Many people especially like magic shows, because magicians can bring us a perfect visual feast through superb performances, but magic also has great dangers, especially some escape magic, a slight difference in the pool will cause injury or death, in history has really happened, due to the magician's bad mistakes, the result lost precious lives, so for us ordinary people, some dangerous magic must not be blindly imitated, this must be remembered, So let's talk about it: 6 magicians who lost their precious lives due to their own accidental mistakes!
1, Cheng Liansu
Although this magician seems to be Chinese from the name, in fact he is an American, the reason why he gave himself a Chinese name is because he loves Chinese folk tricks, it is understood that the famous domestic magician Zhu Liankui, in 1898 in the American circus performed traditional Chinese folk tricks, was liked by the locals.
It also attracted the imitation of many foreign magicians, including William Robinson, who admired Zhu Liankui so much that he gave himself a Chinese named Cheng Liansu, wearing a robe and horse coat, shaving his head and wearing pigtails, trying to study Chinese folk tricks, and later in 1900, he began to perform in Europe.
Cheng Liansu has always claimed to be a Chinese, does not speak English, basically does not speak when performing, and is very careful to maintain the illusion that he is a Chinese, because he is very talented, so he quickly gained the favor of the audience, and he was also famous in Europe at that time, but on March 23, 1918, when Cheng Liansu performed tricks in the Green Forest Empire in London.
Due to his own mistakes, the wear and tear of the prop gun led to some gunpowder detonated in the real gun chamber, and the bullets installed inside were fired, and the bullet hit Cheng Liansu's chest, although after timely rescue, he was still too badly injured and unfortunately died at the age of 57, and after his death, people learned the real identity, it turned out that Cheng Liansu was a native American.
2, Mrs. Delinsky
The Delinskis were famous Polish magic duos who toured Europe in the early 19th century, and one of the most famous magic shows was when Mrs. Delinski left unscathed after "catching" all the bullets in front of a group of soldiers, and the couple was very popular in Europe at the time.
However, as the old saying goes, "Always walk by the river where there are not wet shoes", in 1820, when Madame Delinsky, who was pregnant, was performing a magic show for the royal family in Germany, a soldier who was recruited to participate in the performance was nervous on the stage, accidentally loaded a real bullet, and did not use a prop fake bullet, resulting in the real bullet shooting through Mrs. Delinsky's abdomen.
The death announced two days later, in fact, caused this tragedy entirely due to Madame Delinsky's own mistake, because she did not carefully examine the bullet situation before performing the magic trick, and finally lost her precious life.
3. Gilbert Genesta
The American Gilbert Genesta, because he admired Houdini very much, was also very keen on escape magic shows, and in 1908, he first performed officially, which was liked by the audience, and in 1930, Gilbert Genesta tried to perform the magic of escaping from the closed milk can.
It is understood that Gilbert Genesta locked himself in a jar filled with milk, the jar has a secret escape door, although there is a lock, but can still open the escape, but what he does not know is that the jar in the process of transportation, damaged, resulting in the escape door has dents, can not be used normally, but Gilbert Genesta due to his own negligence, did not check, directly performed, the result of the magician trapped inside, alive was drowned.
4. Vivian Hensley
There are some ordinary people in the world who have lost their lives because they love magic, and the Australian Vivian Hensley is such a typical case, he is not a professional magician, he is a dentist, but he is very fond of magic performances, especially like the dangerous magic of swallowing blades.
In 1938, Vivian Hensley performed this magic trick in front of his wife and son, originally according to his idea, pretending to drop the blade from his throat and secretly hiding it in his sleeve, but because he accidentally slipped during the performance, he actually swallowed the knife, and despite being rushed to the hospital, Vivian Hensley still did not recover from the incident, and after four days, the treatment was ineffective and died!
5. Jeff Rayburn Hooper
Jeff Rayburn Hooper, a 23-year-old magician in the United States, practiced an escape technique, so on the evening of July 7, 1984, at the Bible conference at Lake Winona, Hooper handcuffed himself, then jumped into the lake, and then by breaking free of the handcuffs in the water, he finally swam back to the shore to receive applause from everyone.
It was expected to be good, but in the process of this escape magic, there was still an accident, because the weather was very bad on the day of the performance he chose, the wind was very strong, and he was exhausted from breaking free of the handcuffs in the water, so Hooper could not swim to the shore at all, although he tried to call for help, but no one on the shore heard, plus the sight was not good at night, so by the time everyone found Hooper, he had already drowned for a long time.
6. Barrabrega
The Swedish magician Barábrega, who was extremely popular in the 19th century magic world, once performed magic with Harry Houdini, famous for his ability to perform large-scale stage magic tricks, and in 1900, in Brazil, his signature magic show was performed, which used six female assistants as "moths" to lure them into candlelights and eventually disappeared.
However, to perform this magic, it takes a lot of natural gas to succeed, and it is impossible to find these things in South America, Barrabrega can only use wind gas instead, and as a result, when preparing for the performance, one of the bags filled with wind gas explodes, which kills Barabrega and one of his assistants on the spot, and the magic can only end in failure!