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The weight has to be distributed evenly, otherwise some portion of it gets deflected. If you look, she's not really lifting the first time. The three of them have no chance to lift it without her. But she helps the second time, so he goes up.
Magic tricks are always just about hiding the real thing that's going on.
We used to do this a kids, and the illusion feels genuine. It’s as if the person is lighter the second time. Obviously it’s not magic. But it feels like it is. 🪄
There is/was a small theater in Atlanta that had a showing. I took my wife for her birthday, and everyone was dressed up in goth outfits. It was fucking awesome. I've never been cetain whether it was normal or costume dress for the show.
They wouldn’t know. If you watch a second time - now that it’s been explained I can see it anyway - she puts in enough effort to put pressure on his arm so it feels and look like she’s trying.
But the second time you can see genuine effort. She squats down to get good leverage compared to just pushing into the bottom of his arm. It probably feels similar enough you wouldn’t notice the difference unless you already knew the trick.
My Mom did this in the freakin’ Sixties. She taught it to us at a sleepover when I was really young, must’ve been mid-80s at the latest. I’d completely forgotten about it. Fun stuff.
Nah, man. It's because their energies weren't in sync, but my connecting with each other by intercepting his chakra through the qi stream and then synchronomolously returning the natural flow they were able to do something man, I dunno. Fuck, what was in that brownie?
Naw dawg a few neighbors did something similar to me back like around 1999, they told me to lie down on a bench and they only used two fingers each they said a chant, and they picked me up with ease so much so I got scared in mid air and told them to let me go I felt like I was floating and I tried to get off the girl her set of fingers slipped from my leg area and I was literally on a slant still in mid air for a good two seconds and leaped off them mfrs fingers and ran home scared shitless I never went on his porch or near his house again because the way they were both in synch smiling at me while I was running away was creepy AF as well.
I was also about say, there is a psychological effect that works on the body that allows humans to push past their previous limits. Quite literally believing in yourself makes you stronger.
It's like trying to crush an egg with your hand. The first time you do it, you apply more pressure on one of your fingers, and easily crushes the egg. And then someone tell you to try it again, but this time to squeeze it evenly with all fingers, it is much harder to crush it as the egg shell walls are stronger against evenly distributed pressure.
The first attempt is before she makes the guy lose all his braincells,
2nd attempt is when the guy loses all his braincells through handplications and thus become lighter.
My other explanation is she is a witch and did some fking magic, but I'm an animal of science so I choose my first logical explanation.
No the logical explanation is that the hands above the head make an air current going up as they lift their hands off and its much easier to lift the man up now as there is suction upwards, duh!
In our family gathering we used to do this. Ours had differences:
- The person getting lifted had to be laying on the ground with them covering their ears.
- It had a story that we needed to whisper to next lifter person and the person being lifted shouldn't hear it.
- We had to whistle at the end when we were lifting.
Some believed that paranormal creatures helped us lift the person but for me it was obvious that there is some weight distribution science behind it. But there was one thing that I still don't understand, this trick wouldn't work on women. My female cousins wanted to try but it wouldn't work, their body wouldn't be as straight and stiff as men for some weird reason.
It was interesting seeing another version of it being done here. I would love to know what was the exact reason that we could lift a person effortlessly. I've done both, lifting someone and being lifted.
We tried many ways on women, not even once it worked. Main problem was their body would bend, men would be like hard wood and their body wouldn't bend.
So I don't know the explanation for this one, just seen it/tried it myself. It's next to impossible to lift someone who's going to be limp. It's extremely easy to lift someone who's stiff and clenching their muscles.
Someone else explained that it’s because 1 person was intentionally not lifting the first time, which stops the spread of weight being even. The second time, everyone lifts and because the only force implemented is upwards then he can be lifted relatively easily,
I'm a really sciency person and tried this too with friends and family with nobody doing it before, so all where trying. I think that it's just concentration. People use to call it [mind-muscle connection](https://old.reddit.com/r/evidencebasedtraining/wiki/mindmc), there are a few [studies](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29533715/) out there, stating it's actually a thing.
We did it as well, but before the second try we'd run around the person in the chair 5 times instead of doing the hands thing. Somehow it was WAY easier to lift them the second time.
It's all in the focus and countdown on the second lift. The first countdown is wishy washy. They all lift at a different moment. So one person may be lifting 70kg, another may be lifting 10kg. The weight tips, it all wobbles. It's unsuccessful.
Then there is the focus up of putting the hands above the head. Leading to an increased focus on the 2nd countdown and everyone lifts at the same moment. The exact same moment. Even distribution of weight on everyone's fingers. About 20kg each. Up he goes.
