Magic & Conjuring

This periodical ran for 5 volumes and 60 numbers, from September 1905 to August 1910. With volume 1 number 9, it became the official organ of the Magic Circle. For the last two numbers in 1910, P. T. Selbit handed the editorship to George Munro. It was succeeded by the Magic Wand.

This PDF holds an index for the first four volumes each. The indices are grouped into the following categories (not all categories appear in all volume indices):

• Articles
• Ball Tricks
• Card Tricks
• Coin Tricks
• Correspondence
• Conversations
• Current Programmes
• Flower Tricks
• Gossip
• Handkerchief Tricks
• Hat Tricks
• Illustrations
• Jokes
• Magic Circle
• Obituary
• Our Monthly Telephone
• Poetry
• Popular Patter
• Portraits
• Practical Magic
• Programmes
• Recollections of Hartz
• Sketches
• Thimble Tricks
• Tricks

Contents:

1. The Wizard – Volume I – September, 1905 – August, 1906
2. Index ...

For the last two numbers, George Munro took over the editorship from P. T. Selbit.

773. The Wizard - Volume V, Number 49 - September, 1909 - 16 pages
773. Cover - Imro Fox
774. Ornum's advertisement
775. Notices
775. Gossip
776. Advertisements
777. A Protean Wand
777. The Magic Circle
777. Advertisements
778. Conjuring a Cake
     • Two New Methods of Performing a Popular Problem
       • The Preparation of the Cake
       • The Culinary Operation
       • The Cutting Part
       • Another Method
       • The Bran Box Again
       • A Fiery Dish
779. Nikola Breaks Out Again
     • A Half-Minute Perplexity Pickle
       • The Problem to...

581. The Wizard - Volume IV, Number 37 - September, 1908 - 16 pages
581. Cover - Chung Ling Soo
582. Hambley's advertisement
583. Notices
583. Gossip
585. Indian Conjurers at the Franco-British Exhibition
586. Correspondence
586. British Magical Society
     • Ideas Competition
587. Recollections of Hartz by Professor Hoffmann - continued
     • The Automatic Rising Cards
588. Marionettes - continued
     • The Figures
       • Chapter V - A Living Skeleton and the Donkey and Cart
589. The Northern Magical Society
590. The Master Mystery - A Puzzling Performance
     • Amusing Opinions
591. Advertisements

597. The Wizard...

389. The Wizard - Volume III, Number 25 - September, 1907 - 16 pages
389. Cover - Leon Herrmann
390. Hambley's advertisement
391. Notices
391. Gossip
392. The Carl Lebert Fund
393. Magic with Water Vases - J. W. Dewhurst
393. Thought Reading - New Book Advertisement
394. Recollections of Hartz by Professor Hoffmann - continued
     • The Mysterious Addition
395. The Magic Circle
395. Death of Bruno Walters
396. More Confetti Magic - N. P. Alvaro, India
397. The Egg and Confetti Trick - Another Way of Working It - J. W. Dewhurst
397. Correspondence
     • Derivations and meaning of Magical Expressions - humor
398. A Man of Magic - John Henry...

197. The Wizard - Volume II, Number 13 - September, 1906 - 16 pages
197. Cover - Le Roy, Talma and Bosco
198. Hambley's advertisement
199. Notices
199. Gossip
200. The Magic Circle
201. Oldest Conjurer in England - A Chat with Prof. Devono
201. Correspondence
202. Hartz and His Hat Trick - Professor Hoffmann - continued
204. The Melting Billiard Ball - effect
204. "A Black Art Handkerchief Producer" in the last issue was from Fullam McGlade
205. A Lively Drum - E. Cooper
205. To Tear a Pack of Cards in Two
206. Conjuring Tricks - by a Grown-up Infant
207. re: Tipping Stage Hands
207. A Sympathetic Ode - poem
207. re: Chapeaugraphy
208. The Instantaneous Production...

