ILLusion Magic Tricks

Criss Angel illusion secret

2008-06-19T06:48:00.000-07:00

Criss Angel stands on a table in open-air. He jumps on the air and fall. He disappears immediately. How did he do that!. In this scene. It has one confederate to be the close spectator.

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How to levitatate?

2008-06-19T06:29:00.000-07:00

This video is the exposure of levitate technique up from the ground. You can use an angle to be useful to deceive spectators's view. They can see you levitate off ground. This technique will take off ground 5-10 cm depends on your tall. But It has another one which make you take off ground up to 1 - 2 feets. This must use a device. See it now.

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David Blaine Street Magic Revealed

2008-06-10T09:42:00.000-07:00

Great tricks! Too many tricks are on this video.If you were a magic card savvy, you must like this video. I found it on youtube. The content is magic revealed that it is suitable for this exposure trick site. What are tricks that are in this video? It's here!!!
#1 Ace Shake
#2 Riffle Mind Read
#3 Double Deck Prediction
#4 Two card monte
#5 Fruit Loops

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Magic Eye Illusion

2008-05-30T10:12:00.000-07:00

Magician's eyes can see through an envelope. You can read audience's name on a white paper into the envelope which is closed and then magician can give the envelope that has audience's name to correct owner.

Before done this trick, Five-envelope is prepared or up to you. In order to you will know Who is owner of the envelope, you must make a flaw or bevel on lid of the envelope in difference position of all. Remember! A flaw or bevel must not be obvious to audience's eye.

After that calling five people that is audiences you know the name. keep rows of envelope following a flaw in order. Give each of envelope to five audiences. The last right given to right audience and the last left given to left audience in order

Give a white paper and pencil to all audiences. Tell all audience, Write their name on the front paper and put into the envelope and close it. Tell one audience swaps all envelopes before send them to you.

You can tell Who is owner of each envelope by looking a flaw. Make over surprise to the audience, you must pretend staring to each of envelop and write audience's name to on each envelopes. Send back to correct owner. Tell all audience tear received envelope. Look name on envelope and name that magician's writing is the same. Audience's feeling will be amazing.

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Production Coin from Bank note.

2008-05-29T06:30:00.000-07:00

A coin is produced by bank note. The magician show two-side bank note to audiences. Audience see a normal bank. When magician folds the bank, a coin drops to his hands.

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David Copperfield - Slo-Mo Duck

2008-05-29T03:27:00.000-07:00

I like this magic so much. David Copperfield presents his fantastic magic about duck. It's good acting and funny with joke. First time that I see this magic. I am laughing. Hahaha. You may have fun as me.

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Coin Appeared

2008-05-29T02:12:00.000-07:00

A simple trick to make a coin Appear. For kids or beginning who is newbie in magic.

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Rubber Band Up the Nose Illusion

2008-05-29T01:33:00.000-07:00

You will get a good trick. How to show to spectators and make them surprise with a rubber band is drew in your nose. It's illusion. I confirm anyone around you must be surprised.

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How to appear cane - Magic Trick revealed

2008-05-29T01:20:00.000-07:00

How did magician do appearing can in the air? In this video, You will know about how to do it but in the first before begin, You should have a magic cane. Buy it in magic store or if you know how to make it, do it yourself!. ^ ^

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Great Coin Trick

2008-05-26T06:15:00.000-07:00

This is Exposure of coin trick. Magician presents a coin and glass on table to spectators. When magician move a glass that cover with a paper over the coin. After magician say the spell, the coin disappears immediately. Surprise!

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Cyril - Glass Aquarium

2008-05-25T10:36:00.000-07:00

Cyril presents submarine magic in glass aquarium. He lets a pack of cards crashed to a medium fish aquarium and then one card is sticked inside it. He can take the card out by his hand through a glass of aquarium.

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Cyril - Faucet Picture Frame

2008-05-25T08:59:00.000-07:00

Coffee is pour from a faucet that attached to a picture frame. Cyril take a faucet out from frame and no hole appear.

