Penetration

44 entries in Knife & Paddle / Penetration

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	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 How to seeme to thrust a Bodkin in your fore-head (The Art of Legerdemain Discovered, 1634)	1584	The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Issue XXXIII)	196	Propless / Body Mutilation Knife & Paddle / Penetration Propless / Fakir Stuff
	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	Propless / Body Mutilation Knife & Paddle / Penetration Propless / Fakir Stuff
	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 How to seeme to cut ones nose halfe off (The Art of Legerdemain Discovered, 1634)	1584	The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Issue XXXIII)	197	Propless / Body Mutilation Knife & Paddle / Penetration Propless / Fakir Stuff
	How to seeme to cut ones nose halfe off	knife with half-moon cut out	Related to To cut halfe your nose asunder, and to heale it againe presentlie without anie salve (The Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1584)	1634	The Art of Legerdemain Discovered	22	Propless / Body Mutilation Knife & Paddle / Penetration Propless / Fakir Stuff
	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 To thrust a bodkin into your head without hurt (The Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1584)	1634	The Art of Legerdemain Discovered	27	Propless / Body Mutilation Knife & Paddle / Penetration Propless / Fakir Stuff
John B. Ward	Knife Thru Coat	borrowed pocket knife with newspaper through jacket		Oct. 1939	Chap's Scrapbook (Vol. 2 No. 4)	1	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket
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	Silk & Handkerchief / Destroyed & Restored Knife & Paddle / Penetration Silk & Handkerchief / Penetration of Other Objects Paper / Envelopes / Miscellaneous
Laurie Ireland	Table Knife Through Body	knife wrapped up in napkin penetrates body		1941	After the Dessert	13	Knife & Paddle / Penetration
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 Indestructo (Bob Hanko, Intermagic, 1974)	May 1945	The Phoenix (Issue 83)	337	Silk & Handkerchief / Destroyed & Restored Glass / Miscellaneous Knife & Paddle / Penetration
Harrison	Knife Through Coat	six methods		1948	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 5	13	Knife & Paddle / Penetration
Martin Gardner*	Coat Penetration	Impromptu Methods Cigarette Version		Oct. 1948	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 5)	475	Cigarette & Cigar / Penetration Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket
Milbourne Christopher*	Knife Through Coat	magician's joke on the knife through jacket		Apr. 1949	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 11)	529	Knife & Paddle / Penetration
Seymour Davis	Phantom Napkin	knife through handkerchief	Related to Wand Through Handkerchief (Seymour Davis, Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 5, 1948)	1949	Over the Coffee Cups	16	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Silk & Handkerchief / Penetration of Other Objects
Ed Reno	Knife Through the Arm	classic gaffed knife		1954	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 6	362	Knife & Paddle / Penetration
Horace E. Bennett	Knife Through Coat	with pocket knife and newspaper		Dec. 1955	The New Phoenix (Issue 322)	96	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket
Bert Allerton	Penetration	with a Knife		1958	The Close-Up Magician	48	Silk & Handkerchief / Penetration Knife & Paddle / Penetration
Max Malini	Cutting the Menu	knife through menu, fake blade		1962	Malini and His Magic	61	Knife & Paddle / Penetration
Bob Read	Knife Through Jacket			1973	Thanks to Pepys...	28	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket
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 Indestructo (Bob Hanko, The Phoenix, 1945)	Oct. 1974	Intermagic (Vol. 2 No. 2)	38	Silk & Handkerchief / Destroyed & Restored Glass / Miscellaneous Knife & Paddle / Penetration
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	Knife & Paddle / Penetration
Arturo	Sage Messer	knife through handkerchief	Also published here Abracadabra #508, Oct. 1955	Nov. 1975	Intermagic (Vol. 3 No. 1 & 2)	16	Silk & Handkerchief / Penetration Knife & Paddle / Penetration
"Joro" Bruno Hennig	Messer durch die Jacke	knife through jacket, jacket is hanging on a chair		1975	Joros Seminar	3	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket
Tan Hock Chuan	Knife Through Coat			1977	The Magic of Tan Hock Chuan	43	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket
