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WALLACE LEE’S VERSION

No, this is not a vanishing head trick but a trick where the top of the head is used as a hiding place for a vanished coin.

Since the coin must be secretly placed on top of the head the trick is only practical to perform before children whose eye level is lower than the top of the head.

Get a group of small-fry in front of you and show them a coin in your right hand. Tell the children that you will place the coin in your outstretched left hand three times, and on the third time you want one child to grab the coin. Keep your eyes on the left hand as you raise the right hand to the top of your head. Next time you raise the hand find the exact spot on top of your head where you can leave the coin. On the third time place the coin on this spot, bring the hand down and pretend to deposit the coin in the left hand. The child grabs, but the coin is gone.

To get the coin back, hold your hands at your sides and let the palms extend inward behind your back. With a backward movement of the head the coin will fall into the hands behind the back, and can now be produced from behind a child’s ear.

The only difficulty you might experience with this trick is that occasionally you might not catch the coin as it falls from your head. If this happens, feign surprise, look upward and pretend that the coin fell from the ceiling.

As Wallace Lee says: “Aren’t we devils?”