A SLEIGHT of hand trick which turned one chicken into two so captivated a ten-year-old boy that it set him on a path to becoming a magician himself.
For years, Joe Lewis of Silkstone has been wowing audiences with his magic.
He started with card tricks at home for his friends and family.
"My father was a bookmaker and he had a lot of friends who knew a lot of card tricks," Mr Lewis said.
"They would show me how to perform different card tricks."
Years later he learned how to perform the chicken trick, which first ignited his interest in magic, along with many others.

"I'm a magic nutter," Mr Lewis confessed surrounded by hun­dreds of props he has collected and used over the years.
It was not until 1967 that Mr Lewis, a hairdresser by trade, took his magic out of the living room and on the road, becoming the Amazing Danton.
In 2000, Mr Lewis retired from hairdressing and at the ripe old age of 69, devoted himself to magic full-time.

Mr Lewis said he got a real buzz from being a magician.
"I get a kick out of performing and also watching peoples' faces, as they try to figure out how the trick was done," he said.
"Magic gets in your blood. The more I do it, the more I want to do.
"I am always looking for new tricks and practicing my old ones."