Penetration

39 entries in Knife & Paddle / Penetration
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown To thrust a bodkin into your head without hurt thin knife through head with blade that slips into handle, optional sponge with blood or wine for additional gore effect
Related to 1584 The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Issue XXXIII) 196
Unknown To thrust a bodkin through your toong, and a knife through your arme: a pittifull sight, without hurt or danger gimmicked knifes with bend in middle
 		1584 The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Issue XXXIII) 197
Unknown To cut halfe your nose asunder, and to heale it againe presentlie without anie salve gimmicked knife with gap, apparently cut through nose
Related to 1584 The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Issue XXXIII) 197
Unknown How to seeme to cut ones nose halfe off knife with half-moon cut out
Related to 1634 The Art of Legerdemain Discovered 22
Unknown How to seeme to thrust a Bodkin in your fore-head knife through head with blade that slips into handle, optional sponge with blood for additional gore effect
Related to 1634 The Art of Legerdemain Discovered 27
John B. Ward Knife Thru Coat borrowed pocket knife with newspaper through jacket
 		1939 Chap's Scrapbook (Vol. 2 No. 4) 1
Edward Victor A "Matter-Thro'-Matter" Penknife Effect penknife is pushed through a silk and seen penetrating an envelope on other side, silk is undamaged, prepared envelope
 		1940 ca. More Magic of the Hands — Part Two 135
Laurie Ireland Table Knife Through Body knife wrapped up in napkin penetrates body
 		1941 After the Dessert 13
Bob Hanko Indestructo handkerchief is tied over mouth of a glass and both put into a paper bag, then a knife is pushed through bag and handkerchief, handkerchief is unharmed and a silk is found in the glass
Also published here 1945 The Phoenix 51-100 (Issue 83) 337
Harrison Knife Through Coat six methods
 		1948/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 5 13
Seymour Davis Phantom Napkin knife through handkerchief
Related to 1949 Over the Coffee Cups 16
Ed Reno Knife Through the Arm classic gaffed knife
 		1954/27 Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 6 362
Horace E. Bennett Knife Through Coat with pocket knife and newspaper
 		1955 The New Phoenix 301-348 (Issue 322) 96
Bert Allerton Penetration with a Knife
 		1958 The Close-Up Magician 48
Max Malini Cutting the Menu knife through menu, fake blade
 		1962 Malini and His Magic 61
Bob Read Knife Through Jacket
1973 Thanks to Pepys... 28
Bob Hanko Indestructo handkerchief is tied over mouth of a glass and both put into a paper bag, then a knife is pushed through bag and handkerchief, handkerchief is unharmed and a silk is found in the glass
Also published here Oct. 1974 Intermagic (Vol. 2 No. 2) 38
Bob Read Business For Knife Through Coat ideas for knife through coat based on the Routine described in Bob Read's "Thanks To Pepys"
 		Oct. 1975 Pabular (Vol. 2 No. 2) 167
Arturo Sage Messer knife through handkerchief
Also published here
  • Abracadabra #508, Oct. 1955
 Nov. 1975 Intermagic (Vol. 3 No. 1&2) 16
Tan Hock Chuan Knife Through Coat
1977 The Magic of Tan Hock Chuan 43
Ken Brooke K.B. Knife Thru Coat
Also published here 1980 Ken Brooke's Magic — The Unique Years 56
Roy Baker Roy Baker's Method of "Knife Thro' Coat" Uses gimmicked knife
 		1983 Baker's Capers 12
"Magic" Christian Stelzel My Knife through Jacket with large kitchen knife and newspaper
 		1983 Lecture Magic 26
David Williamson Beelzebub's Blade napkin ripped by knife, restores and knife vanishes
Related to 1989 Williamson's Wonders 83
Ken Brooke Messer durch Jacke knife through jacket
Also published here Oct. 1990 Intermagic (Vol. 15 No. 4&5) 152
Jim Steinmeyer Perforation girl in box penetrated by multiple long knifes
 		1991 Device and Illusion 31
Hiroyuki Sakai Invisible Slit bill covered with a little piece of paper is cut with a knife and restored
 		1992 The Minotaur (Vol. 4 No. 3) 1
Al Cohen, Rick Herald Blade Runner table knife through credit card
Related to 1992 Magic with Credit Cards 52
Felix Farrell Pierced Polyester impromptu knife through jacket
Also published here 1995 Aus dem Effeff... 21
Felix Farrell Pierced Polyester knife through jacket
Also published here Apr. 1996 Apocalypse (Vol. 19 No. 4) 2632
Scott Wells Scott's Well knife through paper napkin
 		1997 The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 65) 1314
Tom Osborne Zwei Messer-Tricks knife through napkin, or knife vanishes or penetrates table
 		1997 Intermagic (Vol. 21 No. 3) 107
Al Baker Cutting a Card knife cuts through card, restored
Related to 2003 The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Instructions) 548
Al Baker Cutting a Card in Half with knive, gimmick
 		2003 The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Notebooks) 706
Unknown Indestructible Napkin knife through handkerchief
 		2011 Mr. Mysto's Wizard Academy 52
Reg Holden No Sleight of Hand Knife Thru Handkerchief
2012 The F.F.F.F. Book 125
Mike Caveney Halloween Card Stab on the back of a kneeling assistant, person stabbed
 		2013 Wonders 141
Mike Caveney Scissors, Coat, Silverware & Chicken knife through borrowed coat, production from coat of silverware, plates and chicken
  • The Newspaper
  • The Chicken
  • The Load Bag
  • Hiding a Chicken
  • Hiding a Chicken Load Bag
  • Newspaper Art
  • Shower of Silver
  • The Stool
  • The Ultimate Gimmick
  • Crash Landing
  • The Scissors
  • The Logic
  • Pre-Set
  • The Routine
 		2013 Wonders 373
Max Malini Cutting the Menu dinner knife through paper menu, extra tip of blade
Related to 2022 Max Malini 216