audience from noticing the thread, it is tied in advance to some heavy object, for example, to a box in which the load is enclosed. One end of the thread is attached on stage to the side wings, and the other end is tied to a box, which the assistant takes out during the previous number and puts it on a table set in advance in a certain place. Lowering the box, the assistant tries to tighten the thread more. A small piece of wax is in the magician's vest pocket.

The whole trick goes according to the description. When the performer passes the hoop to the assistant, he, wanting to stop the swinging card, imperceptibly attaches a piece of wax to the upper edge of its tick, which in turn is attached to the stretched thread. All this should be done quickly, naturally, so that the audience could not suspect anything. The white thread on which the map hangs is set on fire, and the candle with the candlestick is immediately taken aside so as not to illuminate the stretched black thread (Fig. 76, B). The magician, manipulating with the hoop, must lead it smoothly, otherwise the card may swing.

The lighting of the stage for this trick must be chosen in advance, checking from all ends of the auditorium to see if the threads are visible. The 45-degree inclination of the thread makes it very easy to guide the hoop around the card. When the illusionist takes the card, unobtrusively removing it from the black thread, the assistant watches over the box to which the thread is tied. During the next number, the assistant simply and naturally takes the box backstage.

Instead of burning the thread, it can just as well be cut with scissors.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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