A woman is carried by ropes, then sawn in half in a wooden box; fortunately, it will come out in one piece. This attraction created in the 20s is signed by the American magician Howard Thurston. Today, his miraculous and terrifying box is on display like a treasure at the Musée de la Magie in Paris. Before him, the very first to cut a woman in public was the English illusionist PT Selbit. At the time, the technologies were rudimentary.
“There was a lot of evolution, transparent boxes, with double saws … It then became a circular saw, Mr. Richiardi Junior presented the woman sawed in two with this circular saw which blew blood everywhere“, Explain Gérard Majax, illusionist magician. Whatever the process, the woman cut in half has remained, for a century, one of the best kept secrets of magic.
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