Magic combines multiple principles of attention, awareness, trust and perception to both overtly and covertly misdirect the audience. Whether they are used for performance art or as a means to illicitly separate victims from their money and valuables, the accomplished performer uses robust and intuitive manipulative devices that are of great interest to neuroscientists pursuing the neural underpinnings of cognition, memory, sensation, social attachment, causal inference and awareness.

Granny Weatherwax: "That's one form of magic, of course."
Esk: "What, just knowing things?"
Granny Weatherwax: "Knowing things that other people don't know." (Equal Rites / Terry Pratchett)

Keith barrys Irish ,famous and unsettling
And an eejit