Animated Human Skull. Vienna: S. Klingl, 1920s. Genuine adult human skull mounted on a turned wooden platform and isolated under a glass dome nods up and down to answer ?yes,? or shakes back and forth to answer ?no? when questions are posed by the magician or audience. Base conceals a simple but unique mechanism to animate the skull. Includes heavy glass bell jar and stand. Skull height 8 ??.Unlike other models of this classic effect, the example offered here incorporates a real human skull, and is animated in a fashion different to all others we have encountered.