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Much more of it is a trick than David Blaine says so. I think Penn Jillette put it quite well: "Do you really believe a magician who last week was doing car tr

Much more of it is a trick than David Blaine says so. I think Penn Jillette put it quite well: "Do you really believe a magician who last week was doing car tricks but this week is doing 'real' magic?"(paraphrased). Remember: Magicians are allowed to lie. Sometimes it's just a simple thing like "I never touched the deck of cards" when actually they were holding them at the start of the trick. Other times it is fake explanation. "I am reading you using psychology" is a popular one with mentalists. Other people on a magicians TV show may lie too. I don't know the particular David Blaine trick you are talking about, but I wouldn't be surprised if he does not actually chew on real glass.

tzs 8y ago
> Remember: Magicians are allowed to lie There was a magician on "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" recently who told an interesting lie. His lie was that he was doing a trick. His "trick" involved snatching the right card out of a fast falling stream of cards, with the stream going fast enough that it seems impossible beyond the ability of a human to use counting or timing to pinpoint the right card and reach in and grab it. In fact, he had developed the speed and skill to do just that. Here's a page from the magician showing how he does it: https://www.kostyakimlat.com/blog/fool-us-magic-trick-revealed https://www.kostyakimlat.com/blog/fool-us-magic-trick-reveal...