Sawing a woman in half
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Sawing a woman in half is a generic name for a number of different stage magic tricks in which a person (traditionally a female assistant) is apparently sawn or divided into two or more pieces.
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History
There remains a debate about the origin of sawing illusions, with some sources saying a magician named Torrini may have performed the first version in front of Pope Pius VII in 1809.
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See also
- Clearly Impossible, variant on the trick
- Hemicorporectomy, when a person is actually cut in half
- Magician's assistant
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