Magic & Conjuring: page 195

The Jastrow illusion is known to magicians as the boomerang illusion. Two boomerang-shaped ring segments seem to be of different sizes but are in fact identical.

Magicians tend to underestimate the power of this simple trick. Its use in magic is limited to children's entertainers and magic kits. This illusion is more powerful than it seems at first sight. A recent viral video shows that its deceptive power is as strong as it was when first discovered almost 150 years ago.

The Jastrow Illusion in Magic ebook provides an in-depth review of the psychology of this illusion and a detailed overview...

More than 800 pages of tricks, books, illusions, and other magic products.

1st edition 1947, 832 pages.

Includes a historical sketch about Abbott Magic, how it came to be, and why it was started in Colon, MI.

1st edition 1972, 464 pages.

The catalog gives a date of 1976, but that is the same date as #21, which means they probably forgot to change it. Most likely this catalog was published in the early 1980s. The latest date mentioned anywhere in the catalog is 1981. My best guess therefore is that this catalog was released in 1981 or 1982.

1st edition 198?, 448 pages.

More than 40 years ago Jon Racherbaumer wrote a book on the Universal Card plot introduced by Karl Fulves. This is an updated and expanded version.

• By Any Other Name – Karl Fulves
• Universal Card – Robert Parrish
• Universal Card – Francis Haxton
• Universal Ghost – Roy Walton
• Universal Mexican – Roy Walton
• Universal Joker – Horace Bennett
• Reflection – Edward Marlo
• Hypnotic Card – Edward Marlo
• Favorite Universal – Edward Marlo
• Universal Solutions – Edward Marlo
• Universal IV – Edward Marlo
• Tout’s Universal – Edward Marlo
• The Chameleon Card – Jon Racherbaumer
• Universal...

Steve is a simplified and totally organic animated silk suitable for all lighting conditions, indoors or out. The easy to build and easy to operate gimmick allows you to bring any silk 12" or larger to life. Carry this in your pocket and you are ready to go at all times. Great as a quick "hey check this out" between routines or with some creativity, a featured animation perfect for all performing situations. Steve is so easy and fun you will catch yourself passing your free time with "Steve" in hand!

1st edition 2016, 10 pages.

A primer for working with a partner. This text addresses such questions as: why work with a partner, what do look for in a magician you want to work with, documents that both partners need to consider, the basics of putting a performance together and other information.

• Why a partnership
• What to look for In partner
• The partner agreement
• Partnered performance
• Transitioning
• Accent the positive
• Wrapping it up

1st edition 2016, 21 pages.

Ian delights in finding forgotten gems in classical card literature, which he then refines and updates for modern day audiences. In this manuscript, you will find a further five effects which have received Ian's careful study and are sure to delight both you and your spectators.

In Miraskill Detour Ian has taken the classic Miraskill and turned it into a totally impromptu and self working mystery, while in the process managing to streamline the procedure and still maintain the strong impact of the original routine.

MBJ Echo is a re-working of an old Henry Christ trick, simple both in effect...

Magic products are being offered in the following categories:

• Accessories
• Advertising Section
• Ball Magic
• Bird Cages
• Block Tricks
• Bottle Tricks
• Candle Tricks
• Canes
• Card Magic
• Change Bags
• Cigarette Tricks
• Close-Up and Pocket Tricks
• Coin and Money Magic
• Comedy Effects
• Cups and Balls
• Dice
• Egg
• Escapes
• Flower Magic
• Trick Glasses
• Illusions
• Kid-Show Magic
• Light Bulbs
• Linking Rings
• Liquid Magic
• Water Lotas
• Milk Tricks
• Tricks with Livestock
• Mental magic
• Paper Magic
• Production Magic
• Rice Bowls
• Rope Tricks
• Silk Magic
• Spook and Spirit Material
• Modern Tables
• Thimbles ...

In this catalog Eddie Joseph and all his publications and separately sold tricks received a separate section. Abbott is also operating their own printing presses and advertises to print business cards, letterheads, handbills and show cards for magicians. A price list is included at the very end.

• Accessories
• Balls
• Bottles
• Cages
• Canes
• Cards
• Change Bags
• Cigarettes
• Club
• Comedy
• Dice
• Eggs
• Escapes
• Fish
• Flowers
• Glasses
• Illusions
• Joseph
• Light Bulbs
• Linking Rings
• Liquid
• Livestock
• Lotas
• Mental
• Milk
• Money
• Novelties
• Paper
• Parasols
• Pocket
• Printing
• Reels
• Rice Bowls
• Rising...

Two magicians do a show. At the end one audience leaves the show walking out like students changing classes at high school. The other comes out excited, talking about some of the "WOW" moments of the show. The difference between the two magicians is the entertainment factor.

You can have the best equipment, do the latest/greatest magic and still fail. The true unit of measure for magicians is the entertainment factor. That factor is controlled entirely by the audience. This text identifies elements that impact the entertainment factor.

• The Entertainment Factor
• Entertainment Factor Impacts ...

