Two brothers are tied inside a wooden cabinet. The doors close. Bells ring, instruments play and objects move – yet when the cabinet is opened, the brothers are still bound. Spirits, trickery or something in between? Meet the Davenport Brothers, the performers who set Victorian Britain arguing and inadvertently helped launch a new age of stage magic.
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The Great Lafayette – The Magician Who Died Twice
In 1911, the Great Lafayette died in a catastrophic fire at Edinburgh’s Empire Palace Theatre. His body was recovered, identified and cremated. There was just one problem: three days later, they found Lafayette again. The extraordinary true story of a master illusionist, a mistaken corpse, a beloved dog named Beauty and one final macabre disappearing act.
