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Herman Boaz
Herman Boaz | |
Born | circa 1737 |
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Died | January of 1821 (age 83) |
Nationality | German |
Flourished | 1890s-1910s |
Categories | Books by Herman Boaz |
Herman Boaz was a German who appeared in Britain during the last decade of the 18th-century and the earlier part of the 19th-century as the Sieur Boaz.[1]
In The Lives of the Conjurors (1876), Thomas Frost refers to him as a "small fry of the profession".
In Miracle Mongers and their Methods, Houdini mentions that Boaz employed a fire-eater billed as the "Man-Salamander" on his program.
One of his more bizarre acts was a hen that laid twenty eggs in a row on a table and then withdrawing from the innards of a hot "roasted jigget of mutton" cards on audience members had earlier written their thoughts.[2]
The Caledonian Conjuror, Mr Arbuckle, stated on his billing that he was one of Boaz's pupils.
Books
The Juggler's Oracle, or, the Whole Art of Legerdemain Laid Open (1826).
References
- ↑ HERMAN BOAZ OUT-CONJURED IN GLASGOW By EDWIN A. DAWES in Magic Circular August 1994; reprinted in Complete Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities (2005)
- ↑ http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com/2012/06/before-you-could-say-herman-boaz.html