Do you enjoy entertaining people?
Are you interested in learning how to do magic?
Practice doing these simple tricks at home, and people will believe that you really have magical powers!
Trick 1
The Moving Pencil
Tell your audience that you will make an object move without touching it - by using the power of your mind! First, put a book on a table, and place a pencil on top of it. Next, balance the pencil very carefully on the edge of the book. Then, bend forward and start saying "magic" words such as Abracadabra, bippity - boo, presto, change-o, move-o! While you are doing this, secretly blow on the pencil at the point marked "X" (see photo above). If you blow in just the right place, it will cause the pencil to move "magically"!
Trick 2
The Magic Pendulum
Make a pendulum by hanging any kind of weight from a piece of string. Ask someone to hold the pendulum, and tell them to ask a question. Tell them that the pendulum will swing in a straight line if the if the answer is "Yes" and move in a circle if the answer is "No." Without you doing anything, the pendulum will begin to swing! Even if the person holding it tries to prevent it from moving, it will move in answer to every question. Nobody is capable of explaining how this trick words. Some say that the thoughts of the person holding the pendulum make it move. In other words, this may be real magic!