Who Was Copying Houdini's Tricks

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I think it does support my reasons because he became famous by doing dangers tricks and that there weren't invented and that people thought it was amazing tricks so people paid just to come see his tricks but the bad thing was that people also wanted to do that so they would copy his tricks and do theme for they could be famous and win money also people even try copying Houdini's name by whodini,Oudini and hardini also what he did is he sue theme because they were copying him on his tricks and his name.

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