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Golf's magic by Cyril

2008-05-24T01:28:00.000-07:00

Cyril went tour at golf course, He still always make surprise surrounding to spectators, The hole is moved from one to new one place and He unbalance standing up. Unbelievable!!! Watch Cyril play golf with Cyril style incorporating his magic with the sports of golf.

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Rubber Magic [vdo]

2008-05-16T23:23:00.001-07:00

Sorry for taking so long time uploaded. File's size is a big size compared with my internet connection that is slowly. Files below are rubber magic videos. It's separated to many parts(95.37MB each files). This is collection of rubber magic. There're many tricks inside. Have fun!

[Magic Rubber Part 1]
[Magic Rubber Part 2]
[Magic Rubber Part 3]
[Magic Rubber Part 4]
[Magic Rubber Part 5]
[Magic Rubber Part 6]
[Magic Rubber Part 7]
[Magic Rubber Part 8]

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How to make CD appear.

2008-05-14T09:49:00.000-07:00

A coin is a small object. you can make it appear and disappear easily. A CD is a big object. How to make it appear or disappear????? A small or big object isn't the issue. The issue is on a question. How to hide them invisible from spectator's view. This Video show you a trick to hide a big object(CD) to out off spectator's view.

An equipment you should have
-- a CD

Here we go. Let's see a trick. (You can also do this trick. easy and good effect)

Caution : Before showing this trick, you should select a spectator's view as well

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How to make fire ball. Easy to do!

2008-05-14T08:29:00.001-07:00

One day, I searched for new interested trick and video into many sites. In Meta cafe site. I met the trick How to make fire ball. Have you ever seen fire ball? It is a ball that magician used to show floating fire ball trick.(You can do many thing not only a magic) It's very beautiful trick. In that video, describe to prepare equipments ready to use. Teach how to make and use them.

Are you ready to do? Please prepare those equipments below first :p
-- 100% cotton cloth
-- Scissors
-- Lighter Fuel
-- cotton string and needle

How to make :p
-- Cut out the cloth to be a strip of cloth. The size depends on you want just enough
-- roll it into the ball
-- Use a cotton string and needle to sew it. Poke and roll a string around the ball and end up the string.
-- Repeat it again if you want more.
-- Soak the ball by the lighter fuel
-- Do not over fill it bacause it will get on your hand. when you burn it. It will be light up also on your hand
-- Have Fun
-- Look vdo below :p

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Big Magic Tricks [ebook]

2008-05-14T03:57:00.000-07:00

Collection of Magic, Illusion, and Mental Phenomena of J.H. Burlingame. Include text link content,easy to jump to a destination magic trick.

-- Handkerchief Multiplication
-- Now You See it; Now You Don't;
-- Soup Plate and Handkerchief
-- The Flight Through Crystals
-- Pipe Trick
-- Ice Freezing Extraordinary
-- Hypnognotism
-- Noah's Ark
-- Rapid Transit

This is one part of all in the book. You can see more in link below. :)

[Big Magic Trick]

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extremely beginner trick [ebook]

2008-05-14T03:38:00.000-07:00

This book is about magic trick for the beginning magician.
What are in this book? All tricks below are in -

-- seft-typing handkerchief
-- cut and restored string
-- coin through elbow
-- houdini rubber band escape
-- the vanishing knot
-- challege knot tie
-- unbreakable match
-- mysterious coin balance
-- etc. -_-! more!

[extremely beginner trick]

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Hamburger trick revealed[vdo]

2008-05-14T02:19:00.001-07:00

Have you ever seen Cyril's hamburger trick is out from the poster? Today I get this trick revealed in vdo file. It's very interesting. I think you also like it. :) I will share to you all.

[hamberger trick]

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[ebook] 110 Simple Trick

2008-05-14T01:59:00.001-07:00

This is my ebook about simple magic trick. You can do it yourself and easy to do. I will share you all. :) Have fun.

