The trick was done by having the assistant rest on a flat board concealed inside her dress, connected to a metal bar going out the side into the backstage which was hidden by the assistant's dress and the stage curtain. The Buffalo writer John Northern Hilliard wrote that the levitation was a marvel of the twentieth century and "the crowning achievement of Mr. Kellar supposedly developed this trick by abruptly walking onto the stage during a levitation show by John Nevil Maskelyne, seeing what he needed to know, and leaving.
He would then levitate her, passing a hoop back and forth along her body to show that she was not being suspended. "The Levitation of Princess Karnac" Īmerican magician Harry Kellar performed a trick where his assistant, introduced as a Hindu princess, was brought onto the stage apparently sleeping on a couch. The chair suspension is an illusion where a person appears to float in midair, supported only by the back of a fold-up chair. This illusion is also known as the King Rising levitation. When the performer stands on the tip of the hidden foot, the two shoes are raised together, and the audience assumes that these are both of the performer's feet. The trick is performed by removing the shoe furthest from the audience, and turning that foot 90 degrees away from the audience, with the empty shoe clamped between both feet. The levitation usually lasts just a few seconds.
Both feet are clearly seen to be in the air. The performer suddenly appears to levitate a few inches above the ground. The performer's whole body is clearly visible. The performer's legs are commonly covered for a moment at the beginning of the effect, perhaps by a jacket.
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