Please note that this video is in Vietnamese. There are some English subtitles, but for the most part you will get the instructions of how to make the gimmick and how to perform with it from the visual contents of the video.

Demo video for the effects you can achieve is below. The gimmick should not be a surprise for anybody knowledgeable in magic. The primary value of this video is to see how you can make the gimmick very easily yourself and various ideas for performing with it.

1st edition 2016, length 26 minutes.

An improvised month divination

Month ID is an original method to secretly gain knowledge of a stranger's month of birth. (Actually, any information among twelve possibilities...) It can be done independently, anytime, anywhere, without any preparation at all, or props.

Basic Effect:

You ask a person you just met: "Do you know your zodiac digit? It is a digit between 0 and 9 that is influenced by the season, the climate, the month of birth and other factors. Here is how to calculate your ZODIAC DIGIT: Think of your birth month and do the following ... " (Very simple, just a couple of...

This is a great collection of tricks from a list of top-notch contributors.

From the introduction:

This is a collection of the following titles:

• Thrilling Magic by Leonard H. Miller
• Super Sensitive Fingertips by Howard P. Albright
• Map Mirako Act by Vin Carey
• Mindreading for Two People by Sydney de Hempsey
• Super Memory Plus by Gerald Kosky
• Forbidden Wisdom by Howard P. Albright
• Thought Wings Onward--Part One by Eddie Clever

PDF 122 pages

This is a collection of the following titles:

• Needle Routine by M.S. "Doc" Mahdendra
• Super Psychic Mental Effects by Howard Albright
• Sand Painting by Howard Mel Melson
• Simplified Memory Act by Samuel Shapiro
• Dwarf Act by Richard Merry
• X-Jargon by Wallace Lee
• Thought Wings Onward--Part Two by Eddie Clever

PDF 123 pages

This completes the series with

• Character Reading by R.S. Glover
• Astrologia by Howard P. Albright. A "sealed message" psychic routine completely detailed and incorporating the Automatic Prompter--an invaluable aid in delivering a convincing and unusual psychic reading. Techniques and presentations that appear nowhere else.

1st edition 1984; PDF 72 pages

This ebook brings the art of sleeving into reality, and combined with his new approaches to old sleights and many sleights, which have never appeared in print, make this treatise on coin magic one every magician should have in his library.

Fred Baumann, who through Tannen's Stars of Magic series has released his "Metalogic," Magic Spoon Bending, which has already become a classic. This was followed soon after by his "Magician's Dream," an unbelievable coin vanish. This ebook imparts his many new ideas and routines of all practical magic on coin assemblies, vanishes and productions. Also in...

This ebook is a compilation of the following titles:

• A Practical Lesson in Cups and Balls
• Advanced Lessons in Cups and Balls
• Last Word on Cups and Balls
• My Favorite Routine with Cups and Balls

Over sixty...

A major portion of the audience's experience involves the environment. Their enjoyment can be pleasurable or highly distracted by the area they are given to watch you. This text covers the importance of the performing environment from both the stage and audience perspectives. It goes into details that need to be discussed before the room is set up. It covers many areas most magicians take for granted.

• Seating
• Staff
• Performance Area
• Sound
• Flow Path
• Emergencies
• Get Ahead of Set Up
• Meet and Greet
• Wrapping it Up

1st edition 2016, 20 pages.

No longer must you be content to merely watch and be mystified by TV mentalists. Embarrassing, isn't it, to have our friends recall the miracles of a TV mentalist and ask YOU how they were accomplished - when you might be a successful TV mentalist yourself! You, too, can bask in the limelight and glory of television.

SENSATIONAL "BRAIN BUSTER" ROUTINES REVEALED
All phases of successful operation are covered in detail in this volume, written by mentalists with many years of actual experience. Actual program methods and routines, including the sensational and baffling "Brain Busters" are explained....

A hands off Bank Night Routine, and so much more.

The Elimination Principle is the method behind TC Tahoe's "The Color Game", a simple and direct, Bank Night routine.

This manuscript also includes a Safe Smash and Stab type effect. And one of TC's favorite routines for opening a show called, On the House.

Simple, direct magic, that can work for a small group or a thousand. Play for laughs or are a serious mental piece.

1st edition 2016, 14 pages.

A call comes in and their magician cancelled. They need a magic show in the next half hour. Can you be packed and ready to go? Maybe you are at an event and one of the sponsors comes up to you and says they need to fill a thirty-minute gap in their schedule. Are you ready to step on stage and go to work? The answer rests in what this text refers to as a tool box show. When the phone rings, if the money is right, all you need to do is grab your tool box and go to work. This ebook will help you take advantage of those "short notice" performance opportunities.

• Real world
• Tool box show purpose ...

Gospel magic can be done as a business. But there are steps in the planning process, research needed in the market place and calculations that have to be done first. There are times we can make the decision. Then there are others where the decision is made for us. This ebook will give you a strong foundation approach. It will identify how you determine expenses, project income and how to plan for your net profits. If you do your homework this book will identify if making an income is practical in your area.

Magicians perform Gospel magic for free, some charge to recover their expenses and...