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burn:: a troublesome person who, instead of allowing himself to be misdirected, will not take his eyes off the magician's hands.
card force:: a type of trick in which an audience member is offered an apparently free choice of cards, when in fact the magician "forces" the selection, usually through sleight-of-hand.
escapology:: the practice of escaping from restraints, cages, or dangerous situations, as first popularized by the magician Harry Houdini (although the term was not coined until after his death).
French drop:: a simple illusion in which the magician pretends to move a coin from one hand to the other (but in fact leaves the coin in the original hand).
Geller, Uri:: a British-Israeli performer famous for having claimed that his tricks - among them spoon-bending and supposed mind-reading - were the result of actual psychic powers.
Henning, Doug James:: a magician, famous in the 1970s, who is credited with being the first to break with the traditional formal costume, in favor of long hair and casual clothes.
I.B.M.:: not to be confused with the computer company, the International Brotherhood of Magicians, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with over 15,000 members worldwide.
Linking Rings:: both a classic illusion believed to date to as far back as the first century and, as The Linking Ring, the name of a nearly century-old monthly publication of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
M5:: the magicians' name for a powerful neodymium magnet used to perform such tricks as manipulating objects "with the mind" and stopping watches.
Magician's Oath:: an oath that magicians traditionally swear; there are various forms but they always include a promise to never to reveal the secrets of tricks to a non-magician.
mentalism:: a school of magic that eschews showy tricks in favor of demonstrations of ESP and "mind control."
Miser's Dream:: a classic magic trick in which an apparently endless stream of coins are made to appear as if from thin air.
parlor magic:: magic performed for a limited group at a small venue or private party.
penetration:: a type of illusion in which an object is made to seem to pass through another harmlessly.
Pepper's Ghost:: a common illusion in which a sheet of glass or half-silvered mirror is used to reflect the partial (and therefore ghostly) images of objects in an unseen room.
psychokinesis (PK):: also called telekinesis, the supposed ability of some people to manipulate physical objects with mental ability alone.
quick-change artist:: a magician or entertainer who specializes in changing quickly from one costume to another, often adopting different characters along the way.
Ring:: the name given by the International Brotherhood of Magicians to a local chapter identified by number (Ring 371, for example, being the Icelandic Guild of Magicians).
Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugene:: a 19th century French magician who, amongst other accomplishments, helped quell an uprising in Algeria by demonstrating that French "magic" was more powerful than the local variety.
Stodare Egg:: a hollow egg, invented by "Colonel Stodare," a famous 19th century British magician, for concealing handkerchiefs and the like.
Swami Rama:: one of the first Himalayan yogi to allow himself to be studied by the West, he had the ability to voluntarily control bodily processes such as heart rate and temperature, and is alleged by some observers to have had psychokinetic abilities as well.