WAlan Alan was a British escapologist and magician. He originated tricks that have subsequently become familiar features of the repertoire of other performers and he was honoured by The Magic Circle.
WÉric Antoine is a French comedy magician, theatre director, actor and television presenter. In 2006, he was a contestant on the first season of La France a un incroyable talent on M6. Antoine has been one of the show's judges since 2015. He presented the French version of All Together Now in 2019. He has been the presenter of the French version of Lego Masters since 2020 and Show Me Your Voice since 2021. He has appeared in one episode of the French version of Top Chef in 2018 and has been a contestant on Fort Boyard in 2020.
WThe Assistant's Revenge is a transposition illusion in which two performers change places. It was created by magician and inventor Robert Harbin.
WPhil Cass is an Australian magician and comedy entertainer based in Sydney. He was the recipient of the Gold MO Award for 2014 Australian Performer of the Year.
WChristian Chelman is a Belgian magician born in 1957. He specializes in close-up magic, card magic, mentalism, bizarre magic, storytelling magic and fantastic illusionism.
WShamsudheen Cherpulassery is an Indian magician from Kerala. He won the Kalasree award from Kerala Sangeeta Nataka Akademi in 2014. He is an expert in the "Mango Trick" magic.
WThe Clairvoyants are an Austrian magician and mentalist duo. The two of them have been performing together since 2011. They finished runner-up to Grace VanderWaal on season 11 of America's Got Talent.
WConjuring is an illustrated book by James Randi. Randi gives a detailed history of conjuring, more commonly known as magic, said to be the world's second oldest profession. It includes detailed portraits of conjurors, including the Harry Blackstone, Sr., Harry Blackstone, Jr., Harry Houdini and his entourage, Howard Thurston, Robert Heller, Joe Berg, and others.
WStuart Cumberland (1857–1922) was an English mentalist known for his demonstrations of "thought reading".
WNani Darnell is the widow and former assistant of American magician Mark Wilson. As Wilson's co-star throughout his television magic career, Darnell heavily influenced public perceptions of magicians' assistants.
WDavid Copperfield's laser illusion is an illusion performed by David Copperfield in several magic shows. The magician or his assistant is cut by a "laser" into two or more parts and starts walking.
WArnold De Biere was a German magician.
WElymas, also known as Bar-Jesus, is a Jew described in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 13, in the New Testament. Acts of the Apostles calls him a magus, which the King James Bible translates as "sorcerer." "Elymas the Sorcerer Struck with Blindness" is the title of a famous cartoon by Raphael, which served as the inspiration for woven tapestries in the Vatican.
WOttokar Fischer Marteau was an Austrian magician.
WIn stage magic, a force is a method of controlling a choice made by a spectator during a trick. Some forces are performed physically using sleight of hand, such as a trick where a spectator appears to select a random card from a deck but is instead handed a known card by the magician. Other forces use equivocation to create the illusion of a free decision in a situation where all choices lead to the same outcome.
WGreg Frewin is a Canadian illusionist and "World Champion of Magic". His awards include First Place at the International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM); The Gold Medal of Excellence, also from the IBM; First Place at the Society of American Magicians' annual magic convention competition; and first place at FISM, the "Olympics of Magic", which were held in Yokohama, Japan in 1994.
WLewis Jack Ganson was an English magician who became one of the most prolific writers in magic, going on to write more than sixty books on the subject.
WJohn Gaughan is an American manufacturer of magic acts and equipment for magicians based in Los Angeles, California. His style of work is classic, not based heavily on machinery and technology.
WA gibeciere is a large pouch-like device used by magicians as a utility device, most often to aid in the performance of the famous magic trick known as "The Cups and Balls". In modern times, it is often used by street magicians due to its ability to hold large items such as fruits, various balls and sometimes stuffed or even real animals. It is commonly held around the performer's waist by a belt, in plain sight, and the pouch commonly rests along the front of the body, just below the waistline.
WSven Lennart Green is a Swedish world champion close-up/card magician, a title which he won in 1991 at the FISM convention in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is known for his seemingly chaotic routines which, in spite of first appearances, display great skill. His original techniques and presentation style form an unorthodox and innovative contribution to sleight of hand magic.
WCarl-Einar Häckner, also Charlie Häckner, is a Swedish illusionist, actor and comedian.
WThe hat-trick is a classic magic trick where a performer will produce an object out of an apparently empty top hat.
WHugard's Magic Monthly was a magic periodical published June 1943 – April 1965. The magazine was created and edited by Jean Hugard until his death in 1959, when Fred Braue took over as editor. After Braue's death, the magazine continued to be published by Blanca López until its final issue, number 245. A significant portion of Martin Gardner's Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic Tricks was originally published in Hugard's Magic Monthly.
