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Herman Boaz

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Herman Boaz

1795 Broadside
Borncirca 1737
DiedJanuary of 1821 (age 83)
Edinburgh
NationalityGerman
Flourished1890s-1910s
CategoriesBooks by Herman Boaz

Herman Boaz was a native German who appeared in Britain from the 1770s until the 1820s as the Sieur ("sir" in Old French) Boaz. He made several tours of Great Britain demonstrating various tricks and mentalism. [1]

In The Lives of the Conjurors (1876), Thomas Frost refers to him as a "small fry of the profession", although the number of advertisements and articles about his exhibitions and displays in newspapers and magazines from 1777 onward would suggest he might have been popular.

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.

Boaz died in Edinburgh after nearly twelve years being diabled by a paralytic affection.


Books

The Juggler's Oracle, or, the Whole Art of Legerdemain Laid Open (1826).


References

  1. HERMAN BOAZ OUT-CONJURED IN GLASGOW By EDWIN A. DAWES in Magic Circular August 1994; reprinted in Complete Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities (2005)
  2. http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com/2012/06/before-you-could-say-herman-boaz.html