[magic trick]

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[vdo] Hot Magic Trick

2008-05-13T05:18:00.000-07:00

Flying Fire - This trick makes you a miracle man. Take a ball fire floating on your hand.

The Drunken Bottle Trick - The spectator may examine the bottle before the performance or after it. You will be able to show this trick immediately after learning its secret. It does not require any special preparation! You won’t need any threads, or magnets.
The trick can be shown to your friends sitting next to you at the table.

Card Trough Banknote Trick - Any playing card, or business card appears to go through a paper banknote. The money remains undamaged.

Amazing Coin Trick - VDO can descripe you better than me :) Let's see vdo

You can buy in the cheapest price below $10

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Magic Professional Trick Collection [book]

2008-05-13T04:58:00.000-07:00

Very Amazing and Easy to do. Really? Over 50 Professional Trick to learn. It's ebook form and easy to download. WoW!!!

I'm sure you have seen the sort of reactions David Blaine or Criss Angel get when performing magic on the street, well you can get these too and it will not take you years of practice either. As with all magic you must practice but with my clear concise magic tricks exposed instructions it makes it a breeze.

The secret to the following effects are described in great detail in this 41 page magic tricks exposed eBook with full colour pictures to illustrate each and every part. OVER 50 MAGIC TRICKS EXPOSED!

YOU WILL LEARN THE FOLLOWING COOL MAGIC TRICKS EXPOSED IN ONE MASSIVE EBOOK

1. LEARN TO LEVITATE LIKE A PRO MAGICIAN - Want to LEVITATE just like David Blaine or Criss Angel? - NOW YOU CAN!
This magic tricks exposed explains IN DETAIL exactly how you too can appear to levitate just like David Blaine, Criss Angel and other top Magicians. It EXPOSES the many SECRETS used by Professional Magicians that you can utilize too and astound anyone and everyone you perform to!
2. NECK SAWING ILLUSION - The performer takes a reel of thread and breaks an arms length off, they take the ends of the thread in both hands and begin to saw against the surface of their neck - suddenly, the thread has broken the skin and can be seen inside the performers neck.

3. SIGNED COIN IN SODA ILLUSION - You borrow any Can of drink, like a beer or Soda Can, then ask your spectator for a coin, say a twenty pence piece or quarter, you then get a spectator to sign the coin with their initials on both sides. Taking the Can in one hand and the coin in the other you slam the coin into the bottom of the Can. BAM! The coin penetrates the Can! O_o

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4. IMPROMPTU GLASS BALANCE ON A CARD - A Glass can put balance on the thin playing card.
5. SIGNED CARD IN SEALED BAG - The card is removed from desk by inspectator and give them remember it... Want more info. ? >> goto this site!
6. CRUSHED AND RESTORED COKE CAN - A Crushed coke can slowly restores itself by your command.
7. ARM TWIST ILLUSION - I think that this illusion easy to do. You can also do it! Twist your arm while other people can't do.
8. AMAZING CARD TRICKS EBOOK - Floating Card Trick, Card Forces, T-Shirt Trick, Classic Card Trick All you can learn in a single book
9. PEN THROUGH ARM MAGIC TRICK - Pen is a ordinary stationery and easy to find. you can use it to show amazing act to many spectators. Let spectators examine your arm and then do magic surprise!!
10. CUT & RESTORED BANK NOTES ILLUSION a Bank note is valueable for everyone. You cut the bank note make other surprises. And double surprise by restoring it to original condition.
11. SELF FOLDING NOTE MAGIC TRICK - a bank note is on your hand. The note unfolded and flat in the Magician's palm
12. MAGIC COIN BALANCE TRICK - Ask to borrow any coin from a spectator - then perform this little miracle: First you take the coin and balance it upright on the fingers of your open palm - impressive enough, but suddenly with a wave of your hand you get it to slowly and visibly drift back into your palm - AMAZING! Immediately hand out the coin for examination once more - there is nothing to find. You can repeat the trick straight away and even get a spectator to try to copy you at the same time - they will find it impossible!
13. MAGIC SPINNING COINS ILLUSION
14. COIN OR BOTTLE TOP IN BOTTLE

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Attention: An eBook is an ELECTRONIC book, not a real book you hold.
You just click on the link given after payment and download your PDF file and read your ebook, simple.

