Nail

36 entries in Nail

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Carl Willmann	Der unverwundbare Künstler	nail placed upright on table, hand smashed onto it, dummy rubber nail		Oct. 1903	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 9 No. 10)	158	Nail Comedy Magic / Comedy Props
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli	Der unverletzbare Zauberer	nail through finger		1927	Leichte Zauberei	67	Propless / Fakir Stuff Nail
Frank Lane, U. F. Grant	The Lindbergh Kidnap Ladder	board with holes and nails, different spectators claim having seen a different number of holes and the nails in different positions		1935	They're Off	10	Mental Magic / Effects / Special Powers Nail Wood
	Fakir werden ist nicht schwer	fakir tricks, needle through cheek and throat, nail in nose "Human Blockhead"		1946	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 8 No. 2)	9	Propless / Body Mutilation Propless / Fakir Stuff Needle / Penetration Nail
Ali Bongo	The Houdini Pin	pin vanishes from corked tube and appears in small box	Related to Second Thoughts (Ali Bongo, 1966)	1966	The Bongo Book	52	Nail Random Object / Miscellaneous Apparatus / Miscellaneous
Ernesto "Ernest" Pracchia	Sólido a través de Sólido	self made block penetration / Bomba Atomica, Nail through tube		1967	Toda la Magia Moderna en un Pañuelo	75	Nail Apparatus / Miscellaneous
Jack Chanin	Gee Whiz - It's Spiked	cigarette from hand to hand, then changes into railroad spike		1973	Close-up Cavalcade	41	Cigarette/Cigar / Transformation Cigarette/Cigar / Vanish Nail
B.C. Milnov	The Mind Benders	nail / spike bending		1975	Magick (Issue 127)	631	Nail Mental Magic / Effects / Metal Bending
Stephen Minch	Mental Metals	nail bending		1975	Mind & Matter	13	Nail Mental Magic / Effects / Metal Bending
Uriah Fuller	2. Bending nails, spikes, rings and what-have-you			1975	Confessions of a Psychic	23	Nail Ring / Finger Rings / Miscellaneous Mental Magic / Effects / Metal Bending
Tony "Doc" Shiels	Bend, Baby, Bend!	on Uri Geller and methods to bend, spoons, nails and keys		1976	The Shiels Effect	10	Spoon & Fork Key / Key Bending Nail Mental Magic / Effects / Metal Bending
Al Mann	The Spikes of Asmodeus	historical comments on bending nails, nail bending act with several nails and spectator participation	Related to Notes (Al Mann, 1977)	1977	Psycho-Mentisis	8	Nail Mental Magic / Effects / Metal Bending
John F. Mendoza	The Coin Routine (No. 1)	copper and silver coin transpose, both change to copper, then silver, then into four dollars, coins across with those, two more dollars appear and a copper coin, coins through table, drill production from purse		1978	The Book of John	54	Coin / Gaffed / Copper/Silver Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Miscellaneous Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Table / All at once Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Hand to Hand / Normal Coin / Effect Themes / Transposition / Copper/Silver / Solo Nail
Ross Bertram	Eerie Feller	metal bending with nail		1983	Bertram on Sleight of Hand	202	Nail Mental Magic / Effects / Metal Bending
	The Nail Act: Driving a Nail into Wooden Plank with Your Bare Hand	No. 64		1983	101 Psychic Tests	17	Propless / Fakir Stuff Nail
	Driving a Nail through the Wall	No. 65		1983	101 Psychic Tests	17	Propless / Fakir Stuff Nail
	Bending a Large Thick Nail with Your Bare Hands!	No. 66		1983	101 Psychic Tests	17	Propless / Fakir Stuff Nail Mental Magic / Effects / Metal Bending
	Bending a Nail with Your Teeth!	No. 67		1983	101 Psychic Tests	17	Propless / Fakir Stuff Nail Mental Magic / Effects / Metal Bending
	Extracting Nails from a Wooden Board with the Fingertips!	No. 68		1983	101 Psychic Tests	17	Propless / Fakir Stuff Nail
	The Anvil Test	No. 71, performer lies on bed of nails with anvil on chest, assistant beats on anvil with a hammer		1983	101 Psychic Tests	18	Propless / Fakir Stuff Nail
	Breaking a Large Stone on the Chest of the Strongman with a Sledge Hammer as He Lays on a Bed of Nails	No. 72		1983	101 Psychic Tests	19	Propless / Fakir Stuff Nail
Ali Bongo	Houdini Coin	coin in tube penetrates two nails		1983	1983	8	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Through Something else Nail
Michael Carrion	Michael Carrions Nervous Nails	visual joke about chewing nails, pun		1985	Finger Secrets	16	Nail
Rick Johnsson	Nailed	twisted nail puzzle, two bent nails linked, one-handed linking, apparently linked and unlinked when shaken in jar	Also published here "Nailed" (Rick Johnsson, MUM, Feb. 1981)	1988	The Chronicles (Issue 35)	1408	Nail Puzzle / Miscellaneous
Simon Lovell	Tongued	Magician puts nail through his tongue, then restores tongue	Related to Pen Through Tongue (Simon Lovell, 1997)	1989	Close Up Magic To Tapdance To	103	Propless / Body Mutilation Nail
Karl Fulves	Fixed Bets	eleven bar bets involving numbers, nail		1991	Swindle Sheet (Issue 5)	54	Nail Articles / Columns Games / Bar Bets & Puzzles Numbers / Puzzles & Bets
Steve Dusheck	Nail Jail	card with hole penetrates a nail		1992	Dusheck's Card Magic	84	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Magnetic/Shimmed Card Nail
Steve Dusheck	Spike Bending			1993	Dusheck's Mental Magic	57	Nail Mental Magic / Effects / Metal Bending
Karl Fulves	Twisted Logic	effect with twisted nail puzzle, tossed from hand to hand, then one of the two nails travels to other hand		1994	Rigmarole (Issue 10)	111	Nail Puzzle / Miscellaneous
Slydini	Metal To Metal	nail passes through steel nut with a hole that is too small, dealer's item	Related to Informant (Karl Fulves, 1996)	1996	Underworld (Issue 3)	31	Nail
Masklyn ye Mage	Coffin Nail	nail held by performer smokes	Related to Bizarre! Also published here The Grimoire of the Mages	Oct. 2000	Genii (Vol. 63 No. 10)	38	Nail Light & Fire / Smoke
Andrew Mayne	Nail in Head	Human Blockhead		2000	Shock Magic	19	Propless / Fakir Stuff Propless / Body Magic Nail
Jay Sankey	Spinach	thick nail bent		2004	Sankey Unleashed	124	Nail Mental Magic / Effects / Metal Bending
Erik Jan Hanussen	Can You Brea Chains?	Bending an Iron-Bar Tearing a Deck of Cards Pounding Nails into a Wooden Board Breaking a Chain Linnk	Also published here UHU, Jan. 1926	July 2004	Genii (Vol. 67 No. 7)	57	Chain / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Tearing Deck Mental Magic / Effects / Special Powers Nail Escapes / Bound
Mike Caveney	The Nailed Card	quarter to forehead with nailed coin, then presentation for invisible deck using fifty-two decks, card nailed to forehead		2013	Wonders	61	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Brainwave type Effects Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Gags Coin / Gaffed / Magnetic Nail Coin / Effect Themes / Gags / Knickle Head Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Brainwave & Invisible Deck
Tino Plaz	Mentales Plastik	comedy nail bending routine with a straw		2018	Moby Trick	4	Nail Mental Magic / Effects / Metal Bending