TRICK EFFECT & ROUTINE: The performer suddenly craves food and takes a bite of a lighted candle, which portion he eats. He relights the candle and passes it for examination.
PREPARATION: A portion of a real candle is fitted with an apple top and brazil nut wick. The nut itself will burn if ignited.
MEATHOD: The magi, during the presentation of his magical performance notices a young lady making a feast of a box of chocolates and that by power of suggestion, the lady has caused quite a hungry feeling to come upon him, unaware. Without further hesitancy, he reaches to a lighted candle which has for some time been brightly burning in a candlestick, upon his table, and bights off the lighted portion; which he at once proceeds to chew, and swallow, much to the amazement and laughter of the audience.
COMMENTS: The upper part of the candle is, in reality, a piece of apple, cut to the proper shape, which has been held in place by a needle point. The wick has been made of a piece of a Brizil nut. This unexpected addition of mystic fun will help to make a magician's act impressive.
Trick Name: hanky from an apple
TRICK EFFECT & ROUTINE: You put a hole through an apple, then make a hanky dissapear and then reappear in the apple.
First of all you have the thumb tip and hanky in your pocket. Then you put the hole through the apple. Next you wrap the apple in a paper towel or some thing and set it on the table. Next, take the hanky out of your pocket and secretly put on the thumb tip. Then vanish the hanky however you like and then reach in the apple with your thumb, release the tip , and reach in the tip and slowly pul the hankerchief out.
The Balducci Levitation is an illusion that can be performed almost anywhere, anythime. It uses no wires, strings, rigs, camera tricks, etc.
The illustrations at the right show you the audience point-of-view.
This is a highly restrictive, angle-sensitive trick. You have to practice your angles over and over to get used to them. One bad angle or position and the illusion is blown!
In the television special "David Blaine: Street Magic" they show everyone having 'cows' over Blaine's levitation. What they don't show you are the countless times Blaine screwed the trick up. It is easy to get a bad angle - even more so when you're performing for several people.
Figure 1 shows the start of the illusion. Stand about 8 to 10 feet away from the audience at a 45° 'backward' angle (as shown in figure 1). You pause . . . and then slowly start to float (figure 2). You rise 3 to 5 inches off of the ground before you suddenly "crash" back down to the ground.
When performed correctly, this is about as close to "real" magic as you'd ever want to get. Figue 1