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Hypnosis Spell the people under your controls

2008-05-13T03:52:00.000-07:00

Lets You Put People Under your control and get them to do anything you want?

If you've ever wanted people to immediately obey your commands without them even realizing what you're doing
This method is so powerful, so unique and so under-the-radar that some downright criminal people are using it to rob banks and supermarkets without the cashiers realizing they are handing over the money to them. They don't even have any memory of doing it!

This One Of A Kind Course Includes Everything You Need To Know To Master ... Absolutely Master ... The Art of Conversational Hypnosis in The Shortest Time Possible

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Session 4 "The Authority Strategy - Tactics To Ensure Success" 1 Hour 14 Mins 01 Secs
Session 5 "Emotional Triggers : Controlling Inner Pictures And Feelings" 1 Hour 11 Mins 27 Secs
Session 6 "Advanced Hypnotic Language" 1 Hour 7 Mins 17 Secs
Session 7 "How To Destroy Resistance With Stories" Part One 1 Hour 11 Mins 41 Secs
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Session 10 "Advanced Frame Control - How To Irresistibly Lead Any Interaction" 1 Hour 2 Mins 37 Secs
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David Copperfield History

2008-05-12T01:27:00.000-07:00

The story deals with the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David is born in the England in about 1820. David's father had died six months before he was born, and seven years later, his mother marries Mr Edward Murdstone. David dislikes his stepfather and has similar feelings for Mr Murdstone's sister Jane, who moves into the house soon afterwards. Mr Murdstone thrashes David for falling behind with his studies. During the thrashing, David bites him and is sent away to a boarding school, Salem House, with a ruthless headmaster, Mr. Creakle. Here he befriends James Steerforth and Tommy Traddles who leaves and then reappear later on.

David returns home for the holidays to find out that his mother has had a baby boy. Soon after David goes back to Salem House, his mother and her baby die and David has to return home immediately. Mr. Murdstone sends him to work in a factory in London of which he is a joint owner. The grim reality of hand-to-mouth factory existence echoes Dickens' own travails in a blacking factory. His landlord, Wilkins Micawber, is sent to a debtor's prison (the King's Bench Prison) after going bankrupt, and is there for several months before being released and moving to Plymouth. David now has nobody left to care for him in London, and decides to run away.

He walks all the way from London to Dover, to find his only known relative - his eccentric Aunt Betsy Trotwood - who agrees to bring him up, despite Mr Murdstone visiting in a bid to regain custody of David. David's aunt renames him Trotwood Copperfield, soon shortened to "Trot", and for the rest of the novel he is called by either name, depending on whether he is communicating with someone he has known for a long time, or someone he has only got to know recently.

The story follows David as he grows to adulthood, and is enlivened by the many well-known characters who enter, leave and re-enter his life. These include his faithful housekeeper Peggotty, her family, and their orphaned niece Little Em'ly who lives with them and charms the young David; his romantic but self-serving schoolfriend, Steerforth, who seduces and dishonours Little Em'ly, triggering the novel's greatest tragedy; and his landlord's daughter and ideal "angel in the house," Agnes Wickfield, who becomes his confidante. The two most familiar characters are David's sometime mentor, the constantly debt-ridden Mr. Wilkins Micawber, and the devious and fraudulent clerk, Uriah Heep, whose misdeeds are eventually discovered with Micawber's assistance. Micawber is painted as a sympathetic character, even as the author deplores his financial ineptitude; and Micawber, like Dickens's own father, is briefly imprisoned for insolvency.

