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How to saw a person in half: 100 years of a sensational illusion


How to saw a person in half: 100 years of a sensational illusion
From David Copperfield to Paul Daniels, the trick is as iconic as pulling a rabbit from a hat
Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 06:00
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Sorcar, the Indian magician, cuts his assistant Dipty Dey in half in London in 1956. Photograph: Terry Fincher/Keystone/Getty
 
A hundred years ago next weekend a magician named Percy Thomas Tibbles literally and laboriously sawed through a sealed wooden box that contained a woman.
It was a sensation that has since become one of the best-known magic tricks, performed with all manner of tools and varying degrees of blood – always involving someone cut in half and nearly always with them miraculously put back together. ....

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Split in two: magicians to celebrate 100 years of sawing people in half


Last modified on Sun 10 Jan 2021 23.36 EST
One hundred years ago next weekend, an English magician called Percy Thomas Tibbles literally and laboriously sawed through a sealed wooden box that contained a woman.
It was a sensation and has since become one of the best known magic tricks, performed with all manner of tools and varying degrees of blood – always involving someone cut in half and nearly always with them miraculously put back together.
On Sunday 17 January, the Magic Circle will mark the centenary of sawing someone in half, an illusion as iconic, its president Noel Britten said, as pulling a rabbit out of a hat. ....

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