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Grin Reaper

An ideal Penetration effect for Halloween or Harvest celebrations, but a proper story of the "Grim Reaper” could make it suitable any time.

EFFECT: an assistant hold up a sheaf of reeds, sticks, rushes, etc. between out-stretched hands, one above the other. The performer uses a garden sickle to cut through the sheaf in a single sweeping cut. The assistant repeats the stance except that this time a handkerchief, rope or necklace is also stretched between the hands and is visible at all times. With a swing the sickle cuts through the reeds but leaves the handkerchief unscathed. “All the people in the village were killed except one child who did a good deed.”