The (Not So Secret) Secrets Behind Magic Tricks

The Key is Set Design

The metal spike that the magicians are “impaling” themselves with is usually just a coverup for a platform that the magician sets up to lay on while giving the illusion that they are suspended from the spike that’s impaling them.

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