WA hybrid image is an image that is perceived in one of two different ways, depending on viewing distance, based on the way humans process visual input. A technique for creating hybrid images exhibiting this optical illusion was developed by Aude Oliva of MIT and Philippe G. Schyns of University of Glasgow, a method originally proposed by Schyns and Oliva in 1994. Hybrid images combine the low spatial frequencies of one picture with the high spatial frequencies of another picture, producing an image with an interpretation that changes with viewing distance.
WInvisible thread is very thin monofilament thread used by magicians to make small, lightweight objects seem to levitate and animate. It is usually made from nylon which has been separated into individual strands. A famous illusion is the Floating Bill.
WThe Jinx was a magic periodical edited and published by Theodore Annemann from October 1934 – December 1941. It was originally a monthly magazine but began weekly publication with no. 61 in October 1939. It has been described in M-U-M as "one of the greatest magazines ever published" and in The Linking Ring as "probably the greatest magic magazine of all time". Many publications have since followed the format of The Jinx. The complete magazine has been republished by Lou Tannen as a three volume facsimile.
WJosef P. Freud was a Viennese magician.
WSimon Lovell is an English comedy magician, card sharp, actor, and self-admitted confidence man. His trademark pieces are finding an audience member's card in his mouth and a humorous straitjacket escape. Lovell appeared on VH1's popular reality show Celebracadabra, on which he and other magicians trained celebrities to perform magic for audiences.
WA magic store is an establishment which sells materials for performing magic tricks. Magic shops often also sell practical jokes and novelty items, and frequently serve as informal gathering places for amateur magicians, with some hosting organized magic clubs.
WMagigram was a magic magazine published by Supreme Magic in Bideford, England from September 1966 – February 1995. It started as a bimonthly magazine but became monthly in September 1971. It was edited for its whole run by Ken de Courcy. A complete file contains 306 issues and over 20,000 pages.
WMahatma was a monthly magic periodical founded by George Little, which was published March 1895 – February 1906. According to Alfredson and Daily, it was "the first English language magical serial of any substance". With the September 1902 issue, it became the official magazine of the Society of American Magicians. Mahatma was printed in the back of New York City's Martinka's magic shop.
WSteve Marshall is a Tokyo-based magician, clown, writer and artist who performs in English and Japanese. Marshall became interested in magic at age eight when he received a Marshall Brodien TV Magic Set for Christmas. In 1983 Marshall attended the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Venice Florida. Upon graduation he was one of only eleven students to receive a performing contract to tour with The Greatest Show on Earth.
WMechanical magic constitutes a class of illusion magic which is performed for an audience, often in a theater or upon a stage. In this form of magic, the magician appears to perform a series of seemingly impossible feats aided by various hidden mechanical devices which are operated without the audience detecting their action. It was popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
WMoi-Yo Miller was the stage name of Mona Loretta Miller, an Australian entertainer who toured the world as a magician's assistant and illusionist of the stage magician Dante, during the 1930s and 1940s
WA one-way deck is a deck of playing cards where the back of the cards has a pattern that can be oriented to have a "top" and "bottom". Magicians and card sharps can use the orientations of cards in one-way decks to encode information that allows them to perform card tricks.
WPalming is a technique for holding or concealing an object in the hand. It is used frequently by magicians to conceal a card, coin, or other object. When it is done skillfully, the hand containing the palmed object is perceived to be completely empty.
WHenri Robin (1811–1874), born Henrik Joseph Donckel, was a French illusionist, born in Hazebrouck. In the early 1850s, he performed at Windsor Castle, at the request of Queen Victoria. In 1861, he became the first illusionist to offer a full programme of magic at Egyptian Hall in London. Between 1862 and 1869, he managed a theatre in the Boulevard du Temple, Paris. His most well-known illusion in these years was "The Medium of Inkerman", in which a drum on stage was apparently struck by an unseen spirit, in response to questions from the audience.
WTalma was the stage name of Mary Ann Ford, a magician who is best known for performing with her husband Servais Le Roy in the act "Le Roy, Talma & Bosco".
WJuan Tamariz-Martel Negrón known professionally as Juan Tamariz or just Tamariz, is a Spanish magician.
WEdward Victor, born Edward Neuschwander, was a notable stage magician. He was an early member of the Magic Circle and was promoted to the Inner Magic Circle, and for over thirty years was president of the Merlin Magical Society.
WValentine Augustus Walker was an English magician, escape artist and illusion designer. He was born in Moseley, Birmingham to Joseph Walker, a landscape gardener, and his wife Emma. Val Walker worked as an electrical apparatus maker, later serving in the Royal Navy and was billed as the "Wizard of the Navy". Walker is credited as the designer of the Radium Girl illusion. His most famous escape was "The Tank in the Thames" where he was bolted into a steel tank lowered into the river Thames from the Sea-Scout Training Ship, Northampton on 20 August 1920. He escaped in 20 seconds. He was married in 1913 to Ethel Dora Harris, the daughter of Thomas Daniel Harris and his wife Emma Ellson. He retired from the stage in 1924, returning briefly in 1939, under the name of 'Val Enson', with an illusion called "The Aquamarine Girl".