In typical Dickens fashion, the major characters get some measure of what they deserve, and few narrative threads are left hanging. Dan Peggotty safely transports Little Em'ly to a new life in Australia; accompanying these two central characters are Mrs. Gummidge, and the Micawbers. Everybody involved finally finds security and happiness in their new lives in Australia. David first marries the beautiful but naïve Dora Spenlow, but she dies after failing to recover from a miscarriage early in their marriage. David then does some soul-searching and eventually marries and finds true happiness with Agnes, who had secretly always loved him. They have several children, including a daughter named in honour of Betsy Trotwood.

This is apart of David story you can see more information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(novel)

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Tarot is one kind of magic, Really?

2008-05-12T00:53:00.000-07:00

Umm, I think that Tarot is other type of magic in current. Tarot has amazing itself. It can predict the future or current of people who selected. Follow me, see the history of it. thank you for this content from http://www.tarothermit.com/magician.htm Story is rather long detail. It may you boring. Please be patient. Goodluck. :)

The Magician in historic tarot decks conveys a somewhat different archetype than in the modern decks. There are two kinds of magician. One is the magus, master of metaphysical secrets and ancient knowledge, calling on the powers of the cosmos to bend reality in accordance with his will. The other is the stage magician, the conjurer, the entertainer, the charlatan. Although the two visions of the magician can mix and interact in fascinating ways, it is accurate to say that in modern decks we usually see the magus; in the historic decks we usually see the stage magician.

This character is the fast-talking, attention-grabbing, flamboyant stuffed shirt who cons passers-by out of their money using sleight of hand and clever prattle. He is the ancestor of the man in the black tophat and waxed mustache, of P. T. Barnum, and of every two-bit hustler who hopes to make the big score.

The Waite-Smith and other occult decks introduced some changes that helped bring out the magus archetype. What is fascinating, though, is that only relatively minor changes were needed to effect the transformation.

The classic Marseilles-type Magician (see the Tarot de Besancon image here) holds up a wand in one hand; it's a standard stage prop. His other hand is busy at the table, perhaps ready to rearrange the cups and balls while our eyes are on the wand. In the Waite-Smith deck, though, the second hand points to the Earth, making the magician a channel for drawing down energies from the higher planes.

In the modern decks, the Magician's table almost invariably shows the four suit symbols: a sword, a wand, a cup, and a pentacle. At first glance, the Magician's table in the historic decks just seems cluttered with juggler's props and tools, which do not resemble the suit symbols at all in the way they are rendered. And yet, with an uncanny eeriness that gives one pause for thought, they are all there in less conspicuous form: the staff or baton is present in miniaturized form as the magician's wand; the swords are likewise present in the form of a knife or two (which the magician would use for cutting rope or twine); the cups are present, not as ornate goblets but as small tumblers for use in the shell game; and there are often coins on the table, or if not, at least small balls, rendered as simple circles in the woodcut designs.

It is details like these that make the historic tarots so delightfully intriguing. Perhaps the props on his table are just the routine apparatus of his trade. But can we rule out that the woodblock carver, who after all would have carved out each suit symbol 59 times (!) in producing the minor arcana for the deck, would have had them well ingrained in his mind (and hands!) to the extent that they resurface here? Or perhaps some long-forgotten designer put them there on purpose for reasons no longer known, and they were copied routinely for centuries.

The lemniscate over the Magician's head in modern decks is a consequence of French occultist Elpiphas Levi's musings on the shape of the Magician's hat in the old decks. Since many of the court cards also wear hats of this design, it is unlikely that early designers saw any special significance in the headware.

