Hold a pencil loosely between your thumb and fingers. Shake your hand slightly while moving the pencil up and down—the optical illusion makes it look bendy. Pretend to drop the coin into your ...

I'll teach you how to remove your pinkie finger and restore it, pull your thumb in half, push one hand through the other hand, and so much more. All of these magic tricks are very visual ...

say “abracadabra,” and open your empty hand while the toothpick sits on the back of your thumb. It will look like it vanished from thin air. Some magic tricks get a lot of mileage simply for ...

The ability to occlude the thumb is the key to the magic trick, so the thumb must be opposable. Garcia-Pelegrain and colleagues replaced the coin with morsels of food: peanuts for the Capuchins ...

Magic evokes a sense of wonder in us all. We would all like to try our hand at magic tricks — nothing like a book to tell us. How to Levitate and Other Great Secrets of Magic is proceeds to do ...

“I was that guy who comes out at dinnertime and does random magic ... For this trick, Garcia-Pelegrin has the back of his hand facing the bird, holding a worm with fingers and thumb pointed ...