Biting a coin in half: Anatomy of Illusion
This trick is very simple to perform. You just have to get a dummy coin that looks exactly like the actual one. The only difference is that it will break after you apply some pressure. Also, the most crucial part of this trick is to swap the real coin that you have obtained from the audience and with your fake one. Since all the street magicians are very skillful in this type of hand tricks you will never know when they have done it.
Interesting Magic Fact: Despite the considerations of connections of magicians with the devil for hundreds of years, I doubt that’s credible. All the tricks performed by them are based on delusion. Nevertheless, various magicians focused on an advertisement, which was later discovered to be fake practice.