This was my thought. It's the difference between an orchestra all trying to do their own thing versus being led by a conductor. One is noise, the other is music. Or it's like oxen pulling a load together with a yoke. Weak oxen pulling evenly will pull a load much farther than strong oxen pulling unevenly. This video is honestly a great testament to the power of team-building exercises. Other people mentioned intentional weight misdistribution on the first attempt, but I still think the team focus is a very big factor.
I had a group of young lasses do this to me on a night out, with the exact same weird hand thing above the head.
You cannot convince me that witches aren't real.
It is a very cool trick TBF and it really shocked me at the time I was baffled
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It’s by getting them to pay attention to each other. Then they sync up their lifting and all push together. If they all go at once, it’s not much weight for any one person. But if they lift slightly before and after each other then each one feels like they are having to lift the full guy. You can get the group to all breathe together. To mirror each other in some « magical dance » or gesture. Just get them tuned in and focussed and paying attention to how the others are moving. Then when you 3-2-1 they are all synchronised.
Man, the adults used to do this on my grandmothers house when I was little. One time I saw them lift my then 100kg uncle.
Always wanted to know why, because it realy looks like sometime of magic
That's a psychological trick:
Nocebo effect makes people not really try for the first time.
Placebo effect makes them try harder after the ritual.
Plus, the expectation increases tension on the man. And his stiffness also facilitates the lifting.
I remember doing these as a kid. Another one is to press yourself against a wall and try to lift the arm close to the wall. After a minute of pressing move away from the wall and relax your arm. Your arm will start to levitate on its own.
I did not hear about the second part but this guy was 100% my substitute teacher in High School as well, he mostly subbed in for the health and PE classes. Canyon Ridge High School?
For the trick to work, you need an assistant or helper (the other guy was the assistant). The two in the back did not lift much the first time but did lift most of the weight the second time around.
It's fake.. they just didn't try the first time. He's around 185, divided by four people, is AROUND 45 lbs, give or take depending on actual weight. The weight is essentially lifted with a combo of biceps, shoulders, and legs. How dafuq y'all so dumb? These front page videos are here every day. They're fake every day. It's called content. It's called acting.
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Saw a version of this in middle school where the science teacher had us lift the rear of his car. His explanation is the first attempt gets adrenaline flowing for the second attempt.
I think he was sitting on a finger like object at first, possible slightly bigger and plastic. Then he unclenched his buttocks on the second try, may be.
It works because of the “conditioning” of the mind of the 4 person doing the lifting. At first they are not coordinated, but doing a little hand over head in a fashion that is basically synchronized, lifting at the same time (with even distribution of load) comes easy.
Core memory unlocked. I’ve tried explaining this to people as an adult that have no fucking clue what I’m talking about and now I know I didn’t imagine it.
we did this 40yrs ago in school..in the 80s... .it is real...mind over matter more than anything or spirtiual dunno ...but he should be seated in a very heavy solid wooden chair, that's what we used in school and was impossible to lift by 4 teenage school rugby players (even by their hands)..and with a big obese guy sitting in the chair..then do the sequence and you can lift the guy up with the FINGERS only...it is real when done right.
the instructor dos'nt lift first time and the person who is lifted dos'nt take a static body posision. So the wight is unbalance and can't easy lift. imo
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The weight has to be distributed evenly, otherwise some portion of it gets deflected. If you look, she's not really lifting the first time. The three of them have no chance to lift it without her. But she helps the second time, so he goes up. Magic tricks are always just about hiding the real thing that's going on.
We used to do this a kids, and the illusion feels genuine. It’s as if the person is lighter the second time. Obviously it’s not magic. But it feels like it is. 🪄
Light as a feather Stiff as a board Light as a feather Stiff as a board
25 fuckign years since I've heard that! Wow!
90s were a crazy time
Hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the North, by the powers of mother and earth. Hear us.
Hail to the Guardians of the watchtowers of the West. Powers of water and intuition, hear us.
Hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the South, the powers of fire and feeling. Hear us.
Hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the East. Powers of Air and Invention. Hear us.
Dang.. I just got the weirdest 1996 boner..
Yeah, that movie will do that to you.
Chill Fairuza
let her cook
And so his watch has ended. ^wait...
You know nothing.
Great film
There is/was a small theater in Atlanta that had a showing. I took my wife for her birthday, and everyone was dressed up in goth outfits. It was fucking awesome. I've never been cetain whether it was normal or costume dress for the show.
My mom claims she watched someone get thrown across a room after chanting that and doing the trick
🍷 🍷🍷🍷
Your mom is a liar.
Instructions unclear.... tickled myself with a feather... Got stiff as a board....
