Book excerpt: A collection of over 35 stunts, plans, magic, and illusions from Abbotts Magic that have been used in Carnivals and Side Shows including Bed of Nails, Blade Box By MUM (Pretzel Girl), Blockhead Act, Buried Alive Stunt, Burned Alive, Crucifixion, Cyclops, Electric Chair (Miss Electra), Eye Poking, Fire Eating, Fist Drive A Spike Into Wood, Glass Eating (Chewing), Girl in Fishbowl, Girl To Gorilla Evolution, Girl to Gorilla Today, Head On Sword, Headless Woman, Hand In Trap, Human Pin Cushion, Hot Coal Walking, Hypnotizing A Rabbit, Knife Through Thumb, Living Half Lady, Living Head, Missing Body Illusion, Painless Surgery by Abbott's Magic, Palmistry - Your Lucks In Your Hand, Razor Blade Trick (Safety First), Resista, Swallowing Needles Routine, Seeing Through A Girl, Shrunken Living Head, Spider Girl - Spidora, Spikes Through Wrist, Sword Swallowing, Totem Pole or Slick Post