Side-Show Illusions

27 entries in Illusions / Side-Show Illusions
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
To cut off ones head, and to laie it in a platter, &c: which the jugglers call the decollation of John Baptist decapitation illusion
Related to 1584
The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Issue XXXIII)
198
How to seeme to cut off a mans head, it is called the decollation of John Baptist decapitation illusion
Related to 1634
The Art of Legerdemain Discovered
34
Colonel Stodare The Sphinx head in box is alive, mirrors
 		1876
Modern Magic
471
H. Röhl Perpetuum-mobile apparent perpetuum mobile construction
 		July 1895
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 1 No. 7)
104
Carl L. Curiel Der Künstler ohne Kopf person without head
 		Dec. 1897
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 3 No. 6)
90
Carl Willmann Briefkasten answering letters, living head in bottle, dove load from vest into hat, on competing Zauberspiegel, magic with apparatus
 		Apr. 1898
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 4 No. 4)
63
Carl Willmann Die Glücksspinne from America, giant web on stage with spider with the head of a woman, mirror
 		June 1898
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 4 No. 6)
91
Der singende Kopf in der Kiste living head in nest of boxes
 		Jan. 1901
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 7 No. 1)
12
Carl Willmann Der sprechende Kopf "the talking head", longer article
 		Nov. 1903
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 9 No. 11)
171
Carl Willmann Briefkasten answering letters
 		Sep. 1904
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 10 No. 9)
144
Die Blumenfee living head of woman in flower pot
 		Jan. 1904
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 4 No. 1)
11
Der geheimnisvolle Kopf living head in aquarium bowl on table
 		June 1904
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 4 No. 6)
100
The Headless Woman
1938
Greater Magic
989
Alyett Un grand truc des Folies-Bergères à Paris stage illusion, large pool with water where people enter and exit
 		Dec. 1947
La Baguette Magique (Issue 18)
10
U. F. Grant The Floating Head Illusion assistant's head is seen leaving the body and floating up
 		1963
Bodies in Orbit
6
Thomas Tobin The Sphinx mirrors, only head
 		1965
Magician's Magic
103
Lifting a Heavy Metal Tank Full of Water! No. 76
 		1983
101 Psychic Tests
20
Karrell Fox The "Girl in the Fishbowl" & Re-Runs tiny apparently live girl in fishbowl in shelf construction, side-show, many different uses for it
 		1986
For My Next Trick...
125
Paul Osborne Off With Her Head
  • Osborne Illusions
 		Oct. 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 10)
54
Mac King, Mark Levy The Headless Wonder sitting at a table without head
Also published here
  • Tricks With Your Head
 Mar. 2002
MAGIC (Vol. 11 No. 7)
70
Paul Osborne Magic on the Midway
  • Osborne Illusions
 		Feb. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 2)
16
Paul Osborne The Unfortunate Case of Dr. Maymed
  • Osborne Illusions
cut-off head in box talks
 		Oct. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 10)
22
Paul Osborne Egyptia
  • Osborne Illusions
torso with head and without lower body
 		Oct. 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 10)
16
Paul Osborne A Most Unfortunate Incident
  • Osborne Illusion
woman without legs
 		Feb. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 2)
14
Ricky Brandon Disembodied Ghost Head for one's home, Halloween
 		Oct. 2010
MAGIC (Vol. 20 No. 2)
59
Ricky Brandon Scrim Illusion Door door becomes see-through and a monster appears, for one's home, Halloween
 		Oct. 2010
MAGIC (Vol. 20 No. 2)
60
Mike Caveney The Amazing Mechanical Merlin mirror box illusion, lower body part hidden
 		2013
Wonders
44