Magic common sense

There is no evidence to prove the correct origin time of magic, and it is speculated that magic has existed since human activities.

The origin of magic is religion and belief.

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In ancient times, people believed that everything in nature was manipulated by elves or gods, so wizards or priests took advantage of human superstition.

Science, making use of unknown principles to create miracles, makes people believe that these are done by elves or gods, and strengthens sects with magic.

The ceremony of teaching strengthened the believers' faith.

The earliest record of magic in history is in Egypt, about 2600 BC, that is, more than 4 thousand years ago.

Found in 1823

Huesca's manuscript records that a magician named Dade was called to perform for the Pharaoh.

He can cut off the goose's head and break it.

The goose that lost its head can still walk, and finally put its head back to the original goose.

According to the records, the magician also walked into the quail Peng and the bull.

Did the same trick.

But when Pharaoh asked him to perform the same trick on the prisoners, he refused.

Temples in ancient Greece also used the principle of magic.

For example, when the priest opens the door of the temple, the bellows will blow to the ground and appear on the altar.

Flame.

There are also talking idols made of wind pipes.

The earliest trick record is the cup-shaped sand ball, which is the oldest trick known at present.

In Egypt

It is also recorded in murals (tombofbaqtiiiatbenihasanb.c2500).

The true record of its historical performance can be traced back to

In the first century ad.

This trick was very popular in the Middle Ages and was widely performed by magicians.

Magicians at that time were called juggling.

Jogger, traveling performer, musician, poet and stunt performer go to the village open space to amuse themselves with simple tricks.

Villagers.

By the end of the Middle Ages, the magician's suffering began.

European magicians began to face strong opposition from the church.

Because people at that time

I believe in witchcraft and supernatural phenomena. In this superstitious age, any magic that is not recognized by the church will be considered as black magic.

As long as one person testifies, the magician will face trial.

All magicians are accused of making an alliance with the devil.

Despite persecution, magician is still a dangerous and popular profession.

Some magicians are favored by big noble, the big landlord.

And protection.

During this time, the magician who walks around can only perform limited tricks.

Playing cards were not common at that time, and they needed big ones.

The design of props is very expensive.

So magicians rely on dexterity and storytelling skills.

Tricks performed with birds and animals are very popular.

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Nearly 300 years ago, the persecution of magic by religion gradually deepened. During the reign of King Henry VIII of England, the punishment for performing magic was death.

By the end of 16, the persecution of witches reached the point of slaughter.

By letting these crazy behaviors go unchecked, the magician Chai H was threatened by his life. if

If you don't share the secret of magic, you may be executed.

So it prompted the birth of the first English magic book. 1584 [Witchcraft Exploration?

(TheDiscoveryOfWichcraft) The purpose of Regino Scott, the author of this book, is to save the magician's life in order to

As the difference between the magician's skill and the evil power of the witch, the book reveals many magical secrets to prove these seemingly miraculous signs.

In fact, it is achieved by some natural skills, not by evil forces.

Moreover, his works really separated Chai H's magician.

The fate of being burned to death.

Historically, as long as there are many people gathered, the magician's performance will be full.

In the eighteenth century, people often gathered.

Fang is an annual market.

All kinds of circus performances and stunts will come here.

But in this competition, the only star is the magician.

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The greatest magician of this century is Essex Fox.

He became famous in the1720s, and he can be seen in the main markets of every town.

Track.

Esek's classic magic is EggBag, from which eggs and small items are constantly taken out.

Go and see Fogg.

You have to pay a shilling for this performance.

He is the pioneer of this technique, so he has become a high-income earner and even a diehard supporter.

He died in 173 1 year.

During World War II, newspapers reported that he left a legacy of 1 10,000 pounds, equivalent to $6.5438+0,000 today, which shows how popular he is.

/kloc-In the 20th century, with the rise of theaters, magicians found a new stage.

He brought magic into the theater for the first time and became famous in the theater.

The first magician is a Scottish magician called "the Great Magician of the North", john henry Ender.

Sen (john henry janderson 18 14- 1874).

His innovative performance style influenced many magicians in later generations.

The magician combined his skillful hands.

Lighting and stage effects opened a new era of magic.

Magicians have reached the peak of history, and many magicians have responded to the theater.

Born.

/kloc-The end of 0/9th century is the golden age of magic show, and magic shows everywhere are full.

The magician wears a formal tuxedo.

Clothing, like the audience who went to the theater at that time, is also the origin of the magician wearing a tuxedo.

Some magicians even become household names.

Celebrity.

The most famous magician in the early 20th century was the legendary magician Hu (1874- 1926).

Dini, a household name in the United States, is good at performing escape, handcuffs, tights, milk cans, China dungeons, and most

The famous underwater escape.