The Magician in the historic decks is connected with another archetype as well; that of the craftsman or artisan, as we see in the Tarocchi del Mantegna prints. Remarkbaly once again, just a small change of design is needed to transform the "man behind a table cluttered with tools" from juggler con-man to industrious jeweller or cobbler. Do these two seemingly different characters have anything at all in common, aside from a superficial similarity in props in pose? I think so. The tarot dates from times when the ancient feudal system had been intruded on and transformed by an ever more important middle class of artisans, merchants, and others "out for themselves" in the world. Such people were not well respected. The great artists of the Renaissance, whose paintings and sculptures are now seen as priceless masterpieces of what is highest in the human spirit, were in their own time lumped together with the cobblers, housepainters, tailors, and others who worked with their hands to provide purely utilitarian goods and services. So both the juggler/magician and the artisan/craftsman were "nobodies" operating outside the formal hierarchical world of the nobility, yet neither were they serfs or slaves; indeed they might be wealthy enough (or clever enough) to carry influence out of proportion to their social status.

The original Italian name for the Magician, Bagatella (or Bagatto or Bagatino) is a not a commonplace word in Italian. It is apparently derived from the word for stick or wand, so that a Bagatella is someone who uses a wand, hence a magician. The French name for the card, Bateleur, is thus a close translation. The English "Magician" is a clumsy but serviceable analog. ("Juggler" or "Mountebank" are also fair renderings.) Probably because of long association with the tarot card, the Italian word has also come to mean a trifle or a thing of little worth. It is also a word for "cobbler" in the dialect of Milan. This is interesting because Milanese tarots for the last two centuries have depicted the Magician as a cobbler, complete with a half-made shoe on his work table (see the Soprafino Tarot). Which came first, the picture or the word? We can't say, but it is intriguing to speculate that the Milanese design may be a throwback to the "artisan" pictured in the Tarocchi del Mantegna. The Milanese designs include another enertaining feature: instead of a wand, the Bagatto holds up one of the cups from his table, presumably well filled with wine.

The Magician card, like the Fool, has a very special role in the game of tarot which deserves comment. In the game, the court cards are all worth points, but the trumps are generally not. The only exceptions are the World, the Magician, and the Fool, which are each worth as much as kings, making them among the most valuable cards in the game. Now if you are dealt the Fool or World, those points are guaranteed to you, because neither of those cards can be captured during play. The Magician, on the other hand, is extremely vulnerable to being captured, because it is outranked by all the other trumps. So to win a trick with the Magician, the other players must all play suit cards, not trumps. This is not an easy thing to arrange. It can happen only if (a) you are out of a particular suit that everyone else still has, or (b) everyone else is completely out of trumps. If neither of those conditions occur, you will likely lose the Magician (and all its points) to some other player. So arranging an opportunity to play the Magician card without losing it is a major component of tarot strategy.

One can generally not count on the lucky opportunity of running out of a suit that others still have, although it is easy enough to take advantage of the opportunity if you are the last one to play in a given trick. More challenging and fun is saving the Magician until everyone else has run out of trumps. (For this to work, you must be dealt many of the trumps to begin with--if not, you are likely to run out early yourself.) You hold the Magician card until the end of the game, when you hope all the other players will be defenseless against it. Furthermore, the way the game works, players are often caught holding court cards through the middle of the game, because it is too risky to play them when they might be captured by a trump. So at the end of the game, players are finally forced to play their valuable court cards. There is no greater glee in the game than taking a handful of royalty by playing the Magician in the last trick. This feature is so prominent that in most versions of the game, a player who pulls this maneuver off gets a hefty point bonus!

Even in the French-suited "tarrock" decks, in which the traditional trump designs have all been replaced by animals or scenes of country life, the Magician card still often depicts a flashy magician-like character, so strong is the association between the card's role in the game and the "personality" of the magician.