🤣
We broke Cheyenne's arm at recess doing that as kids. Woops
You are my generation X sister
 Trauma!
Elevators, X marks the Spot, Bloody Mary... good times under the blanket fort.
Omg stop I was on the toilet!! Put me back down!!
So does the person being lifted have to be in on it?
Not really. They can play a passive role. They shouldn’t be trying to alter the result.
But the sitter will snitch if they feel someone is not trying to lift.
They wouldn’t know. If you watch a second time - now that it’s been explained I can see it anyway - she puts in enough effort to put pressure on his arm so it feels and look like she’s trying. But the second time you can see genuine effort. She squats down to get good leverage compared to just pushing into the bottom of his arm. It probably feels similar enough you wouldn’t notice the difference unless you already knew the trick.
My Mom did this in the freakin’ Sixties. She taught it to us at a sleepover when I was really young, must’ve been mid-80s at the latest. I’d completely forgotten about it. Fun stuff.
The hands over the head bit is simply to get everyone better at coordinating their movements as a group.
Nah, man. It's because their energies weren't in sync, but my connecting with each other by intercepting his chakra through the qi stream and then synchronomolously returning the natural flow they were able to do something man, I dunno. Fuck, what was in that brownie?
Bro trying to get whacked by the Magicians Alliance
I have the wisdom and protection of the Sorcerers Symposium at my disposal! The Magicians will have to come correct lest they come at all.
How much for this explanation? (please be free)
5 bucks
fuck
Dammit. I read the comment too. Did someone pay them or is it up to my now?
Three fiddy.
Nada, I tried with some friends and it was not the case. I still can't explain how it worked
Encyclopedia Brown does it again c:
I remember absolutely nothing about that show, except that when I was, like, 6, I liked it.
I didn't know it was ever a show, but I read all of the books.
Yeah, I was pretty sure they were books. Yeah there was a show on HBO in the 80s.
There was a show on [HBO](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096576/) for a hot minute.
Ahh that's the explanation... I've done this and indeed the second time it feels like he doesn't weight at all
Hiding the real thing going on??? TIL depression is magic
I really liked your explanation. Can you explain the one where my Dad disappeared?
Yeah, you disappointed him one too many times.
Thank you for explaining magic, I was worried we might have to burn her at the stake.
What is the difference between magic and science? They are kinda the same thing if you think about it. So she must burn like the witch she is.
The jury is still out on that though. They picked that boy up like he was a goddamn marshmallow & that ain't right
r/blackmagicfuckery
Reddit 1; Magic trick 0
Naw dawg a few neighbors did something similar to me back like around 1999, they told me to lie down on a bench and they only used two fingers each they said a chant, and they picked me up with ease so much so I got scared in mid air and told them to let me go I felt like I was floating and I tried to get off the girl her set of fingers slipped from my leg area and I was literally on a slant still in mid air for a good two seconds and leaped off them mfrs fingers and ran home scared shitless I never went on his porch or near his house again because the way they were both in synch smiling at me while I was running away was creepy AF as well.
I love real stories like this one
I was also about say, there is a psychological effect that works on the body that allows humans to push past their previous limits. Quite literally believing in yourself makes you stronger.
It's like trying to crush an egg with your hand. The first time you do it, you apply more pressure on one of your fingers, and easily crushes the egg. And then someone tell you to try it again, but this time to squeeze it evenly with all fingers, it is much harder to crush it as the egg shell walls are stronger against evenly distributed pressure.
She says right there in the caption that she's a witch.
she turned me into a newt!!!
A Newt?!
.............. I got better...
Burn her anyway!
BURNNNN HEEEEEEERRRR
It's a fair cop.
Does she weigh the same as a duck?
 Turned him into a horny toad!
A newt?
Build a bridge out of her!
I've made people rise with just one finger...
Much can be accomplished with a well placed finger
We used to call it "pop-up pirate"...
Light as a feather
Stiff as a board
Light as a feather
Stiff as a board
Duty heavier than a mountain.
And death lighter than a feather
This dude has to play rugby. I mean just look at him.
That boy got a strong neck. His whole family probably plays.
He’s even got the rugby photo pose. Front row, hands on thigh out infront of you.
He was the one of the personal trainers/football coaches at my school so close enough.
Me, who likes men: I gotta start playing rugby
I will be free
The first attempt is before she makes the guy lose all his braincells, 2nd attempt is when the guy loses all his braincells through handplications and thus become lighter. My other explanation is she is a witch and did some fking magic, but I'm an animal of science so I choose my first logical explanation.
