An amazing illusion!

Show an empty box, giving it also out for examination, then put an alive rabbit (or a dove, or any other object) in it. Now put a decorated panel in the box, so as to cover its content. Take a sword, run it through the box from side to side and remove the panel... the rabbit has mysteriously vanished!
Show the box from all its sides... your spectators won't believe their own eyes!
Now, put the panel back in the box, remove the sword and the rabbit will magically reappear!

• The box is cm 24 x 16 x 20 (in. 9  x 6 x 8).