A Brief History Of Floating Magic_43981

Who hasn't dreamed of being light as a feather? Of being able to float up into the air and relaxing there? Of being able to do floating magic? Well, typically we want to be able to fly rather than passively float, but you know what I mean. We all want to do this. But when magicians first started working on attempting a levitation illusion, they had to start small, with a suspension. In a suspension, the subject must actually be physically placed into position - resting one elbow on a microphone or a broom,knock off uggs, for example. With levitation, the magician stands to one side and of his/her own accord, the subject rises into position, and lowers back down to the ground at the completion of the illusion. There are no microphones or brooms to be seen. In other words,Replica Uggs, they're floating magically in air, not suspended by a single point. The magician credited with developing the Levitation Illusion (what we now refer to as floating magic) is John Nevil Maskelyne,fake uggs boots, Maskelyne started out life apprenticed to a watchmaker in the early 1850s, in England. He learned many skills in the watchmaking/mechanical trade that would be inaluable to him when he later took up the career of a magician. He started out as an "amateur conjuror," as many kids do, but for him it went deeper. A couple of magicians - the Davenport brothers - came to London and claimed that spirits from "the other side" helped them move objects about the stage and so on. Maskelyne set out to debunk these claims, and once having done so...he also set himself up as a magician himself- duplicating the Davenport brother's entire act (although presumably not their patter)! After Maskelyne perfected the levitation illusion, other magicians were quick to seize upon the trick and add refinements of their own. The illusion crossed the seas to the United States, where Harry Kellar called his version "Princess Karnak." It was then taken up by Howard Thurston and then the Blackstone dynasty of magicians...and who today has not seen David Copperfield's variations?