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On the illusion table lies a sheet of paper rolled up into a tube. The performer takes it, unfolds it and shows it to the audience. Viewers see that it is a blank sheet of paper. Then the magician rolls a pound out of it. Holding it with his left hand, the performer shows the right hand to the audience. There is nothing in the hand. The performer makes such a movement with it, as if he had caught something in the air and put it in a pound. Having invited an assistant to the stage, the performer overturns a small pound over the tray, which she holds in her hands, and bright flowers fall out of it (Fig. 24).

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Fig. 24

After that, the magician unfolds the funky and again shows the audience a blank sheet of paper. Then he again makes a pound out of it and passes it to his left hand. With his right hand, which he first shows to the audience, the performer again, as it were, catches something in the air and puts it in a pound. He again knocks the pound over the tray held by the assistant, and flowers again fall from the pound. The artist does all this for the third time. Having filled the tray with flowers, the performer unfolds the funky and once again shows the audience a blank sheet of paper.

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To demonstrate this trick, you will need a sheet of Whatman paper the size of a newspaper page and 60-70 paper flowers. This number of colors must be divided into three parts. Each part is placed in a box. One pack is placed somewhat away from the left corner of the paper sheet, the second - away from the right corner, and the third - in the middle of the sheet. Now you need to cut three paper strips. Each paper strip is placed like a belt across the petals and its ends are glued to the paper sheet with pieces of plaster (Fig. 24, B).

Thanks to this, all packs of flowers will fit snugly against the paper sheet. And this makes it possible to twist and fold the sheet as you like.

Having prepared a paper sheet for demonstrating the trick, it is rolled up into a tube so that the bundles of flowers are inside, and placed on the illusion table. The tube is unrolled, holding a sheet of paper with both hands and turning its clean side towards the audience. Then a funnel is made from the sheet and, turning it upside down, twist the corner. This especially convinces the audience that there is nothing in the pound.

Having made a movement with his right hand, as if he was catching something in the air, the performer, putting an imaginary object into the pound, inserts his right hand into it and quickly tears off the paper belt from one of the packs of flowers. Freed from the girdle, the flowers open and fill the bag. Having invited an assistant, the performer pours the contents of the pound onto the tray. Then he does the same movements a second and a third time.

The production of flowers deserves special attention. They are made from tissue paper like paper balls for the Christmas tree. The shape of flowers can be any - and spherical and elliptical. The outer petals of each flower should be made green, and the inner petals should be of different colors, but always bright. Flowers should be easy to fold when "charging" and quickly open at the right time. They achieve this with the help of an ordinary clock spring from a damaged alarm clock. Such a spring is a thin plate twisted into a spiral. Unwinding it, cut off pieces 4-5 cm long from the spring. Each of them is bent in half. There should be as many segments of the spring as there will be colors.

Each bent plate is placed on the middle of the petal (Fig. 24, D) and glued with the second petals. The outer petals of both halves of the flower are double, and the plate is laid between them. Thanks to this, the flower can be easily folded and attached to a paper sheet. Now it is only necessary to release the flower from the girdle, as it will instantly open.

Author: Akopyan A.A.

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