Find out how David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear or how David Blaine levitated off the sidewalk; learn about the tricks and techniques of the great magicians of our time. This is your opportunity to learn how those tricks have been accomplished; an interesting topic to talk about while travelling, for example.

Magic is something that forms part of every culture and civilisation: the great monument at Stonehenge was built, among other things, to impress the local villagers. The way in which we now know how it worked served to show that the priests had power over celestial bodies like the sun and the moon, which were considered deities at the time in Europe.

In Ancient Greece, magic was one of the items that caused or induced the creation of theatre as an art and entertainment form, and magic shows had been on prominent public display ever since. If we dig in our history and archaeology already-gathered information, we will soon find out how extended magic really is.

For the mentality of a Westerner born in the last three centuries, magic is deception, but it was not like that always; what happens is that in Western or Christian countries, rational thinking superseded the Middle Ages way of seeing things, and as a reaction, this new perspective evolved as a purely logic and rationally system of thought that in its superlative form becomes the scientific method.

For a westerner, magic is something proper of a children's birthday party, a circus or the theatre, but for most people around the world, magic is a very real power: In Haiti, Vodoo priests keep control over people's minds and actions by means of fear, and something similar happened in the case of the Mau-Mau in Africa until not so long ago.

So you may not believe in the idea, but you have to believe in its power: magic can be used to amaze, entertain, control and even to produce money for you. Isn't that magical, after all?

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