RUMFORD — Children and adults interested in learning how to perform magic and showmanship by signing up for Scot Grassette’s magic school can rest easy.
Grassette said last month that he won’t be teaching his students how to do the Walk of Danger stunt with the bear and beaver traps and other sharp objects that he did on the Fourth of July in 2011.
“They don’t have to do the bear-trap trick,” he said.
Blindfolded and barefoot that day, Grassette walked through a 13- by 50-foot cordoned off section of Hosmer Field that was fraught with 4-inch spikes, screws, glass shards, and beaver and bear traps.
“That was pretty neat,” he said. “I learned that from John Calvert. He’s passed away now. That’s the only trick that I’ve done that I learned from him.”
Grassette said Calvert was one of his favorite lecturers who did a lot of blindfolded flying and driving. “But I don’t think he’s ever done a bear trap,” he said.
“I don’t know that I’d ever do a bear-trap act again. I thought about it afterward. Even if I had a good plan and it worked, I could have tripped.”
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