Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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misc:metal_bending [2016/07/25 21:28] stephenminchmisc:metal_bending [2017/08/08 15:28] denisbehr
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-The earliest instance of so far discovered of magical metal bending is "Ireland's Famous Bent Penny" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/22805/Ireland+s+Magic+Hand+Book+and+Catalog/13|Ireland's Magic Hand Book and Catalog]]// by Laurie Ireland and Carleton King, 1932, p. 11. Ireland's trick was presented as a gag in which a spectator supposedly squeezes the performer's fist too firmly, causing a penny inside to bend rather than disappear.+The earliest instance so far discovered of magical metal bending is "Ireland's Famous Bent Penny" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/22805/Ireland+s+Magic+Hand+Book+and+Catalog/13|Ireland's Magic Hand Book and Catalog]]// by Laurie Ireland and Carleton King, 1932, p. 11. Ireland's trick was presented as a gag in which a spectator supposedly squeezes the performer's fist too firmly, causing a penny inside to bend rather than disappear.
  
 "Atomic Penny" in Ben Berger's //Highlight Magic//, 1941, p. 11, takes the feat of a bending penny into a spectator's hand, which is the comedy climax of a multiphase routine in which the size of a penny waxes and wanes. "Atomic Penny" in Ben Berger's //Highlight Magic//, 1941, p. 11, takes the feat of a bending penny into a spectator's hand, which is the comedy climax of a multiphase routine in which the size of a penny waxes and wanes.