Magic; stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography (1897)
Hopkins, Albert A. (Albert Allis), 1869-1939, Evans, Henry Ridgely, b. 1861 · London : Low · leaf 64
small sponge fixed within and saturated witli a red liquid. Wliile Ihe atten-tion of the spectators is absorbed by this exciting operation, the little Indianescapes from beneath the robe, and runs a short distance from tlie spectatorswithout being seen. Iloudin says that when this trick is well… … THE INDIAN BASKET THICK. 48 3IAG1C: STAGE ILLUSIONS AND SCIENTIFIC DIVERSIONS. DECAPITATION. The means employed in this illusion is the old-fashioned defunctmethod of decapitation, and although this lacks the refinement and scientificinterest of execution by electricity, it has a certain precision.…
Magic tricks
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