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Easy Magic Tricks: Butter Knife Through Napkin

By Wayne Kawamoto, About.com

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Here's a trick that you can do after dinner with just a napkin and a butter knife. You drape a napkin over your hand and a butter knife appears to pass right through the napkin. It's an impromptu effect that requires no gimmicks. You can perform this one with a pencil or pen, but it's traditionally performed with a butter knife.

Here's how it looks to spectators. You show your hand and get ready to drape the napkin over your hand.

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