The Secret Trick

The Ancient Egyptians

Today there are many famous magicians who dazzle and amaze the world. For example Shin Lim a cardist magician amazed the world as well as fooled two of the best magicians in the world Penn and Teller. David Blaine literally made having a frog in your throat a real thing and puked out a live frog in front of millions on TV. These tricks dazzled the world and caused a huge spike in interest for magic. But in ancient times magicians were considered almost godlike. The first ever magician to be recorded was in 2700B.C and his name was Dedi. But there is no actual archaeological or historic proof that he ever existed in the first place. Dedi appears in the fourth story of a fictional book called the Westcar Papyrus. But despite people arguing whether  Dedi was real or not some of the tricks he does are very real. For example the ball and cup trick was performed to the king Khufu as well as decapitating several animals and making them "come back to life". Both tricks are entirely possible today and the King Khufu being superstitious immediately let Dedi live in his palace alongside his sons. Dedi was apparently 110 years old and could also predict the future, he only lived to 110 years old by living off 500 loaves of bread, a shoulder of beef and 100 cups of beer. So take this story with a pinch of salt. When I first heard this story I was extremely sceptical of the evidence of the story. The drawings in the tomb of Baqet the 3rd showed a very faded picture of a magician performing the classic ball and cup trick. But one thing is certain. The ancient Egyptians were a very superstitious people who valued their priests who could apparently talk to mystical gods and perform amazing feats of magic. These priests were highly influential and advised the powerful pharaoh's on important matters as well as living a life of power and wealth. But this is only one example of magicians and those who claimed they had magical powers being almost worshipped. There are many other examples of these mysterious figures being praised and put on a pedestal. This is only one example. There are many more amazing stories like this out there. Interested?

Dedi

Ball and cup trick.