Tricks and magic made easy, by Edward Summers Squier, M.A (1919)
Squier, Edward Summers · New York, E.J. Clode · leaf 187
two mirrors be-tween the legs are shown by a b and c b.The opening between the legs a c is towardthe audience. The spectators see in thesetwo mirrors reflections of the side walls [1851 Tricks and Magic Made Easy of the recess, but they believe that theysee the back walls of the recess behind… … Fig. 46. A striking achievement of the magicianis the apparent overcoming of the law ofgravity, so that a woman rests in the airin a horizontal position, supported onlyby one elbow on the top of a rod. Thisis accomplished by the use of a metalframework worn beneath the dress. Thestructure is such…
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