Houdini was also a pioneer in exposing so-called psychics who used magic to deceive the public.

until today

People still remember his deeds.

However, the rapid development of the film industry in the 1930 s caused the rapid decline of the magic performance market.

Because in movies, any magic is possible.

Happen.

Only a real magician can fascinate the audience.

Nowadays, people's demand for magic is rising again.

Neon lights in Las Vegas have replaced ancient campfires.

Las Vegas

The development of entertainment centers such as Gass and the charm of TV have created a new generation of magic superstars.

These magic masters are expensive.

There are supporters all over the world, which magicians in the past could not imagine.

Today, magic can still satisfy people's surprise and entertainment.

The demand for music.

Magic tells us that life is full of surprises and dreams; It also tells us that everything may not be as it seems.

Just like that.

And believe that the history of magic will continue to develop into the more distant future with the history of mankind.

Second, the magic show

Before the magic show—

Choose a magic program that suits you (choose skilled ones, and don't change magic programs frequently).

(2) If you have an assistant, you should rehearse frequently to achieve the best cooperation and tacit understanding.

(3) Always check magic props, such as machine springs and other devices, and often add lubricants to keep them in normal operation.

(4) You need to arrive at the performance venue in advance, arrange the magic props backstage, take a break and get ready to go out.

Take a deep breath, be confident and walk onto the stage with a smile.

During the performance-

(1) Keep smiling and kind, and don't appear arrogant.

(2) the eyes should have a goal, not aimlessly. It is best to "catch" a front-row audience as a goal, but at the right time.

Turn your target to another audience.

(3) If you make a mistake carelessly, don't be at a loss, because what the audience may not find can be regarded as dramatic.

Go through the scene and make up for it with another set of magic.

(4) Pause at an appropriate time and let the audience applaud.

(5) At the end of the performance, bow politely, face the audience, slowly retreat and return to the background. Don't turn away.

After the performance-

(1) Put away all the magic props, clean up what you bring, and don't leave your waste in the background.

(2) Review the advantages and disadvantages of this performance (if possible, watch the video of your performance) so as to do it better next time.

4- 1 routine

Program, simply put, is to construct a magic show with various skills and props, words and acting skills.

One-man magic show

A program, which can't be called a program, at least causes a small * * *, and is a basic magic program.

Many programs are built together,

It became a performance program.

The program must be smooth and laid out.

Take the CupsandBalls program as an example. Three balls are in one of three cups.

The movement between rooms, although magical, is only to create the final * * *, which is the layout of the magic program.

As far as common sense is concerned, every move

In fact, it is a magical thing, but we should deliberately not let the audience feel how magical it is, but make the process full of fun.

Taste and mood fluctuate a little with the flow of the ball.

We must get the audience used to this small-scale performance until the end.

To their great surprise. ...

A movie will have a beginning, a contest and an ending, and the arrangement of procedures is similar.

So how do you polish the beginning and the end? There is a simple one.

Key points: at first, let people know you; Finally, let people remember you.

In the beginning, you should not only let people know about you, but also

Make people fall in love with your performance immediately.

In the middle process, we should pay attention to drama, not to say that we must play a drama, but to be like it.

Just like a play, there are ups and downs, and it is meaningless for a person to keep conjuring up a bunch of umbrellas. The key is what will come out when grinding and when.

If the machine is correct, changing three umbrellas will change the feeling of eight umbrellas, changing eight umbrellas will change the feeling of twenty umbrellas, and two supplementary cards will make people change seven or eight umbrellas.

The feeling of hundred calories.

Performance without design will only make people feel at sixes and sevens!

The following are the key points of the manufacturing process:

First of all, try to make everyone understand the performance clearly.

Second, the program time is moderate.

Third, the pictures of the performance should be varied.

Fourth, try to do * * *.

Fifth, first of all, we must have skilled performance skills.

4-2 Timing and Performance

Timing (time control):

For a simple example, if you do a coin disappearing method, then if you open your left hand immediately, it will show that the coin has disappeared, audience.

There may be no response because he doesn't know what happened.

However, if you still hold your left hand tightly, then say something and rub it slowly, then the audience will explode, because

For the audience, the coin was still in your clenched hand before it disappeared (so: fast, it is a fatal wound for men).

Master everything

Timing is very important, and so is magic performance. All the movements should be just right.

Performance:

If you open your left hand directly, there is no magic taste at all; But you're blowing with your left hand

Rub hands slowly open, the audience burst; Because of the action of blowing and rubbing hands, the moment before this disappearance, it seems

How amazing the hands you gave you.

Don't hesitate to use magic spells and actions, these acting skills are to create magic.

The key to the atmosphere.