I go into this detail of the game because (believe it or not) I think it adds a great deal to our understanding of the character of the card. The Magician is a coward, a swindler, and a cheat. He lives by his wits. All the other cards of the major arcana depict high earthly rulers (Pope and Emperor, for example) or archetypal powers (like Love, Death, and Time), which are unambiguously superior to the kings, queens, and knights of the court. Only the Magician, as an ignoble commoner, cannot "logically" triumph over royalty. By his powers of illusion, dexterity, and fast talk, though, he can capture them! As if his portrayal on the card were not enough to make the point clear, the rules of the game are contrived so that the Magician lurks secretively throughout the entire hand, waiting for the great powers of the cosmos to play themselves out; he appears by surprise at the end to capture a veritable hoard of royalty who were too cautious or inept to enter the fray of the early part of the game. I think the game of tarot is full of wry social and metaphysical ironies of this type. The Magician is the ultimate manipulator. Although without nobility or rank, he rakes in his victory by unabashedly exploiting the rules of the game of life.

Having taken this historical perspective on the Magician card, one might find it easy to write off the "magus" persona as an unworthy occultist intrusion on the earlier tradition. But that would be to miss some very interesting avenues of thought. For although magus and charlatan are very different characters, their paths have been profoundly intertwined throughout human history. From ancient Greece down to the present day, charlatans have posed as magi--and magi have posed as charlatans! Writers of the late Renaissance bemoan the problems of distinguishing true alchemists from frauds. Even today, tarot enthusiasts find themselves needing to emphasize the distinction between legitimate card reading and the exploitative scams that are exposed by the TV journalists. But what makes one reading legitimate and another bogus? Is it the method? The intention? The grace of the gods?

My thoughts are drawn back to The Wizard of Oz (movie version). Professor Marvel is a charlatan, but one with a heart of gold. In Dorothy's dream, he becomes the Great and Powerful Oz, who alone can make her wishes come true. In the end, she finds that power in herself, and the professor is no longer either charlatan or magus, but just a well-meaning old man who knows how to get a lot of mileage out of a few clever words and old props. In the end, he uses his theatrical gifts to help Dorothy's friends discover what they've carried within themselves all the time. And isn't that a form of magic that reunites charlatan and magus?

The Magician is the "front man" for the tarot deck. In the Tarocco Siciliano, we see him dealing a pack of cards! Disreputable, commonplace but mysterious, ambitious but charming, a hustler, inventor, and showman. Is he a Power or a Poser? Perhaps there is power in the pose . . .

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Cyril Takayama's History

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Cyril Takayama's History

Cyril is one of famous magicians. He is the new star and hottest in japan. In June 2004, He presented his magic for full 2 hours that was the third round in 2 years ago through TV Tokyo and He got a responding from spectators as well. He made interest from spectators by jump down from Las Vegas Hotel and hold sword in his hand. Sword was stabbed into Card that floating on water. WoW It's Amazing thing and very crazy. Cyril's magic is his style not same as others.

Cyril is working in Japan and America. In America, He is member of Magic X Live that is young's magician and hottest in one of ten famous magicians. He changes a basic magic such as rabbit out from hat to be a better magic and interesting in his style. Magic X Live's members create TV program named T.H.E.M (Totally Hidden Extreme Magic) that broadcast in America, Australia and England. His TV program presents extremely amazing magic.

He was born in Hollywood, California. His Father's name is Raphael Vegas b. His mother's name is Leaontine Gisclair b. He starts learning magic since six years old. Learning magic idea occurs when his parent lead him to the show of Las Vegas and at the moment. He decides to training magic. When he was a teen, He was participating in magical program of famous teenager in California. He has being increased his magical skill to now a day. And that makes him to a professional.

In 1994, F.I.S.M. (Federation International Society du Magique) gives the best magician's award in Crand Illusion that can be compared to Olympic of magician so Cyril has a fame in the world.

In 1997, he found boon companion named Jane. They start create a new show until Jane accepts Magic makes me a new vision in dancing and show on stage.

In 2001, all things of Cyril's making is successful. Cyril and Jane got a Golden Lion Award in Siegfried and Roy's World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas.

Cyril becomes to know of many people in now a day and many places want him to show. He will be careful in plan for suitable different place and spectator's view such as Close-up, Parlor Magic and Grand Illusion. He has many the best magics and very amazing to show spectators.

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