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Revolving Pins
Take a piece of elastic which is not covered with silk or wool, and through the middle of this stick a pin, which you have bent as shown in the illustration.
Now hold the elastic between the thumb and first finger of each hand and twirl it round, stretching it a little at the same time. The rapid movement thus caused will make the revolving pin look like a glass object, and if you have a strong light falling on the pin and a dark background behind it, the resemblance becomes very much stronger.
After a little practice you will be able to represent many things in this way—cheese dishes, vases, champagne glasses, etc.; and if the bent pin should fall into a horizontal position while revolving, on account of its shape, you can tie one end to the elastic with a piece of white thread, which will not in any way interfere with the working.This trick looks well in a darkened room, when the pin is illuminated by a ray of sunlight coming through a hole in the window shutter. Magician performed indoors on a stage, in front on an audience for years. However, in recently years the trend has been to perform outdoors on street corners, in parks or anywhere the magician cam find a crowd. Oddly enough that is actually what magicians used to do in the past. They performed outdoors at street fairs and marketplaces.
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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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