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Come On! Every magician has one. Please share your magic horror stories with everyone. Here are two of mine:

1. I went into my classroom at lunchtime with a large novel, in hopes to perform the Telephone Book Tear. I gave the strongest person in the school a second novel about the same size as mine. He really is very strong, so I thought it would be fun for one of the weakest people in the class, me, to beat him in a test of strength. However, when I tried to tear my novel in half, I realized the spine of the novel was preventing me from doing the move necessary. I lifted my head from the novel to apologize and go into a card trick, and when I rose my head, the other boy I gave a novel to had genuinely torn it in half! I couldn't believe it!

2. While performing a kids show, I was ready to conclude with my Zombie routine. So, I had the lights dimmed since my cloth was quite sheer and went into the routine. However, the foulard I used was quite slippery and it fell right off the ball and gimmick! I was in a state of shock and had no idea what to do!

Hope you enjoyed! Let's hear your stories!

Michael Kras

Well ive recently started magic , so ive had the experience of being embarressed in school. The worst thing that went wrong was when there was a large crowd surrounding me while i was doing a small routine in the lunch hall, so i decided to show off a few tricks using my ghost gaff deck , it started off ok but i began to use the special smashed aces but i just happend to drop them and they had to fall face up . That may sound lame but there was a crowd of over 2O+

Michael Kras wrote:
1. I went into my classroom at lunchtime with a large novel, in hopes to perform the Telephone Book Tear. I gave the strongest person in the school a second novel about the same size as mine. He really is very strong, so I thought it would be fun for one of the weakest people in the class, me, to beat him in a test of strength. However, when I tried to tear my novel in half, I realized the spine of the novel was preventing me from doing the move necessary. I lifted my head from the novel to apologize and go into a card trick, and when I rose my head, the other boy I gave a novel to had genuinely torn it in half! I couldn't believe it!

Hmm that is the problem when you try to enter in to one-up-manship, with other people sometimes trying to be one of them "I am so clever types" dont do you any favours at all like you found out. Go take this expirance and use it your advantage.

A spectator grabbing for my loop while levitating a table-top 'no smoking' sign in a pub. I'd shown him the same effect earlier, and repeated it for some friends that arrived a bit later - he made a grab and the sign dropped...

That's why you should NEVER repeat an effect.

he made a grab and the sign dropped...

great opertunity to say to the guy... thanxs for breaking my concentration mate, sorry folks you have to concetrate real hard to get the levitaion just right.
now making maties hair catch fire with all that gell on it should be a bit eaier.... shall we see.

Zack,

Its a couple of years since I lost a loop, but hopefully you've learnt. When someone moves their hands towards me, my hands move away.

OK, beat this...

Using sl*** powder for a glass of water above a little kids head. Removed the piece of paper, and held it there. A few seconds later, the applause turned into laughter, because I hadn't used enough powder. The kid ended up covered in this water based substance.

I dont have to tell you, I wasn't invited back.

I was doing card magic at a party in someones garden. Ambitious card routine - some *rse was trashed and wavering about not saying anything on the spot. I could tell he was w*****ed but I had the rest of the crowds undying attention. Go to do an erdnase change and he threw up all over my hands.

b*****.

haha - i did an erdnase, then looked at the card and went "sh*t!" for i didnt think it had changed!

turns out it went form the 5 of diamonds to hearts...i was hoping for summit more visual....needless to say i got confused

ultimatecreate wrote:I was doing card magic at a party in someones garden. Ambitious card routine - some *rse was trashed and wavering about not saying anything on the spot. I could tell he was w*****ed but I had the rest of the crowds undying attention. Go to do an erdnase change and he threw up all over my hands.

b*****.

Wow. That's both hilarious and disgusting. Great stories guys!

I was performing and I started with an erdanase colour change (do they all starw with this, maybey we should stop doing them!) anyway I had 10+ people watching the card I waved my hand over the Ace of Diamonds for it to turn in to the ace of diamonds. I then realised that I had brought my one way force deck along by mistake. The trick wasn't very impressive!

Oh no wait! I have worse. I was perfroming Spooked. Put the cards on the floor and as you know the cards are meant to move and one is shot out, i cant explain why obvioulsy but I couldnt move the cards so they just stood there on the floor with no movement what so ever with their card truly lost into the deck!

At a kids magic show in a garden centre (don't ask), my first trick was the zombie. Which stopped levitating and rolled across the floor, through the feet of the spectators, and came to rest amongst a display of wellington boots.

A halloween kids show at the very same garden centre (but on a different date) one of my front teeth fell out. Luckily it was halloween and I managed to pretend it was part of the show.

Doing a card revelation with a "special" deck only to find that I've brought the wrong deck out of my pocket and have no idea what card the spec has chosen. This has happened a few times, but I don't actually mind it happening because it gives me chance to try out other ways of divining a chosen card that require a bit more brain power.

Last but not least, I was working as a tarot card reader at a ghost hunting night. I was doing a reading for a drunken lad in his 20's. The host for the evening came over to my table and told us that the entire party was now going to set off on their ghost hunt (at a castle type place), so if the lad didn't mind could he come and join the rest of the party. The lad turned around and told the host to: "**** off! This is my life we're talking about here! I'll finish when I'm good and ready!" Suddenly, being the sensitive psychic that I am, I picked up a lot of negative energy around this lad, and decided that his reading was over. The lad carried on drinking all night, abused an elderly medium who was working that evening (poor lady) and eventually hit the host and was escorted off the premises by 2 security guards.

It's never boring, that's for sure.

TheLondonI wrote:I was perfroming Spooked. Put the cards on the floor and as you know the cards are meant to move and one is shot out, i cant explain why obvioulsy but I couldnt move the cards so they just stood there on the floor with no movement what so ever with their card truly lost into the deck!

Hey, it could have been worse, instead of their card jumping out, their card could have stayed where it was, and the rest of the pack jumped away!

Actually, thats would be quite impressive....*grabs sketch book*

themagicwand wrote:At a kids magic show in a garden centre (don't ask), my first trick was the zombie. Which fell off its special thing and rolled across the floor, through the feet of the spectators, and came to rest amongst a display of wellington boots.

A halloween kids show at the very same garden centre (but on a different date) one of my front teeth fell out. Luckily it was halloween and I managed to pretend it was part of the show.

Doing a card revelation with a "special" deck only to find that I've brought the wrong deck out of my pocket and have no idea what card the spec has chosen. This has happened a few times, but I don't actually mind it happening because it gives me chance to try out other ways of divining a chosen card that require a bit more brain power.

Last but not least, I was working as a tarot card reader at a ghost hunting night. I was doing a reading for a drunken lad in his 20's. The host for the evening came over to my table and told us that the entire party was now going to set off on their ghost hunt (at a castle type place), so if the lad didn't mind could he come and join the rest of the party. The lad turned around and told the host to: "**** off! This is my life we're talking about here! I'll finish when I'm good and ready!" Suddenly, being the sensitive psychic that I am, I picked up a lot of negative energy around this lad, and decided that his reading was over. The lad carried on drinking all night, abused an elderly medium who was working that evening (poor lady) and eventually hit the host and was escorted off the premises by 2 security guards.

It's never boring, that's for sure.

How did your tooth fall out?

Reigning champ right here! Anyone want to try to top this?

How did your tooth fall out?

It was a cap that I'd had in since my early 20's - some 20 years ago. It had worked loose over a few months and I was due to visit the dentists the following day. The tooth however thought it would be great fun to jump out of my mouth just after I'd vanished a red handkerchief.