Wood

22 entries in Wood
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown To make a shoale of goslings drawe a timber log some geese draw a log of wood, vague, probably thread
 		1584 The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Issue XXX) 192
Unknown The Bundle of Firewood hollow bundle
 		1890 More Magic 287
Unknown The Paper Ribbon and the Barber's Pole long paper coil from hat, then pole (paper, switched for wooden pole by assistant)
 		1890 More Magic 300
Bland A Barber's Pole from an Egg paper spiral "pole", later switched for wooden one
 		1890 More Magic 340
Samuel "St. Roman" Thiersfeld Der Großpapa und sein Enkel No. 34, small and large wooden cone penetrate table under cone cover
 		1899 Jedermann Zauberkünstler! 98
John Willmann Das Archimedes-Brett floating piece of wood in front of performer's body, attachment to sort of belt
 		Aug. 1903 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 9 No. 8) 123
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
Frank Lane, U. F. Grant The Folding Half Dollar a piece of wood transposes with a half dollar
 		1935 They're Off 28
Unknown A Surgical Operation splinter pulled out by spectator from performer's hand becomes long hair, gag
 		1937 The Magic Annual for 1937 96
Karl Fulves Parablox paper box used to take props from it, at the end it changes to solid block of wood, posed as problem, see also p. 402 for solution by Bill Taylor
Related to
  • "Boxes or Blocks" (The Magic Wand, June-Sep 1933)
Variations 		Nov. 1970 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 6 No. 1) 374
George Weisensel Weisensel's Famous Splinter from the Hand as splinter is removed from hand by spectator, it is several inches long
 		1975 Another Close-up Cavalcade 152
Stephen Minch Turn of the Century Tiltings and Tappings balsa wood tear shape under glass dome starts rocking, then screwdriver moves under the jar
 		1975 Mind & Matter 43
Al Mann The Falling Block block of wood falls, discussion on different methods
Related to
  • Ed Mellon's MentalWise, Vol. II #12 and Vol. III #1, and George Arrowsmith's idea with playing cards "Arrowsmith's Assorted Myseries", Tom Fitzgerald's "A Block from the Wall of Jericho" in Sam Dalal'
 1981 The Shattered Chalice 11
Frank Cleaver Block Off block with hole slid in box, fixed with wand, it slides free
Related to 1988 The Chronicles (Issue 34) 1400
Sid Fleischman Five Minutes of Voodoo presentation for block that falls over (shifting weight)
 		1993 The Charlatan's Handbook 43
David Berglas Do-It-Yourself one spectator hammers some nails in a piece of wood, a second drills some holes and a third has to saw off a piece, prediction matches
 		2002 The Mind & Magic of David Berglas 91
P. T. Selbit Mislaid Eggs three cylinders, four eggs put in one of them, solid wooden block in another one, eggs travel into cylinder with wood, wood into third one
Also published here
  • P. T. Selbit, The Magical Entertainer, 1906, p. 36
 2002 The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic 174
Harry Houdini Cone and Egg hat with plate on table, egg on hat, covered with paper cone, a wooden cone vanishes under handkerchief, under paper cone is now wooden cone, egg produced from elbow, egg-cone sequence, wooden cone reappears in hat
Also published here
  • Harry Houdini, Houdini on Magic, ed. Walter B. Gibson and Morris N. Young, 1953, p. 188
 2002 The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic 177
Jay Sankey Family Tree half of a pencil changes into wooden branch with twigs
 		2004 Sankey Unleashed 65
Tom Stone Wooden Sign "signed card" with isolated card stapled to piece of wood
Inspired by 2011 Maelstrom 178
Ryan Schlutz Fing-Jit-Su spectator breaks small wood with finger, then flicks deck at selection
Related to 2011 Making the Cut 51
Mike Pisciotta Proustian Omens stop trick using a falling Telekinetic Pen/Timber as stopping sign
 		2020 As Above, So Below 31