Catching a pigeon with a net from the air. Effective trick and its solution

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Catching a pigeon with a net from the air. Focus Secret

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Focus Description:

The magician is given a large net on a long stick. The assistant takes out the cage. The audience can clearly see that it is empty. The illusionist waves the net, and immediately a dove appears in the net. The assistant opens the top of the cage. The performer transplants the bird there, tilting the net. The magician again waves the net, and again a dove appears in it (Fig. 172). The second dove, just like the first, he transplants into a cage.

Focus Catching a pigeon with a net from the air
Fig. 172

When catching pigeons, the illusionist does not touch the net of the net, and when transplanting into a cage, he does not come close to it, touching its bindings only with a net. Thus, the magician catches four doves. The cage with birds is carried into the hall and shown to the audience.

Props:

Net on a thick bamboo stick with a secret device.

Wire transparent cage for four pigeons with a secret device.

Focus secret:

The secret of the trick is divided into two parts: the secret of the net and the cage. The landing net is designed in such a way that if you wave it, lifting it up, then from the base (rod stick) a frame folding imitation of the figure of a dove is shown. The performer, slightly shaking the net, creates the illusion of a fluttering bird. Bringing the net close to the cage, he pushes the inner rod with the figure of a dove down with his hand, and the frame imitation enters the base of the net (Fig. 173).

Focus Catching a pigeon with a net from the air
Fig. 173

The handle of the net-stick is made of thick bamboo with a diameter of about 4-5 cm and a length of about 120 cm. The partitions between the knees of the bamboo are drilled inside for the passage of the rod L, shown in the figure by a dotted line. The rod is made of a rod with a diameter of 4-5 mm. One of its ends (lower) is tightly attached to ring B, which moves freely along the stick; notch B limits the movement of the ring and the rod both up and down. One hand of the illusionist is on the end of the stick, and the other is on the ring, holding it in the palm of his hand; when the hand moves upwards, the rod also moves along with the ring, which in turn pushes the frame of the dove D upwards from the small metal socket D, to which the net hoop is soldered.

The frame of the dove is made of thin spring wire, which is covered with a light white cloth and dimly painted to match the color of a living bird, depicting light contours of feathers. The imitation easily folds up and freely enters the socket D on the top of the stick.

Bringing the “trembling” “pigeon” in the net to the cage, the conjurer makes, as it were, a light throw with the net. But as soon as a real dove appears in the cage, he immediately removes the imitation into the socket.

The second secret of the trick is the design of the cage in which four doves appear. Its length is 40, its width is 25 and its height is 25 cm. A cell of a simple quadrangular shape made of nickel-plated wire with a cross section of 1 mm. Its top, when a dove is planted out of the net, rises, and at the moment the dove appears, it falls. The birds are loaded in advance into four compartments of the cage, which has an opaque wall 6-7 cm high. Each pigeon is in its own room, from where it is released using automatically opening doors. All this, of course, goes unnoticed by the audience.

At the moment when the magician brings the net with the "trembling pigeon" to the cage, the assistant slightly moves it towards the net, opens the top and at the same time presses the valve of the desired door, freeing the bird. At the same time, he shakes the cage slightly to help the pigeon get out of the room. Lowering the lid, the assistant lowers the valve at the same time, and the room door closes automatically. This is done with all four pigeons.

With skillful possession of a net, an imitation of a dove cannot be distinguished from a real one. The movements of the magician and assistant must be strictly coordinated, well rehearsed. Then even the most attentive viewer will not be able to distinguish an imitation from a live bird.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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