1. The Wizard - Volume I, Number 1 - September, 1905 - 16 pages
1. Cover - Poster for Maskelyne & Devant's Mascot Moth
2. Hambley's advertisement
3. Notices
3. Introduction
3. Gossip
6. Maskelyne & Devant's Mysteries
7. A Card and Egg Trick
7. Editorial
8. Practical Prestigiation
   • The Incubator Canister
10. note - Maskelyne & Devant in the "Topical Times"
10. The Magic Circle
11. Professional Announcements
12. In London City
12. Correspondence
13. Scissors and Paste
13. The Funny Electric Pencil - Ornum's advertisement
14. Conjuring - Past and Present
14. Pars. From the Provinces
14. A North British Magician's Wooing - humor
15. Harry...

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"I've been performing this over the past few days and more than one spectator has been convinced that I possess ESP. It's that strong." - Tommaso Guglielmi

"Another phenomenal effect by the Unnamed Magician. If you like thought of card tricks or coincidence tricks, this is a steal for the price." - Tony Bianco

A truly remarkable coincidence. A deck is shuffled and divided into two halves. The spectator thinks of a card in their half, the magician thinks of a card in his half, and when the two halves are simultaneously dealt through, the two cards...

Undercover Jokers is a totally improvised and self-working card-magic effect that can be performed with a borrowed and freely shuffled deck, with the addition of the two Jokers. It tells the action of two investigative jokers acting undercover in search of a particular pair of cards, two figures representing two dangerous fugitives. The last sighting takes place inside a small, mysterious, and crowded club, the Card Club, popular with magicians and gamblers. After identifying and capturing the first criminal among the many people in the club, the two jokers, thanks to their intuition gained...

Jolly sotto copertura è un effetto di cartomagia totalmente improvvisato, può essere eseguito con un mazzo preso in prestito e mescolato liberamente, con l’aggiunta dei due Jolly. Si racconta dell’azione di due jolly investigatori che agiscono sotto copertura alla ricerca di una coppia di carte particolari, due figure che rappresentano due pericolose fuggitive. L’ultimo avvistamento avviene all’interno di un piccolo, misterioso e affollato locale, il Club delle Carte, molto frequentato da maghi e giocatori d’azzardo. Dopo aver identificato e catturato la prima criminale tra le...

The spectator names any card. No force. No equivoque. He can change his mind. It will be a different card every time.

The card's meaning has been predicted by a voodoo fortune teller. There is only one prediction and it is in full view at all times.

No sleights. No memorization. No mathematics. Instant reset. Nothing added or taken away. Practically works itself.

1st edition 2024, PDF 18 pages.

An in-depth look at the corner short card.

This eBook will delve into the secret world of corner short cards, thoroughly explaining what they are, how to make them, their remarkable capabilities, and six astounding effects using them. If you're unfamiliar with the concept of a corner short card, prepare to uncover a potent tool ready to revolutionize your skill set. Corner short cards, the weapon of countless leading card experts, provide magicians with an undetectable method of controlling cards, enabling the creation of miracles.

1st edition 2024, PDF 28 pages.

Can you recognize a wine just by its smell? Can you do it blindfolded? Can you do it without wine?

You write on three billets the name of your favorite wines (let's say for example "Gevrey-Chambertin", "Pommard", "Saint-Emilion") and display them in front of your participant. As you turn your back, you ask the participant to switch two of the "wines". And two more. It can be any two. And again, and again and again...When the participant is convinced that the wines are properly mixed, you face him, blindfolded, and ask him to hand you the "wines" one by one. You're then able to recognize...

This ebook includes a nice introduction to Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) and a range of tricks from quick effects to longer routines. Note that many of the effects described require some double-face ESP cards.

• The Study Of ESP / Arthur Hastings
• Little Miracles / U. F. Grant
• The Two Card Trick / Bert Allerton
• The Third Choice / Tony Corinda
• That's The One / Joseph White
• Signed, Sealed And Delivered / Joseph White
• Edward Marlo And ESP
  • Foreword
  • Blank Card Prediction
  • Mental Reselection
  • Under Cover Mentalism
  • Behind, Under Or Above
  • Second Method
  • Card Man's Mentalism
• One Out...

An intriguing and fooler card effect, completely impromptu and self-working.

