The magician raises his arms up by his sides and slowly appears to rise a few inches (levitate) off the ground for a little while before returning to earth quickly. The trick required no props or actual ability to fly and can be performed in the street or on stage.

The magician raises his arms up by his sides and slowly appears to rise a few inches (levitate) off the ground for a little while before returning to earth quickly. For reasons that will become apparent when you read my book this trick requires less control over the audience to perform that most levitations.

No, we do not show you how to make a couch fly in this trick but this trick will work with any object, big or small or assistance, male or female.

The assistant is brought up to center stage. She is placed in a reclining position on a couch and then covered with a large cloth.

She is commanded to rise. Once she has risen to a height of one foot above the couch, the couch is taken away and the magician walks all around the floating woman.

She continues to rise until she is well over the head of the magician. Then she slowly descends until she is level with the magician's head. Again she begins to rise. This time, the magician takes hold of the cloth and while she is rising, the cloth is whisked away. The woman is gone, vanished right in front of the audience.

A magician sits down in a chair and puts a sheet over himself. Suddenly, he levitates into the air. Shoes, everything comes off of the ground. The audience goes wild.

This trick is the ultimate in Levitation, harder to accomplish that other standing levitations but the effect is very worth while. King Rising is in my opinion nothing less than spectacular. No props are required, no special equipment, no camera tricks no wires or gimmicks of any kind, just practice and a flair for magic presentation.

I have to admit that this levitation is extremely hard to achieve. Props are required and some significant skill. One for the professional magician.

An apparently dead body lies on the stage under a white sheet. A hush falls over the audience and slowly, ever so slowly the sheet is drawn back to reveal the face of the corpse. The corpse remains lying down but rises from the floor, hovers and returns to the floor.

This levitation takes some practice and a little athletic ability but needs no props other than an ordinary white sheet and perhaps some make-up if you wish to really play on the dead-body/Morgue theme.

Warning, this trick can freak people out.

The spectator’s are called into a darkened room, only to witness the magician in a catatonic trance, “come no further,” he shouts and the spectator’s witness him convulse and slowly begin to rise off of the ground – he hovers for what seems like an eternity and then slowly descends.

The magician says he will try a very special jump. Then he suddenly rises as in a jump, but he floats in mid-air long enough to mystify everyone. People can even see under his feet, even on the street, and they will swear they saw you float more than a foot off the floor! .

An improvement of the King Rising Levitation. This is the basic King Rising technique but with more distractions and mis-directions that strengthen the effect.
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This book contains levitations from standing, lying down on the floor, lying on a couch and now, the Flying Indian, levitation from a sitting position.

You tell the audience that you will perform a very old and legendary Indian trick that requires lots of concentration. Next, you sit on the closest chair near to you and place your coat covering and laying on your lap covering your feet up to your knees. You grab the ends of the coat on your lap and begin to rise. You lift a knee in the air then the next knee... .

You're lying down on a couch under a large sheet, head and feet exposed. You start to levitate slowly up from the couch about 4-5 feet. Then you suddenly float off the coach and around the room. No kidding, 4-5 feet and flying about the room! A stunning illusion, simple to perform and amazing to watch.

In this illusion your assistant comes onto the stage and lays down on a table. You cover her with a cloth or sheet, she floats up covered, and then you pull the cloth away with a flourish and she has vanished.

Another variation on the King Rising but made a little easier through the use of a simple prop.
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