We all want to believe in miracles, which is why people love magicians, illusionists and diviners so much. It has long been no secret that all these miracles are nothing but an illusion of deception. But how sometimes one wants to be deceived and believe in the impossible. There are people who, over the millennia, have been professionally developing and improving various tricks from light to very heavy and dangerous. Let us find out who they are these daredevils and adventurers, playing on the feelings of people and causing genuine interest. So, let's start in order.
1
Nicolas-Philippe Ledru (Camus)
It is this French scientist physicist and, concurrently, an illusionist-manipulator who lived in the 18th century who is considered the first magician who was not afraid to show his ability to defiantly deceive people.
Nicolas entertained the nobility and even the royal family, showing his experiences and tricks. And in Paris, he even had his own room for demonstrations, in which Ledru conducted experiments in physics, which in our time would not have surprised anyone, and then were a real discovery and shock. The brave Camus traveled all over Europe with performances and became very popular, because he was considered a miracle man.
2
Giuseppe Pinetti
A talented Italian was born back in 1750 and had the gift of divination and foresight. So, with his eyes closed, he could guess any object that the audience had been imagining for him. Thanks to this skill he became famous.
As you know, George III was very fond of this kind of entertainment and invited a magician to the palace. His “trick” was a trick with a swallow, when Giuseppe, who knew well and knew anatomy imperceptibly for others, pressed the bird on the carotid artery for a moment, depriving it of consciousness, and passing it off as a dead one successfully resurrected it by blowing it on it.
In fact, he was an excellent scientist and in his tricks used science, medicine, chemistry, physics and mathematics, which, unknowingly, were taken for miracles.
3
Harry August Jansen (Dante)
The Danish illusionist and stuntman in the lexicon from whom we first heard the magic phrases “Abracadabra” and “Sim-Sala-Bim” was a real greatest magician in the 1900s, in that “Golden Age of Magic”.
He was known to the whole world under the pseudonym "Dante Magician" and toured with his program, which included various tricks from maps to illusions. And as many as 25 assistants helped him in this, the sight was very interesting and pompous.
4
Harry Blackstone
This American stuntman is considered one of the pioneers in the world of fairytale illusions, whose tricks and tricks are performed today. Harry Blackstone is the author of the, as it seems to us, a dangerous trick called "sawing".
The hallmark of his performances around the world was a trick with an electric bulb that flew around the stage and lit itself without any wires. Harry also surprised the audience with a large number of flowers that appeared without any warning in the hall, which caused the viewer genuine interest and a pleasant shock.
5
Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss)
Little Harry was born on a warm March morning in a very friendly and pious Jewish family. The boy’s magician’s abilities began to manifest in early childhood, when sweets began to disappear inexplicably from the locked cabinet. A circus often came to their small provincial town. Performances of magicians became for the boy a real magic. For fun, Harry began to come up with tricks and show them to friends, everyone was delighted. When Harry was 13 years old, his family moved to New York. This is where his career as an illusionist began. Once, in a bookstore, he fell into the hands of a book by a famous illusionist called "Robert Goodin's Memoirs." He did not part with her anymore and even took the pseudonym of Houdini.
One of the most popular tricks invented by Harry Houdini was the Metamorphosis trick. Very complex in structure, each time he admired and surprised the viewer. They put a sack on a bound magician and put them in a wooden box, but as soon as the assistant clapped her hands, a charming girl appeared in the box instead of Houdini, and Houdini stood nearby. The focus on "the disappearance of the elephant" was also very fond of the audience. No wonder Harry Houdini was called the king of illusion.
6
Wolf Messing
In Soviet times, this ingenious man was called a pop artist, since he traveled all over the alliance with performances and psychological experiments “on reading thoughts”. We put him on the list of magicians, although he was engaged in hypnosis and telekinesis, but aren't these tricks?
