![]() Did Criss manage to find two more people with sacral agenesis and convince to be on his show? It is certainly possible. Now, what about the second version of the trick? Those are clearly two completely different people. But as long as we know how the trick was done, the identity of the woman really isn’t that important. So who did Criss use? It is rumored that the woman in the first version of the trick is Rose Siggins, however I have not seen any serious evidence for that claim, and it is not really clear from the video. They are actors, and I will let you be the judge of the quality of their acting.Ĭriss of course couldn’t use (now deceased) Eck, but Eck was far from being the only one with this condition. Yes, that includes those running around and screaming in horror. In this version, two people are cut in half and then switched – the girl gets the guys legs and vice versa.įirst thing to understand is that all the people participating in this trick are stooges. However, a newer version of this trick is even more mindblowing. He asks two other spectators to hold her arms and legs, and when they each pull in their direction, the woman’s body seemingly splits in two parts as she screams in pure horror: In the basic version of this illusion, Criss asks a woman to lie down on a park bench. Not only is his adaptation of the trick way more horrifying and disturbing than most, it is also much harder to figure out just how he did it.īut let’s look at the trick first. However, if we were to choose just one version of ‘cutting lady in half’ trick as the best, there is little doubt Criss Angel would be a winner. The famous duo of Penn and Teller was known for using the second method during their shows in Las Vegas - and (mostly) showing how the trick was performed afterward.Magicians have been cutting innocent women in half since the first days of magic, and they have been getting better and better at it. How do magicians do the sawing a person in half trick – Illusion The carved-out table is then used as a place for the “victim” to place her legs while the box allegedly containing her whole body is then sawed through, as shown in the diagram.Īgain, false feet are used to sustain the illusion - sometimes even motorized ones that wiggle back and forth to add to the spectacle - and the horror. Method two involves placing the box on a false table. The box is sawed through, pulled slightly apart, and the audience is amazed. Method one involves presenting the chest or box side-on to the audience, who assumes the box is only wide enough to accommodate the magician’s lovely assistant - since they can’t see how deep the box is from their perspective.Īs shown in the accompanying figure, the box is actually wide enough that the assistant can pull their legs up past the cut line, and the feet are replaced with a set of lifelike fake feet. So let’s look at the two common methods in use today - the ones for which we have good descriptions, at any rate. ![]() Of course, there are more than two ways to skin a cat saw a woman in half, but as we all know, magicians are rather secretive about their methods.
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