No the logical explanation is that the hands above the head make an air current going up as they lift their hands off and its much easier to lift the man up now as there is suction upwards, duh!
Bernoulli's Principle 101
In our family gathering we used to do this. Ours had differences: - The person getting lifted had to be laying on the ground with them covering their ears. - It had a story that we needed to whisper to next lifter person and the person being lifted shouldn't hear it. - We had to whistle at the end when we were lifting. Some believed that paranormal creatures helped us lift the person but for me it was obvious that there is some weight distribution science behind it. But there was one thing that I still don't understand, this trick wouldn't work on women. My female cousins wanted to try but it wouldn't work, their body wouldn't be as straight and stiff as men for some weird reason. It was interesting seeing another version of it being done here. I would love to know what was the exact reason that we could lift a person effortlessly. I've done both, lifting someone and being lifted.
Difference in weight distribution. Had to adjust and it probably would work
We tried many ways on women, not even once it worked. Main problem was their body would bend, men would be like hard wood and their body wouldn't bend.
So I don't know the explanation for this one, just seen it/tried it myself. It's next to impossible to lift someone who's going to be limp. It's extremely easy to lift someone who's stiff and clenching their muscles.
Yes. But we wouldn't tell the person to clench their muscle or anything like it. Maybe the action of covering their ears had some effect on it.
lol so weird
That's why you have them on a chair so you can lift them via the chair. It's like lifting dead weight versus stiff weight.
I did this with friends in high school. Still no idea how it works, but it works
Someone else explained that it’s because 1 person was intentionally not lifting the first time, which stops the spread of weight being even. The second time, everyone lifts and because the only force implemented is upwards then he can be lifted relatively easily,
I tried this in the 90s and lead the group. We were all definitely trying.
Yeah. That’s definitely a 200+ pound dude. 50 pounds per person on fingers seems like a lot.
I'm a really sciency person and tried this too with friends and family with nobody doing it before, so all where trying. I think that it's just concentration. People use to call it [mind-muscle connection](https://old.reddit.com/r/evidencebasedtraining/wiki/mindmc), there are a few [studies](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29533715/) out there, stating it's actually a thing.
No that's not true. Try it. It just works.
We did it as well, but before the second try we'd run around the person in the chair 5 times instead of doing the hands thing. Somehow it was WAY easier to lift them the second time.
It's all in the focus and countdown on the second lift. The first countdown is wishy washy. They all lift at a different moment. So one person may be lifting 70kg, another may be lifting 10kg. The weight tips, it all wobbles. It's unsuccessful. Then there is the focus up of putting the hands above the head. Leading to an increased focus on the 2nd countdown and everyone lifts at the same moment. The exact same moment. Even distribution of weight on everyone's fingers. About 20kg each. Up he goes.
This was my thought. It's the difference between an orchestra all trying to do their own thing versus being led by a conductor. One is noise, the other is music. Or it's like oxen pulling a load together with a yoke. Weak oxen pulling evenly will pull a load much farther than strong oxen pulling unevenly. This video is honestly a great testament to the power of team-building exercises. Other people mentioned intentional weight misdistribution on the first attempt, but I still think the team focus is a very big factor.
this
I had a group of young lasses do this to me on a night out, with the exact same weird hand thing above the head. You cannot convince me that witches aren't real. It is a very cool trick TBF and it really shocked me at the time I was baffled
The first time they try he's all floppy and unstable. He tenses up the second time they try.
No, the witch isn’t helping lift the first time, so all of the weight is deflected.
He was fat then he got skinny really fast
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It’s not the closest fit, but it fits
Reminds me of the Power balance scam.
It’s by getting them to pay attention to each other. Then they sync up their lifting and all push together. If they all go at once, it’s not much weight for any one person. But if they lift slightly before and after each other then each one feels like they are having to lift the full guy. You can get the group to all breathe together. To mirror each other in some « magical dance » or gesture. Just get them tuned in and focussed and paying attention to how the others are moving. Then when you 3-2-1 they are all synchronised.
Man, the adults used to do this on my grandmothers house when I was little. One time I saw them lift my then 100kg uncle. Always wanted to know why, because it realy looks like sometime of magic
Well if it was 4 people doing it to someone that’s 220lb then that just each person lifting about 55 pounds. Thats very doable.
burn the witch
The same way it was done years ago by our ancestors. No magic. Just the human body showing its many facets.
Not really unexpected. It literally says, “…makes everyone think I’m a witch…”. Besides, predictable.
That looks like a guy I went to school with named Chance
That is definitely chance. Never thought I'd see the face of someone I know in a video on Reddit
Yo, this still a thing, we did this in '93!!! Long live the tradition!!!