4-3 Misleading-Misdiagnosis

The most mysterious trick in magic, and the professions that he is good at are: pickpockets, gamblers and swindlers.

The so-called misleading is to guide the audience's attention to where the magician wants them to pay attention, while ignoring other subtle parts.

Point, in short, is like manipulating and hypnotizing the audience.

There is a saying that eyes are quick and hands are quick, but people's eyes are actually very accurate, even if it is 1/24 seconds, that action.

Will leave an impression in the eyes, a person's hand is no faster than the eye's observation.

The audience said: [Wow! I saw his hand just now.

Come on! And "I don't know how he did it? There is a difference at this level.

So how to make good use of false guidance becomes a magician.

An important subject for students to study.

Fast action can not only deceive the eyes of the audience, but also arouse the psychological suspicion of the audience, which is its true colors.

What should be avoided in performing magic, so (speed) is not a necessary condition for performing magic.

Come on, it's a man's achilles heel. Yes

Some masters are slow to perform magic, but even professional magicians will be fooled.

Some people joked that this was a cover-up. In fact, concealment is only visual, and the wrong guidance is to achieve a person's body, mind and spirit.

Completely controlled by the magician, he not only saw it with his eyes, but also believed it in his heart.

Theoretically, people's attention cannot be the same.

When focusing on two things, the audience will ignore the real key points and turn their attention to another thing.

Wrong guidance should be natural.

For example, today when you are performing, you yell at the audience: [Look! There's UFO ii? ... making people

There is nothing wrong with finding that you are guiding him.

Wrong guidance is not only to guide the audience, but also to guide the invisible, everything.

Actions, words and eyes are taken for granted, and there is nothing unnatural.

The scope of false guidance is very wide.

Today, I will discuss the action of' pulling sleeves' separately.

The act of pulling the sleeve may

There are several meanings, of course, I may really just pull my sleeve, or I may emphasize to the audience that there is nothing in my sleeve, or I may

Just to prove that there is nothing in the hand of the sleeve puller!

Why can pulling the sleeve prove that there is nothing in the hand that pulls the sleeve? Because I misled everyone! There is something hidden in your palm.

This is an "unnatural" action, and I don't want the audience to find it, so I made a "natural" action, because I made a.

This is a natural action, so the audience will not find it. That trick is' pulling the sleeves'.

During the performance, if my hand is unnatural, the audience may find it, but if I pull my sleeve, the audience will not remember it!

As long as I don't emphasize this action.

So I misled everyone! I reversed everyone's doubts about my' unnatural artifact'.

Turn it into a' sleeve pulling action I won't remember'.

So, I turned a magic process into a kind of air, which would not be in the audience's mind.

In the process of leaving an impression, the audience will only remember what I changed in the end!

You can write a thick gobbledygook just by saying false instructions.

However, basically, misleading has one characteristic: it never happens by accident.

Yes, but it's part of the whole performance plan.

Routine, timing and acting are all part of the wrong guidance.

every act and every move

Words, eyes, words, words are all part of the wrong guidance plan.

Will the audience feel amazing if they follow the teaching tapes or the procedures taught in class once and for all? This kind of thing is absolute.

Don't! If you don't guide the audience to watch the program, even the best program will be destroyed.

When you stand on the stage, you are the master. Remember that.

Live this life.

By the way, the trick of magic is not to be known, not to show it to others, and not to show it to others alone.

Look: Look, how fast my hands are! …)

Third, the basic effects of nineteen kinds of magic.

(1) changed to (production)

Appear, become more (people or things)

(2) Physical abnormality.

Including people leaving the shadow, headless beauty, spider with head, taking away thumb and so on.

disappear

To disappear, make invisible

(4) let the audience fail (observer failure)

The magician uses some power to make the audience unable to do something.

(5) Transportation

Disappear from one place and reappear from another.

(6) control (control)

Magicians can control the actions of living or dead objects with internal forces (without hands), such as ringing bells and reaching out automatically.

(7) Deformation

Change the size, shape, nature, color, marking, etc.

(8) Recognition

For example, to identify the audience's poker table (mostly used for cards and colors, which can be recognized by magicians or spectators).

(9) Operation

Hard objects pass through hard objects.

(10) mind reading

The magician can know the audience's thoughts, and the audience can also write down their own thoughts for comparison.

(1 1) recovery

Part or all of the severed limb of an object is repaired.

(12) Thought reading

So that A can know what B thinks.

(13) animation

Let the dead move like life.

(14) forecast

Write down what happened first, such as the title.

(15) antigravity

The action of people or things is anti-gravity.

(16) Additional sensor error

For example, look at things with your fingers, smell colors with your nose, and touch the card with your fingers.

(17) homology, * * * sound (sympathetic neurogenesis)

Two or more people come to the same result.

