He might invite members of the audience to join him on stage to inspect the swords — or even pull them from his mouth. Several sources support the idea that there's a trick to sword swallowing. Famed magician
This proved too much forHarry Houdini, the famous escape artist, who had successfully eluded both World War I service and the influenza pandemic. Though a friend of Doyle, Houdini, with his deep knowledge of magic tricks, was a natural skeptic of spiritualism, which he had studied for years...
Straitjackets were designed to incapacitate the people buckled into them, which is exactly why it’s so thrilling to watch a magician, illusionist, or escape artist wriggle out of one as part of their act. If you’re an aspiring Houdini, you’ll be excited to know that pulling off a dar...