As if that were not enough , in the 1930s , the French manufacturer Dickmann- Minalono ( Nicholas-Joseph Minalono , 1870-1947 ) made available to amateur and professional magicians through his catalog , a selection of great illusions reproducing the various tortures . In the catalog : The bed of Chinese tortures , the mystery of the cleavers , The posts of fear , the press of death , The Hindu mystery , the ball woman , the pierced woman , the woman cut into pieces , The woman who loses her head …

Those stage illusions can also be found in the catalogs of his English and American colleagues , Lewis Davenport and Louis Tannen .

BRITISH CIRCUS Music Hall Imperator - cremation ( around 1915 )

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