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With enough creativity and magical performance knowledge, one is able to make the illusion of vanishing something under certain conditions. There are many different principle used in doing vanish kinds of magic tricks. Let’s discuss an important now.

The two most common yet powerful magic effects are appearance and vanish. They are the two faces of the same coin, in the sense that the reverse of one can be used as the other one. The main difference that prevents the direct application of the reverse of a principle is the factor of anticipation. For vanish, the object to be vanished exists from the spectators’ perspective, and therefore they are anticipating any move to be executed on it. This adds difficulty to vanish tricks than production tricks.

If, however, we add the use of a form, it might be possible to accomplish a vanish through a slight modification. Suppose the handkerchief were equipped with a ring fake. Suppose it were even equipped with a ring form built so that this wire circle which simulates the top rim of the glass could be held at a fixed height above the palm of the hand, giving the appearance of the glass resting upon the hand.

When the magician does the trick, he first presents the glass and put it on the palm of his right hand. He then covers the glass with his gimmicked handkerchief with the ring form resting in line with the top edge of the glass. The left hand takes the ring through the handkerchief and pretends to be taking the glass from the right, while the right clips the foot of the glass with the second and the third fingers.

Now the audiences think that the left hand has the glass due to the illusion by the form. The right hand then opens the fingers with the clipped glass in order to reverse it under the palm. The ring is hung on a frame to look like a glass resting on the palm.

When the magician wants to present the vanish effect, he takes the illusionary glass which in fact is nothing more than a handkerchief and a ring with his left hand. At this moment, his body is turned to the left a little bit to provide the necessary cover for the right hand to dispose the real glass inside the secret pocket between the coat and the vest. Immediately, the right hand come up and takes the corner of the handkerchief. It is shook and the glass vanishes into thin air apparently.

The success of this trick lies in the ability to delay the time when the audiences expect you to do the move to accomplish the effect. This is an important application of misdirection. You can apply the principle to a lot of tricks.

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