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Snowstorm in China

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Snowstorm in China (also known as Chinese Snowstorm, Wintertime in China) is an effect in which a sheet of paper is dipped into water, formed into a ball. Then when fanned, it becomes dry and tiny pieces fly up into the air coming down like flakes of snow.
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Being reported in Japanese conjuring books in the 1700s, it was being performed by Yank Hoe in London by 1885.[1].

It was part of Dai Vernon's "Harlequin Act" by 1938 and became a pet trick of [Fred Keating]], Stewart Judah, Abb Dickson , and Peter Samelson.[2]


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  1. Magic Wand, March 1928, pg 43
  2. http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=407061&forum=10