Support systems can be hidden under clothes or boards and molded in an S-shape to make them less visible. In other cases, magicians use wires or beams for levitation tricks. Suggestion, anticipation, clever acting, and misdirection then help the viewers interpret what they see as the magician floating in the air. Magicians who seem to levitate a few inches from the pavement might do so by lifting themselves on one toe, while the observers stand at an angle where they can’t see the illusionist’s far foot. Low-grade levitations are almost always grounded in clever body angles. Instead, He performed acts of great import that were impossible to fake: He raised men from the dead (John 11:17, 44), gave sight to those who were born blind (John 9:1–7), and cured incurable diseases (Luke 5:12–13). Nor was He floating an inch off the ground to impress people or draw a crowd. Jesus was not drawing playing cards or restoring a cut rope. Despite common claims of skeptics, the miracles described in the Bible are not the sort one could pull off with trickery and sleight-of-hand. The requirement in stage magic that viewers willingly suspend their disbelief places magic tricks in a completely different category from biblical miracles. In that story, a character develops a device seemingly capable of the impossible and is told by his producer to modify his trick, purely to allow the audience some way to doubt it is “true magick.” This is mentioned in the magic-focused film The Prestige. What magicians do in front of skeptical eyes is never grand enough to suggest that the event is truly miraculous. Effects produced by illusionists are small enough in scale that an observer has every reason to believe they are just tricks. The core attraction of stage magic is the audience’s assumption that what they see is staged, but they can’t figure out how. Cameras, modern lighting, steel cables, and computer-controlled devices have enabled more elaborate deceptions. Modern technology goes a long way to aiding the success of magic tricks.
It’s also common for magic shows to use a plant-an assistant pretending to be an audience member-to help sell the illusion. Also, illusionists may use wires, hidden support beams, specialized lighting, or body angles to obscure what is happening. As in all magic tricks, misdirection and confusion are crucial to the illusion of levitation. The vast majority of a magician’s levitation tricks rely on variations of a few themes. Some, after witnessing instances of apparent levitation, are convinced the magicians/illusionists are somehow supernaturally/demonically empowered.
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