This is a new self-working, impromptu, card effect, always performable, even with a borrowed deck: the illusionist briefly tells the story of the very famous criminal couple Bonnie & Clyde, who operated in the 1930s in the United States with their own gang. The deck of cards, shuffled by the spectator, will represent the inhabitants of the state of Louisiana, among whom hid the men and women who were part of the gang of gangsters most hunted by the police. The magician will thus form three piles of cards to represent...

Un nuovo effetto automatico di Cartomagia, intrigante e ingannatore, completamente estemporaneo ed automatico!

Si tratta di un effetto completamente self-working ed eseguibile in ogni occasione, che utilizza un semplice mazzo da poker che può anche essere preso a prestito e risultare incompleto. L’illusionista racconta brevemente la storia della famosissima coppia di criminali Bonnie e Clyde, che operava negli anni Trenta negli Stati Uniti con la propria banda. Il mazzo di carte, mescolato dallo spettatore, rappresenterà gli abitanti dello stato della Louisiana, tra i quali si nascondevano...

This is not a trick but a performance piece.

• A trick has the performance wrapped within the secret or the method of the trick.
• A performance piece has the secret or the method wrapped within the performance.

It is called Performer's ACAAN because

• This ACAAN looks way bigger in comparison to how conventional ACAANs are approached
• It allows to you get a minimum of seven people to participate / play from their seats and only one of them joins you on stage.
• It also allows you to move among the audience, get close to them, thus ensuring ample audience engagement and more elbow room...

This is Dr. Lynn's autobiography describing his travels in Australia, China, Japan, Hong Kong, India, and other countries. He was the earliest Western magician to perform in China and Japan. He had a long-lasting rivalry with J. N. Maskelyne appearing a week before Maskelyne in the Egyptian Hall in London in the spring of 1873.

In the "How It's Done" section he provides mock descriptions of some of his tricks.

• TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF DR. LYNN
• HOW IT'S DONE
  • The Mysterious Spirit-writing
  • The Blood-writing on the Arm
  • Time in a Fix
  • The Pomaceous Puzzle
  • The Ornithological Inexplicability
  • The...

Includes news stories and photos from Hardeen's life as an escape artist. Plus some handcuff secrets and a couple of tricks are explained.

• Theo. Weiss Hardeen
  • Chief Of Police Stirling Baffled
  • The Murderous Insane Strait-Jacket Challenge
  • Hardeen Appears Before A Mighty Audience Of Eighty Thousand People
  • King Oscar Of Sweden Sees Hardeen
  • Klaw And Erlanger Engage Hardeen
  • Hardeen Jumps Heavily Manacled Into The Ohio River From The 18th Street Bridge, A Distance Of Sixty Feet, Into Six Feet Of Water, And Releases Himself While Under Water
  • Lives Of Thousands Of People Jeopardized
  • Hardeen...

A small plastic tub with a tight push-on lid is shown, opened, and a collection of coins tipped from inside. The performer puts his initials on a self-adhesive round sticker, attaches it to one of the coins, and then repeats the process for the other side of the coin with a sticker bearing a spectator's initials.

The rest of the coins are returned to the tub and the lid is pushed back on. Taking the marked coin into his hand the performer strikes it against the bottom of the container, immediately showing that both his hands are empty.

The tub is handed to a spectator who prises off...

Price will go up to $20 on June 27th, 2024.

A location of a selected card under true test conditions. The deck is shuffled before and after the selection ... yet the card can be located. The Unnamed Magician originally released this (in a guest appearance) as part of Christian Grace's "Magic Monthly" membership, and now it is being released here. The method you will learn here is slightly different (and cleaner) compared to the method taught in "Magic Monthly." It's fooled many well-versed magicians, so laymen don't stand a chance. Read on. (There is a full performance video with a spectator...

EFFECT

One bullet. Six chambers. One Ace of Spades. Six positions among five red cards. You give the cards to the participant for examination. The participant secretly inserts the "bullet" into one of the six chambers and hands you back the "gun".

