Having as I do a "google customised search" set for Magic and Magicians I'm able to quickly scan the latest bits and pieces from my favourite magic sites. On one particular forum a discussion has appeared (or perhaps continued) about the 'Best Magicians in history'.....

I already knew what card he had chosen, all I had to do now was to reveal it. Should I search for it and then reveal it? No, this was far too easy!

This article is an account of my first, yet most harrowing, experience in watching a magic show in Bucas Grande Island, Socorro, Surigao del Norte, Philippines. The magic show's closer featured the magician driving the spirit out of her lady assistant's body using his magic wand but such spirit failed to return to her body due to an anti-magic arcane material of one of the spectators. The lady assistant's life went back to normal after a teary-eyed magician's appeal for the concerned spectator to remove such anti-magic arcane material being buried within the vicinity.

That is true. You see as a magician my job is to fool you in an honest and ethical way. The key reason magic works is not because of the methods we use or the magic words we say.

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was in 1986 or so I think, my early days of the circus sideshow. I was young and just out of school. I spent my summer touring with the show as their house magician.