Penetration

43 entries in Knife & Paddle / Penetration
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
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
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
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
How to seeme to cut ones nose halfe off knife with half-moon cut out
Related to 1634
The Art of Legerdemain Discovered
22
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
 		Oct. 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 May 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 83)
337
Martin Gardner Coat Penetration
  • Impromptu Methods
  • Cigarette Version
 		Oct. 1948
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 5)
475
Harrison Knife Through Coat six methods
 		1948/27
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 5
13
Milbourne Christopher Knife Through Coat magician's joke on the knife through jacket
 		Apr. 1949
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 11)
529
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
 		Dec. 1955
The New Phoenix (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
"Joro" Bruno Hennig Messer durch die Jacke knife through jacket, jacket is hanging on a chair
 		1975
Joros Seminar
3
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
Variations 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
 		Sep. 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 toAlso published here
  • marketed 1931
 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
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
Alexander de Cova Messer durch Jacke knife through jacket
Inspired by 2018
Burners — Vol. 6
191
Max Malini Cutting the Menu dinner knife through paper menu, extra tip of blade
Related to 2022
Max Malini
216