Sawing women in half caused literal audience fainting
Audiences in the nineteen twenties were so aggressively gullible that the first public performance of the sawing illusion required parked ambulances outside the venue. Promoters actively paid actors to dramatically pass out in the aisles just to hype up the gore.

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