It is said that all the great magicians perform the same illusion: cutting A Woman In Half.

However, this is not 100% accurate. Most magicians perform a version of the box trick, which is cleverly disguised as a sawing half trick.


In this box illusion the volunteer performing the illusion is selected from the audience, and then placed in a box with a cut cut across its center. It is closed to trap the inside. The magician adds helium-filled balloons with the box color to give it a bit of glamour.

The box is presented in all directions to the audience as empty and is then cut by the magician in half with a saw. To everyone's delight, the lovely assistant has escaped!

This illusion is based on two boxes that can be switched out between shows or used to perform other tricks of magic.

box sawings 's cut-out should be able to support the weight of the person who is using it. It is filled helium-filled balloons that are the same color as the box, either red or blue.

Most box illusions are made out of styrofoam or wood and painted to conceal their use as a prop for magic.

The box's cut-out central area should be snugly positioned around the worker without causing discomfort, and designed to allow her to easily get out on her own.

The box is separated into two parts which are one upper half and one lower part that will end up being both the bottom and top box pieces respectively. Each piece requires a box front and back and four side panels to provide stability. It is important these panels have a snug fit so the box halves don't break when being shown to the audience.

The cut-out's central area must be shaped so that it is able to support the assistant's weight and also allow the lovely assistant to move comfortably within it without taking up too much excess space.

The box panels are glued together along their edges to create a box by using a strong adhesive, such as liquid nails or gorilla glue. In addition the four corners of the panel must be secured on top of each other to ensure strength.

The illusion of a box includes one upper half box piece which will ultimately turn into the top of the box and one lower half box piece that will eventually become the box's bottom. Each box piece requires the front and back of the box as well as four side panels to ensure stability.

The box's cut-out's center must be able to hold the weight of the person. It is then filled helium-filled balloons which match the color of the box, either red or blue. Helium-Filled Balloons could also be used in place of wooden or styrofoam components inside the box's halves to give the illusion of a box an extra flair without any danger of balloons popping during the show!

All the hardware required to hang the balloon strings must be added at this point. The easiest way to do this is by taping an aluminum washer to the end of a string that's long enough to reach which will become the bottom box piece. Each piece of box requires a front panel box, box back panel box, as well as four sides panels for the box to provide security.

The cut-out's center should be designed so that the box can easily support the assistant's weight and have enough room for the lovely assistant to be able to comfortably walk inside without having excessive space.

The illusion of a box includes one upper half piece of box which will ultimately turn into the top of the box and a lower half box piece wwhich will ultimately become the box's bottom. Each box piece needs an opening panel box and a back panel box for the box, as well as four sides to provide security.

Magicians should start this box illusion by going through the boxes and ensuring that there are two top and bottom, and four box side panels which have been glued together around their edges to form a box shape. The box's cut-out center should be shaped so that box can easily support the weight of the person performing. It is important these panels have a good fit so that the box's halves do not fall apart while being shown to the audience.

The box is separated in two parts: the upper part and the lower one that will eventually become the top and bottom pieces of the box and vice versa.

A string that is long enough to reach may be secured with washers at the ends of the string balloons.

If the center of the box is not shapely box, then box is not box-like.

A piece of string that is long enough to reach can be attached with metal washers at each end of a box box and an upper half of the box which eventually becomes the top portion of the box as well as the bottom portion of the box and four sides panels to ensure stability. The balloon strings are now able to be secured by attaching metal washers to each end of a string that is long sufficient to extend.

The box's central area must be able to be able to fit snugly over the lady assistant without causing discomfort and be shaped to allow the beautiful assistant to effortlessly exit unaided.

Horace Goldin 's box illusion is a form of magic trick for boxes in which a female assistant is cut into threes and then appears inside a box. The box is initially shown to be empty , and afterward, the person is shoved into the box, with no box appearing to hold her. When she is gone, she pops out of the box in peace. The assistant is cut into thirds again and then pops out of the box two times more to show she's back in the same place after being separated.

Goldin was magician who performed as a stage performer under the name "Professor Magic" and his well-known illusions include Professor Goldin's Three Ball Mystery (1920) and Goldin's Assistant (1922). Goldin published a number of promotional photos for his illusions which depict him performing or posing alongside female assistants. There aren't any official records that indicate the girl he utilized in each version of the trick, and he finally settled on Myrtle Cook as his primary assistant around 1927, although it's difficult to be certain if there were other female assistants involved.

Goldin can make an assistant vanish from a box, like what is assumed in an illusion. The female assistant sits in a box and then makes her head disappear using her extended arm that has been taken off from the elbow, and then painted over for this particular picture. The box appears to is without a back, but in actual fact, there was a back that was there but only a small portion part of the back is seen since the area was left unpainted in order to hide any support rods in the box. It's not clear if she is standing securely above something or perhaps she's unbalanced, stretched out so that she doesn't strike her head against the box's back when making it disappear.

The magician positioned the box on a table or even suspended in the air. It could also be set up close to the wall which does not appear in any photographs of the box that were taken from Goldin's performances, so it's difficult to pinpoint the exact location she was in during the illusion.

Goldin's assistant has her head disappear by using clever tricks concealed within the box. There appears to be no other logical explanation as to why she disappeared. It should be noted that, even though she disappears from view, her hair is visible until she appears at the end of the episode.

Criss Angel has a new version of Goldin's box illusion, which begins with Criss dissolving his head within the box, then reappearing after he's removed it.

The assistant stands inside of a box and her head disappears with her extended arm, which was removed at the elbow and painted over to create this particular image. For the viewer it appears that there is no back. in reality it has one there, but only half of it is visible because the area was left unpainted in order to hide any support rods in the box. It's not clear whether she's standing on top of something, or is she simply off balance, outstretched to avoid hitting her head against the back of the box when she makes it disappear.

Celebrity magician Criss Angel came up with a brand new version of the box illusion in 2010, beginning with Criss making his head disappear inside the box, followed by his appearance after having removed the box. Criss also sits on a box when making the head of an assistant disappear the inside of another.

Other notable magicians who have successfully performed this illusion are David Copperfield, Paul Daniels and Dante.

The box could be used as a way to have a woman's head vanish during performances of Goldin's Three Ball Mystery magic trick which involved a female assistant being split into three horizontal thirds while connecting at each leg. The box allowed the magician to create the effect that the lovely assistant was completely cut into three parts because the body's one side is black from the middle so that it appears like it has been divided in half. If she shows up on the surface, she's healthy at the top but her bottom part appears to have "vanished", although she is standing on a box that has an open front. It isn't necessary to think of the box as an area where her legs could have disappeared to.

Since the famous illusionist Goldin has gone on to different box tricks we will never find out if this box was used for performing other illusions, with a second assistant or even Magicians who he used in his Three Ball Mystery show, but considering how easily the box folds and its fact that it's still being used all these years later, it must be considered an extremely useful tool that lets him perform box tricks without a box at all.