The cards lie on your wide-open hand, you don't even look at them. You look at the participant. He knows where the bullet is. As you deal the first card face up, you say: "clic". The card is red. Empty chamber.

You keep looking at your participant. How does he feel about the next one? You deal the next one face up. Red card, empty chamber....

All sleights - no gimmicks. A brilliant book of magic with billiard balls.

There's something to be said for manipulative magic, for there is nothing to hide once the routine is finished. The various moves, effects and routines can be interspersed with the regular multiplying billiard balls effect to create a blended act that leaves your audience breathless. And what performer worth his or her salt doesn't strive for that?

Partial contents:

• Hat and Ball Routine
• Stealing a Billiard Ball from the Pocket
• Billiard Ball Vanish and Recovery
• Vanishing a Ball into the Coat Pocket
• Ball Vanish...

The magician picks up a card box as if to demonstrate a card trick and discovers that it rattles. Opening it, he tips from within four 3-volt circular batteries. Taking one of the batteries into his fist, he squeezes it and on opening the hand it is seen to have changed to a more powerful AAA battery. Holding this battery at the fingertips, the performer passes his other hand across it and causes it to visibly change to a larger AA battery.

Finally, he clasps his two empty hands together and on parting them reveals that now a square 9-volt battery has magically appeared!

No gimmicks...

Ideas for radio magic, podcasts, and ZOOM shows

Radio has a following of thousands of listeners. It is a powerful promotional vehicle for magicians that the magic press have long neglected.

Combining the extensive research of Ian Fenn with the previously unpublished thoughts of Arthur Setterington, this ebook aims to help magicians make the most of this challenging medium.

It's not merely a book of tricks. It's intended to give you the information you need to create your own routines that will turn listeners into clients or live audiences.

Contents

• Introduction
• History of radio...

It's never been done before because it's never been possible until now and now you can predict the assisting spectator's actual beliefs. For the kicker, a second prediction nails any card of 52 the spectator names!

There have been no other predictions like these in the history of magic and mentalism. No sleights. No memorization. Instant reset. No refills. It can be a different card every time. Nothing added and nothing taken away.

Also included as part of the The Bammo I Don't Know Wallet Dossier 5.0, so get it there or get it here.

You will need a deck of cards, a Sharpie, and a Himber or Z-fold wallet.

1st edition...

An entertaining look at the annual enchanting Tenyo bonus program from 1996 to 2023.

The T-series of Tenyo magic tricks is world-famous. Less well-known is the "Plus 1" series, which is only available in Japan and only for points that can be collected with purchased T-series tricks. For almost 30 years, a new trick has been released every year in this Plus 1 series. Solano presents these 28 tricks here.

It is a wonderful collector's theme that contains many a trick-technical gem.

• 1996: Psychic Battle ESP
• 1997: Four Chance Game
• 1998: Fortune Telling Card
• 1999: Dream Psychometry ...

Eine kurzweilige Betrachtung des von Tenyo jährlich neu aufgelegten zauberhaften Bonusprogramms der Jahre 1996 bis 2023.

Die T-Serie von Tenyo Zaubertricks ist weltbekannt. Weniger bekannt ist die "Plus 1" Serie die nur in Japan erhältlich ist und nur gegen Punkte die man mit gekauften T-Serien Tricks sammeln kann. Seit fast mehr als 30 Jahren kommt in dieser Plus-1 Serie jedes Jahr ein neuer Trick heraus. Solano stellt diese 28 Tricks hier vor.

Es ist ein wunderschönes Sammelthema das so manches tricktechnisches Gustostückerl beinhaltet.

• 1996: Psychic Battle ESP
• 1997: Four Chance...

This effect has an innovative twist on the traditional Free Will plot, where the spectator makes all the choices. Yet, your prediction aligns perfectly with their selections, a feat achieved using only one prediction. This new approach utilizes a combination of psychological techniques and physical methods, all designed to maximize the chances of achieving the most deceptive and cleanest outcome possible. This effect serves as a fantastic opener, making it a suitable addition to your Everyday Carry (EDC), and best of all, it resets automatically. There are no complex flowcharts to memorize,...