An American magician, Dariel Fitzkee, once categorized the effects of magic in his book The Trick Brain as follows:
1. Manufacturing (Production)-includes appearing, making, and reproducing (dividing ).
2. Vanishing (Vanish)-The solid will vanish.
3. Transposition - the disappearance of a solid from one place to another.
4. Transformation - a change in quality and form.
5. Penetration - the passage of a solid through another solid without injury.
6. Restoration - the restoration of something that has been completely destroyed.
7Antimation - Makes inanimate objects move on their own.
8Antigravity-Changes its gravity.
9. Attraction - magical attraction, also changes gravity, but only if there is another tangible object to be attracted to. 1
0. Invulnerability (Invulnerability)-Anti-human natural phenomenon.
11.Anti-Natural Object Phenomenon (Physical Anomaly)-Anomalous or deformed human or animal.
12. Spectaor Failure - inviting the audience to come on stage and do the same thing, but with different results.
13.Sympathetic Reaction - Manipulating an object and having another identical object react in the same way.
14.Control - To control inanimate objects by force of will.
15.Identification - Recognizing words or objects with senses other than sight.
16.Thought Reading - Reading what is in the other person's mind.
17.Thought Transmission - conveying what is in one's mind to another person in a non-verbal way.
18. Prediction - predicting what will happen.
19. Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) - commonly known as ESP
Attachment: "Nineteen basic effects of magic"
(1) Production: to appear, to become more (people or objects). (2) Anti-natural physical anomaly (physical anomaly): including people leaving the shadow, headless beauty, head spider, remove the thumb. (3) vanish: to disappear, to make invisible. (4) make the spectator failure (spectator failure): magician with a certain power to make the audience can not do something. (5) Transportation: To disappear from one place and appear from another. (6) control (control): The magician uses internal power (without hands) to control the movements of living or dead creatures, such as ringing a bell, automatically reaching out, and so on. (7) Transformation: to change the size, shape, nature, color, and mark. (8) identification (identification): such as recognizing the spectator's card table (mostly used for cards, but also used for colors, which can be recognized by the magician or the spectator). (9) Penetration: The passage of a hard object through a hard object. (10) Thought reading: The magician knows what the spectator is thinking, and the spectator can write down what he is thinking for comparison. (11) 破還原 (restoration): Part or all of an object's broken limbs away from restoration. (12) Thought reading (他心通)：To enable a person A to know what a person B is thinking. (13) Animation: To make a dead thing move as if it were alive. (14) prediction: To write down the occurrence of something, such as headlines. (15) Anti-gravity (anti-gravity): The action of a person or object against gravity. (16) Sixth sense (extra-sensory perception): such as using the fingers to see things, using the nose to smell the color, using the fingers to feel the card points, and so on. (17) Make change the same, **** sound (sympathetic reaction): two people or two things or more to make the same result. (18) Skill: To make a special effect with the help of real techniques or props. (19) invulnerability (invulnerability): including eating fire, line thatched charcoal, line on the sword, eating glass, eating razor blades, pins and nails to cut the tongue and so on.
According to the school of magic
Chinese magic: characterized by meticulous performance, emphasizing the skills of the hands and body language, props, small, in the past, mostly for the stalls and close-range performances, can be viewed all around, it is not appropriate to look at the bottom, the current development of the stage performances, and the development of large-scale magic tendency. Western magic: the performance is funny and thrilling, magnificent, focusing on the use of props, mostly for stage performances, and the audience has a certain distance, it is not appropriate to look at the back of the performer. At present, it is developing faster and utilizing more and more modern scientific and technological achievements. With the increasingly frequent East-West exchanges, the two have a tendency to integrate with each other.