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Magic Circle: Meet the Tayside and Fife magicians who still have a few tricks up their sleeve
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As magicians celebrate the 100th anniversary of the famous ‘sawing people in half’ trick,
Michael Alexander discovers that magic is alive and well in Tayside and Fife with a few tricks left up its sleeve yet.
One hundred years ago last month, English magician
Percy Thomas Tibbles literally and laboriously “sawed” through a sealed wooden box that contained a woman.
It was a sensation that has since become one of the world’s best known illusions, performed with all manner of tools and varying degrees of “blood”. ....

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