The Incredible Headless Magician
by Miles Sunkest on Mar.04, 2010, under Uncategorized
If you like the idea of amazing complete strangers with mind boggling magic, then you\’ve come to the right place. Here you\’ll learn a classic street magic trick that always gets a laugh, and a lot of great attention from groups of strangers. It requires a little bit of set up, and a few minutes of practice in front of a mirror, but in no time you\’ll be doing this to the delight of as many people as you care to approach on the street.
Here\’s how it will look to your audience. You approach somebody, explain that you are practicing some street magic, and you\’d like their attention for a few seconds. Most everybody will readily agree to seeing some street magic, so you\’ll have no problems getting them to say yes. You start to launch into a trick, maybe pulling out a deck of cards, but then you begin to sneeze. You pretend your neck is hurting while you sneeze a few more times. Then your head suddenly drops down to the center of your chest. You say something like \”Oh, my,\” and then pull your head back to your shoulders. You politely excuse yourself, and walk away. Needless to say, your audience will be stunned beyond belief.
Here\’s the trick. You\’ll need to get two shirts of identical fabric and color to set this up. One shirt under, and one shirt over. On the shirt that is over, you\’ll need to cut a \”V\” shape about halfway down to the chest. You\’ll also need to wear a dark jacket over both shirts. After that, find a sturdy coat hanger, and put it between your shirts, and under your jacket.
As you start sneezing, and complaining about your painful neck, reach back like you are rubbing your neck. When you sneeze really hard, grab the coat hanger, and pull up, and at the same time lower your head. This will give the impression that your head has somehow fallen off your shoulders, and is now in the center of your chest. Grab your forehead with the hand that isn\’t holding the coat hanger, and slowly push your head back up to your shoulders.
The key to this trick is to do this quickly, both lifting the jacket and the cut shirt up, as well as returning everything back to normal. Especially if you set this up by saying you are going to do some kind of mind reading trick, nobody will be paying any attention to your shirt and jacket. Because this happens so fast, they will actually remember it as though your head really fell down to your chest.
People won\’t be paying much attention to your shirt, so you can easily pull this off. Many studies on social sciences bare this out. All you need to do to perform this trick effectively is to set it up as some kind of mind reading trick, do a good job of acting that your neck is hurt, and quickly apologize, and excuse yourself once you\’ve \”returned\” your head. They will be taken completely off guard, and you\’ll generate a ton of laughter and amazement with this trick. Have fun.
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