String Magic Trick: How To Extract String From The Stomach
One of the many string magic tricks that you may have seen is the one performed by David Blaine though many other magicians too have performed various different string magic tricks over the years. Among the many such string magic tricks is the one in which the magician rolls some thread using his fingers to make it into a ball, which is swallowed by the magician and which is then apparently seen coming out from the magician’s stomach. All the while, the magician appears to be in considerable pain and on baring his stomach seems to visibly extract the string from out of his stomach.
Create A Pocket
This is a string magic trick that can leave the spectators totally amazed though the method applied requires a bit of simple trickery, which is enough to convince the spectators that the thread is indeed appearing to be coming out of the magician’s stomach. All that it requires is to create a pocket on the stomach into which is placed an exact duplicate of the string, which has a small piece sticking out.
Of course, you have to make sure that this pocket looks exactly like your skin and the magician actually does not even swallow the string; instead, it is hidden between the thumb and fingers and the whole act should be convincing enough for the spectators to believe that the string has actually been swallowed. It is more a question of good acting rather than any plan, and it requires that the magician creates a convincing illusion that he has pushed the thread down his throat and then extracted it from his stomach.
Another interesting string magic trick is one in which a piece of brown twine is cut by a spectator and the magician shows the two pieces far apart to prove that the string is indeed two different pieces altogether. Then, with the help of magic the string is restored into one single piece. The technique behind this simple string magic trick is to have some ‘magician’s wax’ applied on each end of the twine. The magician then gets the spectator to cut the string and keeps his hands far apart.
Through a simple sleight of the hand that requires a bringing together of the hands so that the waxed ends meet and overlap, you can get the string to join together once more upon a tight squeezing of both ends between thumb and fingers. Once the two separate ends are joined together thanks to the magician’s wax, you will have the two pieces joined as one, which will convince the spectators that something magical has been done to create a single thread from two pieces.
There are many other string magic tricks because the magician is an enterprising person that always thinks up new and novel tricks to perform. These were but a couple of instances of popular string magic tricks.
