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Dai Vernon – The Man Who Fooled Houdini
Dai Vernon (June 11, 1894 – August 21, 1992) – born David Frederick Wingfield Verner, in Ottawa,Canada, was and still is known for his contributions to the world of magic. Vernon’s interest in magic was passed down to him … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Inventions, Wartime
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Houdini in “The Grim Game” Recovered Footage & His Voice on Wax Cylinders
“The Grim Game” – a silent film in which Houdini performed a high-flying stunt where two planes collide high above the onlookers below. One plane hurtles down towards the crowd and slams into the street with, of course, the damsel … Continue reading
Our Fancy – The Peanut Butter Solution: List of Ingredients
List of Ingredients: 1 really ripe banana 5 dead flies 1 rotten egg 3 licorice leaves A fistful of kitty litter 3 Connie Crisps 3 Crosbie Crackers 9 spoons of soil, a glass of pepper’s fizz and a spoonful of … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cooking Magic, Entertainment, Our Fancies
Tagged a glass of pepper's fizz, a spoonful of peanut butter, abandoned, art, but not too much, child labour, concoction, factory, fire, fist full of kitty litter, five dead flies, ghosts, haunted house, haunted mansion, homeless, kidnapping, magic, movie, nine spoons of soil, one rotten egg, paintbrushes, ripe banana, soccer, The Fright, The Peanut Butter Solution, three Connie Crisps, three Crosbie Crackers, three licorice leaves
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After the Ball – World’s 1st Adult Film
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, (Paris: December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938) was an illusionist and filmmaker famous for creating special effects such as dissolves, multiple exposure, hand-painted colour and time-lapse photography. Marie, is also know for the stop-trick, where he claimed he accidentally achieved … Continue reading
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Tagged A Trip to the Moon, After the Ball, Cabinet Fantastique of the Grévin Wax Museum, cinema, cinematography, Egypt Hall, Eugène Robert-Houdin, film, Hypnotist at Work, illusionist, John Nevil Maskelyne, London, magic, Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, New York, Paris, Peeping Tom at the Seaside, pornography, stag, stage acting, Star Film Company, The Impossible Voyage
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The Witch of New Dundee
About the year 1800, an old woman said to be a witch lived in New Dundee, northwest of Roseville, Ontario. It was said she possessed a copy of The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses and that she would use … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology
Tagged 1800, Book of Moses, cave paintings, drawings, editions, eigth, fables, Henri Breuil, magic, magician, mythical, mythology, New Dundee, ninth, Ontario, seals, seventh, shaman, shapeshifter, sigils, sixth, sketch, sorcerer, tales, tenth, therianthropes, Waterloo, witch
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