Sawing a lady in half illusion
The sawing a lady in half illusion is a stage magic trick where a magician appears to saw a person in half and then reassemble them. The trick often involves a wooden box with hidden compartments and a lovely assistant who fits inside the box.
Beneath the blade
One of the most famous stage magic tricks is sawing a woman in half. The trick isn’t in the sawn in half bit. Anyone can saw in half a lady. The trick at the trickster’s table is in Putting the two halves back together (magicians call it, the “restoration”). The secrets behind magic’s greatest illusions with Hiding the elephant.
The classic illusion begins
This illusion is a classic and one of the most well known in all magic. In this illusion, a woman is apparently sawed into two halves. The magician displays her body, then covers it with a box before sawing the box in half. After pulling the halves apart proving that his lovely assistant was indeed sawn in half, the illusionist rolls the two halves back together. The lovely assistant frolics herself out of the box and it seems as if her body is restored back to its original form.
Split decision: dividing audiences and assistants for decades
