The Transformation

I was watching a magician's show that felt much more than just a show for fun.  There on the elevated stage the action took place.   Colorful spotlights overhead gave an exotic presence to the illusions being presented there.  The present illusion started out with a metal table that was starting a foot or so above the stage floor and slanted upward at a regular and relatively steep angle. At the base of the table was a baby, alive or not I cannot say, little movement left this fact in doubt. A small distance above the baby on the inclined table was a bigger human form of a man.  As the tension mounted in the audience the maneuver began.

The baby began a bumpy ride up and under the man. When the young one got to the other end of the table we could see activity that seemed to signal the completion of the trip and the trickery.  I, and evidently many others in the audience, felt like it was not as great a feat as one would have expected.  About the time that the stir of the restless audience was raising pitch our attention was again lifted to the stage where the baby then moved up the ramp further and on through a large hoop that was now at the end of the table.  As the baby went through the hoop it was suddenly animated as if it were once un-alive and now was miraculously transformed to the living.