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Turning a snake into a stick. Focus Secret

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You have in your hands a snake wriggling and moving all parts of its body. And suddenly in your hands it turns into a straight and whole stick.

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The snake that turns into a stick is not real, but artificial, but it has all the properties of flexibility inherent in a snake. It is made of braided cord, which is filled with small cylinders carved from wood. There are holes made in them through which a very strong fishing line is passed. It is attached to the cones at the ends. If you hold such a snake freely, the cylinders sag. As soon as you pull one of the cones at the end, the snake becomes straight and hard, like a stick.

Take a piece of curtain cord about 40 cm long, from which the entire middle is removed. Only one braid remains.

Two dozen cylinders are turned from wood, each 2 cm long and 1,5 cm in diameter. Holes are drilled in the middle. All cylinders (they should have beveled, not sharp, but rounded edges and two cones) are strung on a strong fishing line with a diameter of 2 mm; A braid is put on top of them.

Focus Turning a snake into a stick

The ends of the fishing line and braid are secured tightly. The cylinders inside the braid should be at such a distance from each other that in an untensioned state the “snake” has kinks and bends easily, and as soon as one of the cones is tensioned, it becomes straight and elastic. Then the outside of the braid is painted (“snake-like”) green, eyes are drawn, etc.

Focus Turning a snake into a stick

When demonstrating a trick, convince the audience that you have a snake in your hands, throw it several times from one hand to the other, shake your hand so that both the tail and the head move. Then take one of the cylinders and pull it through the braid at the end, holding it between your little and ring (or middle) fingers and sliding your other fingers along the line.

This movement of the fingers will press the cylinders tightly together, and the snake will freeze, stretched out into a string. Be sure to tap the snake stick on the table, thereby emphasizing that the transformation has occurred.

You can have a real wooden stick in reserve - an exact copy of a special one - and at the end of the trick, having replaced the “snake”, hand it over to the audience for inspection. Or you can “turn” the stick into a snake again.

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