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'''Zombie''' is one-person floating ball illusion invented by [[Joe Karson]] in which a silver ball floats behind a [[Foulard]]. [[File:ZombieAd.jpg|right|thumb|Ad in Tops (1943)]]
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'''Zombie''' is one-person [[Floating Ball]] illusion invented by [[Joe Karson]] in which a silver ball floats behind a [[Foulard]]. [[File:ZombieAd.jpg|right|thumb|Ad in Tops (1943)]]
  
 
The inspiration came to Karson when he was fooling around with the simple impromptu trick where the magician interlocks the fingers of both hands and a lighted match appears to magically suspend in air behind it. He patented the Zombie in [[1940]].  
 
The inspiration came to Karson when he was fooling around with the simple impromptu trick where the magician interlocks the fingers of both hands and a lighted match appears to magically suspend in air behind it. He patented the Zombie in [[1940]].  
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== History of the Floating Ball routine ==
 
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* A version of the floating ball by [[Harrison Davies]] appeared in the September issue of [[The Sphinx]] in 1905.<ref>The Floating Ball Illusion, House of Mystery-Volume 2 by Teller and Todd Karr</ref>
 
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* [[David P. Abbott]] developed a version based on Davies and taught it to [[Howard Thurston]] and [[Theo Bamberg]] (Okito). Okito passed his routine onto his son, David, who performed as [[Fu Manchu]].
 
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* Karson patents his one man version in 1940.
 
  
 
==Bibliography==
 
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* http://www.themagicdetective.com/2014/07/the-floating-ball-illusion-history.html?spref=fb
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Revision as of 15:55, 26 July 2014

See also: Zombie (magazine).
Zombie is one-person Floating Ball illusion invented by Joe Karson in which a silver ball floats behind a Foulard.
Ad in Tops (1943)

The inspiration came to Karson when he was fooling around with the simple impromptu trick where the magician interlocks the fingers of both hands and a lighted match appears to magically suspend in air behind it. He patented the Zombie in 1940.

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