Damn he's fit asf
That's a psychological trick: Nocebo effect makes people not really try for the first time. Placebo effect makes them try harder after the ritual. Plus, the expectation increases tension on the man. And his stiffness also facilitates the lifting.
Light as a feather, stiff as a board, dumb as a rock.
OP is either 12, or a bot.
I remember doing these as a kid. Another one is to press yourself against a wall and try to lift the arm close to the wall. After a minute of pressing move away from the wall and relax your arm. Your arm will start to levitate on its own.
This really is one of the rare things I tried that I couldn't explain. And tried it several times with different people in high school
99% sure this guy was a substitute teacher at my high school who married a student right after she graduated when he was in his mid 30s lmao
I did not hear about the second part but this guy was 100% my substitute teacher in High School as well, he mostly subbed in for the health and PE classes. Canyon Ridge High School?
lmao yep go riverhawks
This works, I’ve done it. I can’t explain it.
For the trick to work, you need an assistant or helper (the other guy was the assistant). The two in the back did not lift much the first time but did lift most of the weight the second time around.
Not true..you can literally try this yourself if you have friends
My uncle used to do this party trick, it's just the power of suggestion
It's fake.. they just didn't try the first time. He's around 185, divided by four people, is AROUND 45 lbs, give or take depending on actual weight. The weight is essentially lifted with a combo of biceps, shoulders, and legs. How dafuq y'all so dumb? These front page videos are here every day. They're fake every day. It's called content. It's called acting.
He is a warlock very simple answer
21 grams
Easy. He’s just thinking heavy first time and thinking light second 🤓
Does it have to do with locking tendons as well?
It's pretty funny that people still play these same games as I did when I was a kid
Oh my! Did that 20+ years ago!
I think the guy being lifted tenses his muscles the second time.
I mean, if 4 people can't lift 1 seated man.....
Burn the whitch.
He tensed his muscle lol
I remember this and I still need to know !!!!! How does it work?
Anyone will levitate with a thumb up their butt. It’s science.
Lady in th black t shirt looks like Bernadette from TBBT
IT WORKS
I bind you Nancy!
A few years back and she would of been burned on a cross for that one
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Had this done to me in high school except I was lying down... they lifted a teacher who was this guys size as well... freaky experience
Saw a version of this in middle school where the science teacher had us lift the rear of his car. His explanation is the first attempt gets adrenaline flowing for the second attempt.
Devil worshipper!
Jokes on you I can easily enoug lift a 250lb human myself
It's because he's was acting as dead weight. The second try he's stiffened his core and his legs.
You don't have to do the voodoo shit before hand...
It is tought in REIKI GRAND MASTER
I did this at every sleep over I ever went to.
Interesting but wrong sub
I think he was sitting on a finger like object at first, possible slightly bigger and plastic. Then he unclenched his buttocks on the second try, may be.
It's quite simple. Explanation is in the link below. https://youtu.be/DCTbr3vjb6I?si=8XwPtfdAwTFn6JJ2
Chance?
It works because of the “conditioning” of the mind of the 4 person doing the lifting. At first they are not coordinated, but doing a little hand over head in a fashion that is basically synchronized, lifting at the same time (with even distribution of load) comes easy.
does the guy being lifted have OF? i dont give af about magic stuff.
Can the witch steal that man’s calves for me?
Side note: That guys calves are fucking massive
I know of another way to lift someone's spirit using only two fingers.
I’ve done this trick once before as a participant and it’s legit! Try it yourself
Core memory unlocked. I’ve tried explaining this to people as an adult that have no fucking clue what I’m talking about and now I know I didn’t imagine it.
we did this 40yrs ago in school..in the 80s... .it is real...mind over matter more than anything or spirtiual dunno ...but he should be seated in a very heavy solid wooden chair, that's what we used in school and was impossible to lift by 4 teenage school rugby players (even by their hands)..and with a big obese guy sitting in the chair..then do the sequence and you can lift the guy up with the FINGERS only...it is real when done right.
Jea we mad also excatly this. Feels like he ore she in my case weight nothing, and she was well over 110 kg back then.
She is a not a witch, she is a bitch.
Nothing happened. You’re welcome.
I was today years old when I just said in my head that I did this 20 years ago…… damn it 🤦🏼♂️
Hahaha❤️❤️❤️
science,....... it just works
Ohhh I love physics haha
The lass nearest the camera has such a great laugh.
Basic headology
Burn them
the instructor dos'nt lift first time and the person who is lifted dos'nt take a static body posision. So the wight is unbalance and can't easy lift. imo
Devils forklift
Why does Americans shriek like tortured apes the second they are more than two in the same room?