He predicted the future for which he received the nickname "Soviet Nostradamus." Rumor has it that the Secretary General of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, was afraid, and Stalin advised how to wage a war. Most interesting is that all of Messing's prophecies came true. So do not believe in extrasensory perception.
7
David Copperfield (David Seth Kotkin)
David Copperfield is one of the most recognizable illusionists of our time. Love for everything mysterious and mysterious instilled in David his grandfather. It was he who introduced the grandson to card tricks, but David did not limit himself to cards, but began to try himself in other tricks. At age 12, he became a member of the American community of magicians. For several years, David hosted the David Copperfield Magic television program. But the little tricks no longer interested the illusionist. He began to think about truly large projects. And he did succeed.
World fame came to the magician after his incredible tricks where David had to go through the Chinese wall or cross Niagara Falls. And the disappearance of the Statue of Liberty forever won the hearts of viewers.
8
Alessandro Cagliostro
Among the magicians and illusionists often come across very talented adventurers. One of such famous scammers was Alessandro Cagliostro. Because of his tricks, he was expelled from school, and later from the monastery, where his mother sent him for re-education. But, during his short stay in the monastery, Giuseppe (the real name of the adventurer) fell in love with chemistry and learned a lot of chemical research. This was very useful to him in subsequent years.
Returning to his homeland, Giuseppe Balsamo turned into Count Alessandro Cagliostro. He fooled people by selling them "empty" drug drugs that were supposed to cure any disease, but could only empty the wallet. After the exposure, he had to flee the city. Throughout his life, the adventurer has traveled to many corners of the planet and even came to St. Petersburg, but did not take root at court and went to Italy, where he was exposed and imprisoned, where he died four years later.
9
Hmayak Hakobyan
Who does not remember this charismatic Russian and Soviet circus, and the illusionist Hmayak Hakobyan. The merry magician was born into a circus family, so his fate was predetermined from childhood. Hmayak Hakobyan is a very skilled and experienced illusionist, but most of all he loves and he succeeds in them - tricks with cards. Still a part-time magician and actor, he played mainly the roles of magicians and psychics.
10
David blaine
This magician of our time, so to speak, the representative of the young generation of illusionists is often called crazy, because he has risked more than once and continues to risk his life.
His tricks are very exciting, but at the same time very dangerous. Judge for yourself - one of his favorite experiments on his body is burial alive in a plastic container, freezing in ice, and also imprisonment without food in a box above the Thames surface for more than a month.
11
Chris Angel
A very extraordinary and confident American magician, illusionist and hypnotist Chris Angel is very popular in his country. He is called the most successful magician after Houdini himself, because Chris also does something that does not fit in his head.
In his arsenal of telepathy and levitation, as well as hypnosis and a lot of strange and dangerous tricks. All magicians reliably keep their secrets, and Chris published a book where he revealed all the secrets and tricks, thanks to which he all turns out so believably.
12
Igor Emilievich Renard-Kio
The representative of the circus dynasty Igor Kio is the progenitor of Soviet and now Russian circus art. The thing is that the ingenious magician came up with a lot of tricks that were included in the collection of the repertoire of every self-respecting illusionist.
The legendary circus performer had his own show called “Without Illusions” in which he invited pop stars, which made the circus and magicians very popular and loved.
13
The Safronov Brothers
Not one, not two, but three Safronov brothers became famous throughout the country due to their abilities. Russian illusionists traveled the whole globe with their own program of tricks and illusions.
And also Vladimir, Andrey and Ilya lead the Russian version of the show “Battle of psychics”, where they are real skeptics and test magicians with exceptional meticulousness, so that pseudo-psychics have no chance.
14
Dai Vernon
One of the professional illusionists of his time, in the world of great illusion, he is known by the nickname "professor", he is also an opponent, and you can even say a competitor to the legendary meter among Houdini's magicians. They were not enemies, but they cannot be called friends. The thing is that one of them was stronger and more agile, Dai Vernon is still younger, and Houdini was unable to unravel his focus called “The Ambitious Card” until the end of his days.
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