(18) skills

With the help of real technology or props, make special effects.

(19) invincible

Including eating fire, burning grass and charcoal, walking with a sword, eating glass, eating a blade, cutting your tongue with a pin, etc.

Four, Chinese and English magic terms.

Chinese and English mAGic terms 2003 1 1 14 revised edition ag and egret revised.

ParlorMagic

The size of the living room is between the close-up and the stage (parrot is equivalent to DiningRoom or FamilyRoom in English)

Usually, the magic performed tends to be close-up magic, but there is one feature: all the magic performed by ParlorMagic is standing.

Card products

Card card

Poker poker

spade

Heart, heart

Diamond square

Meihua club

cardcase

Lump sum card

storehouse

Top coating

Bottom card bottom

face up

Face down.

Fan Fan

Sprea is hard to play.

Jianjianka

Onehandcut cuts cards with one hand.

True and false cutting

Shuffle shuffle

India shuffles cards

riffleshuffl .

Dovetail shuffling

Fake shuffle

Double lift and double turn

Increased secretion

Secret loading

Compulsory compulsory card

Checked card

Riffleforce pulls the card and forces it.

Showdown under pressure

C 1assicforce classic compulsory card

Cross force cross stretching

It's really a fake card

Elmsleycount's Yan's tally method will be more appropriate, commonly known as Elmzhilei.

Jordan counting Jordan counting card

Harman counting card

reversed

Top change top card

Pass movement

C 1 classic card transfer

Harman Pasheiman mobile card.

Easypass simple card transfer

Central pass central card transfer

Semi-pass flip-flop

Stealing the flop is special because the original English name of HalfPass can't convey the meaning correctly.

But Chinese should not be called flop, because it is also a hidden action …

It is more appropriate to turn over because it is not a hidden action.

True deal wig brand

Seconddeal sends the second one.

Deal cards.

Central processing services for intermediate cards.

Hide cards in palm's palm

Toppalm hides the top card.

Palm hidden card

GamblersCop gamblers deduct cards

Side seals steal cards from the side.

Teng Kaipar mu Tian hai Cang ka

Backpalm hid the card on the back of his hand.

Deploy control, showdown control

A convincing control pass (convincing control, convincing means convincing, excluding confirmation).

Deploy control, showdown control

Injection movement

Break Blake

Peek at the card

Peek's official name is SpectatorsPeek, which means that when a magician dials a card, the audience stops and watches the action of that card.

Here, the magician's card picking action is different from usual.

A real magician peeking at a card should be called a glimpse, but it was issued later.

Peek card appears as a magician, also known as peek.

Curl and steal cards

Switch steals cards.

Sliding sliding technology

Color change card change

Toshowacard/Displayacard

display card

Turn circle

Twist originally meant to rotate. In magic, it refers to the magic effect of turning the card from the back of the card face up to the back of the card face down.

Fruit, spinning between fingers, the card is spinning on one foot.

Twirl and spin are more suitable to describe the movement of magic card transfer.

Fold fold

Silk card

A card selected by the audience

Double back double back card

Coin article:

Coin copper plate

Half a dollar is two dollars and fifty cents.

British pence a pound.

hold the palm upward

Palm down, palm down

Cast-rolled into copper plate

Chartres Pass.

We should never misunderstand this technology, because it is a great progress for China people.

Ming, note: it's really great. This skill is very important in coin magic!

Click through

Palm palm

Classical hiding method

Hiding method of thumb metacarpal suture

Finger palm finger hiding method

Darwin hid coins.

Zhi Jian zhi Jian Cang bi

Tianhai Tibetan method

Sleeve into a sleeve

1apping knee drop

empty shell

General terms:

Audience audience

Audience audience

Performer performer

Entertainment performer

Volunteers. Volunteers

Magician magician

C 1 own clown

misdirection

routine

Timing time control

put on a play

Click on the timing of magic

Rich imagination

Hallucinations. Hallucinations

Trick, trick

Preparation before the performance

Method method

Stunt technique

steal

Props:

Props. Props

Magicwand

The ball ball

pigeon

Zombie necromancer

scarves

Rubber band

Cigarettes cigarettes

Topit pocket

Wax magic wax

Carpet table mat

Thumb sleeve

Finger:

Thumb thumb

Index finger

middle finger

ring finger

Pinky pinky

Nail nail

Effect clause:

Effect effect

Production appearance

Physics is usually unnatural.

Disappeared

The audience was disappointed by their failure.

Transport shift

Control material resources

Transformation deformation

Identification

Operational crossover

Thought reading

Restore

Animation automation

Predict

antigravity

Extra sensory perception sixth sense

Sympathetic nerve activity makes * * *

Skill stunt

Invisibility can't hurt.