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Balancing Spoon
Place a half-opened penknife on the edge of the table and hang a large cooking-spoon by its hook on to the knife, just where the blade and handle join. Place the spoon so that its inner (concave) side is facing the table and, after swinging for a little while, the knife and spoon will keep still in perfect balance. Even if you fill the spoon with sand it will not fall, so long as the heaviest point is under the edge of the table.
The cooking-spoon is hung on to the half-opened penknife where the blade and the handle join, and you can now place the end of the knife-handle on the tip of your finger, on the edge of the table, or on the rim of a glass which is standing near the edge of the table, and your knife and spoon will balance perfectly, without falling over. The word magic comes from the Latin word magi. Magi were wise men, scholars and as such knew facts about the natural world that may have made them appear to supernatural to the everyday person. There is still an aspect of wonder and the supernatural about magicians that we enjoy today.
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Magic Tricks
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Balancing Spoon
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Bridge of Knives
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Chinese Shadows
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Coin Trick
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Dancing Egg
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Dancing Pea
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Find an Object While Blindfolded
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Force of a Water Drop
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Hand Shadows
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Living Shadows
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Magic Thread
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Man With His Head the Wrong Way
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Mysterious Ball
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Obstinate Cork
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Revolving Pins
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Shadows
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Swimming Needles
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The Sentinel Egg
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The Wonderful Pendulum
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Think of a Number
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To Balance a Coffee Cup
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To Guess Two Ends of a Line of Dominoes
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To Light a Snowball with a Match
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Vanishing Dime
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