Magic Card Tricks

Magic, in its generic term, is the art of entertaining an audience by performing illusions that confuse, baffle and amaze onlookers. This often gives the impression that something impossible has happened and that the performer has magic or supernatural powers. However, it is important to remember that this illusion of magic is created entirely by natural means.

A practitioner of this mystery art is known as a magician or illusionist. Artists in other media such as theatre, cinema, dance and the visual arts increasingly work using similar means but regard their magical techniques as of secondary importance to the goal of creating a complex cultural performance.