Fascinating Stories

How a magician makes the male sex organ to vanish?

Whenever I conduct a program on explaining the scientific basis of miracles, invariably some young people corner me to know in confidence as to how magicians make the male sex organ of a man to vanish. I tell them this is just not possible--they only make a monkey of you! Invariably, again, one of them would vouch for having been a victim of this magic himself. It then becomes incumbent upon me to explain--to save my honor and prestige as a scientist. And I do this explanation right in front of the whole gathering--of course, without identifying the questioners. So, here it goes:

To collect a huge gathering the magician brags about the power of his magic, even claiming to convert a boy into a girl (but never the other way round, as the girl may happily walk away as a ‘boy!’). He goes on bragging like this every now and then throughout the show. As the crowd increases, he goes on increasing the circle of the audience, using a stick, to accommodate more and more people. Increasing the circle also keeps the people farther away from the center, where he would perform the final act.

At the end of the show, when the time comes to redeem his promise, he would select a gullible person from the crowd. This is not difficult for him for this is what he has been doing all his life. (An inexperienced magician may even go for an accomplice).

He makes the gentleman stand in the center of the ring. While doing the incantations, all around him, the magician approaches the person and quietly whispers into his ears: "Sir, I am a very poor man. My wife has not lighted the stove for three days. My children are hungry. You would not lose anything if you just say ‘Yes!’ to every question I ask. And, I bind you in the name of God (Bhagwan Ram-ki-Saugandh!) to never ever reveal this contract between us to anyone!"

This done, he immediately casts the magical spell "Shooo..." and asks the man "Sir, in the name of God, please tell the audience if your organ has vanished or not?" The man says, "Yes!" He repeats the same question again, "Sir, many in the audience have not heard you properly, please tell them again whether your organ has disappeared or not?" The man once again replies, "Yes!"

The magician immediately spreads his begging sheets, asks the people to loosen their purse strings, and puts all kinds of restrictions on the audience (e.g. ‘not to cross the Laxman Rekha that I have drawn’; ‘not to move away without paying up sufficient alms, to save the manly-hood of this gentleman!’ etc). He even demands a particular amount in alms to restore the gentleman’s organs, and binds every one to not even dare to move away until this is done, and so on. He would repeatedly count the offerings and cajole the people to pay up a particular sum (say, Rs 500/-). Even people start nudging each other to pay more so that they may be able to move on to their errands.

After sufficient money has been collected and after the people have sufficiently begged him to let them go, he relents and once again casts the magical spell "Shooo..." and asks the gentleman to tell the crowd in the name of God whether his organ has been restored or not. The gentleman says, "Yes!" The magician immediately closes the show!

This perhaps is the right time for our friend to corner the gentleman to find out if his organ had "really" vanished? The gentleman being under oath once replies, "Yes!"

The gentleman who had earlier claimed to be a victim of this magic then quietly slinks away!

-- Badiuddin Khan

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