However, the re-creations did not involve overt escape, merely a replication of tricks with the statement that they were accomplished by secret magicians' skills rather than spirits. Other illusionists, including John Nevil Maskelyne, worked out how the Davenports did their act and re-created the tricks to debunk the brothers' claims of psychic power. In the 1860s, the Davenport Brothers, who were skilled at releasing themselves from rope ties, used the art to convey the impression they were restrained while they created spirit phenomena. It was not originally displayed as an overt act in itself but was instead used secretly to create illusions such as a disappearance or transmutation. The art of escaping from restraints and confined spaces has been a skill employed by performers for a very long time. Escapologists (also classified as escape artists) escape from handcuffs, straitjackets, cages, coffins, steel boxes, barrels, bags, burning buildings, fish-tanks, and other perils, often in combination. Harry Houdini before one of his escapology performance in Boston 1908Įscapology is the practice of escaping from restraints or other traps.
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