

It will appear that the paper doll has survived the cutting. In this ridiculous prank, Gross manages to terrify every person he encounters on the street, just by strolling around with the top half of his body seemingly cut off from the bottom. Although from the front,Ĭut the envelope and doll in half making sure that you are cutting under the envelope but aboveĪfter you magical cut the paper doll in half, hold the two pieces of the envelope together and pull out the paper doll. The spectators don't know that the middle of the "person" isĪctually underneath the envelope and not going through it.īut we know that the doll is actually under the middle part of the tube. When sliding your doll into the envelope it will simply look like it is entering the envelope on one side and emerging from the other. Millions of BBC viewers were left to wonder whether Sorcar, an exotic-looking man clad in a turban, had just killed a woman on live television. positions 1 and 5 become 4 and 8 and everything else moves up 1. When you move a card from the top to the bottom, it doesn't disrupt that, i.e. While you work the doll into the tube, you'll need to slip the doll back into the tube through the second slit. When you tear the cards in half and put the two sets of halves together, the halves of the same card will be separated by 4, i.e. Slip the end of the doll through the first slit and out of the back of the envelope. Slide the paper doll into the paper tube. If you decide to slide the doll in the envelope in front of your audience practice doing You can put the doll in the envelope ahead of time or in front of your audience. Make sure that the slits are wide enough so the paper doll can slide through them.


This will be the backside of your envelope and the secret of being able to cut your doll in half and restore her back. Make sure the paper can be slide in nicely through the slits you make in an envelope.įlatten the tube and cut two slits into the tube, Just enough to be able to slide your doll through it. Make a paper doll, which can be a simple strip of paper with a person drawn on it. Seal the envelope and cut off a small section of each end of the envelope to form a tube.