Ken Brooke	K.B. Knife Thru Coat		Also published here Messer durch Jacke (Ken Brooke, Intermagic, 1990)	1980	Ken Brooke's Magic — The Unique Years	56	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket
Roy Baker	Roy Baker's Method of "Knife Thro' Coat"	Uses gimmicked knife		1983	Baker's Capers	12	Knife & Paddle / Penetration
"Magic" Christian Stelzel	My Knife through Jacket	with large kitchen knife and newspaper	Variations Messer durch Jacke (Alexander de Cova, Burners — Vol. 6, 2018)	1983	Lecture Magic	26	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket
Al Bertini	Al Bertini's Geistesblitze: Der Warentest	knife through borrowed handkerchief, unorthodox prop		1984	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 45 No. 3)	66	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Silk & Handkerchief / Penetration of Other Objects
David Williamson	Beelzebub's Blade	napkin ripped by knife, restores and knife vanishes	Related to The Knife through Handkerchief (David Williamson, Opus, 1989)	1989	Williamson's Wonders	83	Silk & Handkerchief / Destroyed & Restored Silk & Handkerchief / Penetration Knife & Paddle / Penetration Knife & Paddle / Vanish Paper / Paper Napkin
Ken Brooke	Messer durch Jacke	knife through jacket	Also published here K.B. Knife Thru Coat (Ken Brooke, Ken Brooke's Magic — The Unique Years, 1980)	Oct. 1990	Intermagic (Vol. 15 No. 4 & 5)	152	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket
Jim Steinmeyer	Perforation	girl in box penetrated by multiple long knifes		1991	Device and Illusion	31	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Illusions / Harmed & Healed / Miscellaneous
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	Bill / Penetration Knife & Paddle / Penetration Bill / Torn & Restored
Alfred Lee Cohen, Rick Herald	Blade Runner	table knife through credit card	Related to marketed 1931 also in: Cutting a Card (The Secret Ways of Al Baker, 2003)	1992	Magic with Credit Cards	52	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Credit Card / Penetration
Felix Farrell	Pierced Polyester	impromptu knife through jacket	Also published here Pierced Polyester (Felix Farrell, Apocalypse, 1996)	1995	Aus dem Effeff...	21	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket
Felix Farrell	Pierced Polyester	knife through jacket	Also published here Pierced Polyester (Felix Farrell, Aus dem Effeff..., 1995)	Apr. 1996	Apocalypse (Vol. 19 No. 4)	2632	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket
Scott Wells	Scott's Well	knife through paper napkin		1997	The Trapdoor — Volume Three (Issue 65)	1314	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Paper / Paper Napkin
Tom Osborne	Zwei Messer-Tricks	knife through napkin, or knife vanishes or penetrates table		1997	Intermagic (Vol. 21 No. 3)	107	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Knife & Paddle / Vanish Paper / Paper Napkin
Al Baker	Cutting a Card	knife cuts through card, restored	Also published here marketed 1931 Related to Blade Runner (Alfred Lee Cohen, Rick Herald, Magic with Credit Cards, 1992) Cutting the Menu (Max Malini, Max Malini, 2022)	2003	The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Instructions)	548	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Miscellaneous
Al Baker	Cutting a Card in Half	with knive, gimmick		2003	The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Notebooks)	706	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / Miscellaneous
	Indestructible Napkin	knife through handkerchief		2011	Mr. Mysto's Wizard Academy	52	Silk & Handkerchief / Penetration Knife & Paddle / Penetration Paper / Paper Napkin
Reg Holden	No Sleight of Hand Knife Thru Handkerchief			2012	The F.F.F.F. Book	125	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Silk & Handkerchief / Penetration of Other Objects
Mike Caveney	Halloween Card Stab	on the back of a kneeling assistant, person stabbed		2013	Wonders	141	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stabbing Routines / with Knife on the table Illusions / Harmed & Healed / Miscellaneous
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	Table & Servante Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket Animal / Chicken
Alexander de Cova	Messer durch Jacke	knife through jacket	Inspired by My Knife through Jacket ("Magic" Christian Stelzel, Lecture Magic, 1983)	2018	Burners — Vol. 6	191	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Clothing / Jacket Hand Gimmicks / False Finger
Max Malini	Cutting the Menu	dinner knife through paper menu, extra tip of blade	Related to marketed 1931 also in: Cutting a Card (The Secret Ways of Al Baker, 2003)	2022	Max Malini	216	Knife & Paddle / Penetration Paper / Torn & Restored