100 years of the famous trick … and magicians of the world celebrate

A hundred years ago, magician P.T.slbitt put a woman in a box at the Finsbury Park Theater in London and split the box with a chainsaw in half, in a magic paragraph that has become a classic.

And magicians from around the world will meet via the Internet early next week, to celebrate the centenary of this distinctive paragraph, according to what “Reuters” reported, Friday.

“This passage has been implemented and has become the most influential and famous optical illusion ever in my opinion,” said magician and historian Mike Caffini, who is working on a book on optical illusions.

He added, “The magician did not perform this trick on an inanimate object. He did it on a human, which took it to a completely new level.”

Over the years, magicians introduced modifications to the trick, such as pushing the two parts of the body apart.

The famous magician David Copperfield presented his own version of the trick, called “The Death Sue” or “The Saw of Death,” in which he performs the trick on himself using a giant saw that splits his body in half.

Copperfield said in an interview that will be shown during the scheduled ceremony online, Sunday, that he was actually infected sometimes.

The London-based Magic Circle will host the event, which will be broadcast live via Facebook.

Debbie McGee, the widow of British television magician Bolda Niels, will be among the guests, and she will talk about her surviving more than once from a split-body segment.