Vintage Chinese Stick
This is how it goes:
Hold the two wands together in one of your hands.
When you pull the short tassel on one wand, the long tassel on the other wand becomes shorter!
What??
So you do it again- pull the short tassel on one wand, the long tassel on the other wand goes up.
You repeat this until your audience eagerly shouts out that “the wands are connected” at the end held in your hand.
BUT NO!!
Amazingly, when the wands are completely separated, there is no connecting cord!
Yet even though the wands are clearly separated, pulling on the short tassel of one STILL makes the long tassel on the other become shorter!