Magic & Conjuring: page 161

Manuale pratico per il ventriloquo moderno.

Ricordi da bambino quella figura di artista che riusciva a far parlare i pupazzi senza muovere le labbra e tutti ti dicevano che era un Ventriloquo, una persona con una capacità innata di riuscire a parlare con il ventre? Nulla di più falso! Il Ventriloquo è un artista che riesce a fare ciò che fa usando delle tecniche che richiedono esercizio ma che possono essere imparate.

In questo ebook Dante Cigarini, maestro in quest’arte condivide con te la sua grande esperienza nell’arte di dare non solo una voce, bensì un’anima ai pupazzi. Imparerai...

• Should you become an amateur or professional magician?
• Do you need an agent?
• The business side of magic shows: Microphones and other sound equipment
• The business side of magic shows: Promotional materials
• Phone calls
• Brochures/Flyers/Cards
• The business side of magic shows: The media and advertising
• Tri-media
• Print
• TV
• Radio
• New media
• Websites
• The business side of magic shows: Liability insurance
• The business side of magic shows: Finding your gigs
• The business side of magic shows: What about costumes & makeup?
• Should you have an assistant?
• Learning the tricks:...

Excerpt from the introduction:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Will O' the Witch
• Psychic Deck
• The Spirit of...

QUODLIBET significa letteralmente “quello che ti piace, o quello che preferisci” ed è il tema che lega le due pubblicazioni che portano questo nome, la prima dedicata a una evoluzione delle tabelle numeriche e uno sviluppo del principio applicato a un mazzo di 52 carte, e quest'ultimo QUODLIBET 2, che propone la versione con i Tarocchi.

Un mazzo di Tarocchi a dorso in alto è posto sul tavolo in piena vista; a uno spettatore si chiederà di scegliere solo mentalmente uno qualunque dei 78 Arcani, della serie maggiore o minore come più preferisce, e di concentrarsi su di esso. Si consegnerà...

Quodlibet literally means "what you like, or what you prefer" and is the theme that links the two publications that bear this name, the first dedicated to an evolution of the numerical tables and a development of the principle applied to a 52-card deck, and the latter Quodlibet 2, which proposes the Tarot version.

An upturned Tarot deck is placed on the table in full view; a spectator will be asked to choose only mentally any one of the 78 Arcana, of the major or minor series as he or she prefers, and to concentrate on it. The spectator will be handed a series of seven folders depicting...

Beyonce & Elton is a new ebook featuring several excellent self-working card tricks for close-up. Also included are a few excellent visual gags and one-liners to help you add a bit of humor to the presentations. So, what's in this ebook?

Beyonce & Elton: Two cards are freely placed into the deck (no forcing) - and they end up right next to the only other two matching cards. When the deck is shown, all the other cards are Rolling Stones cards. An updated version of an old classic.

An Invisible Card Trick: A prediction is placed on the table in advance. The spectator is asked to select...

An opening magic effect for an unknown audience as scaffolding for a full routine. Full involvement of audience participation and imagination in making the magic happen, with astonishment beyond expectations.

With obviously empty hands as a guide, you have three spectators each imagine a different colored poker chip and pretend to place it your left hand. This prize is then guarded by a fourth spectator as three other guests decide on the order of the chips in the imaginary stack. When your hand opens it contains three actual poker chips in the exact color order chosen by the spectators....

A collection of 25 coin effects.

Coin effects have always been my niche in the world of magic. Since I was a boy, watching a coin vanish or appear has fascinated me. The effects use:

• Invisiblair: A holdout (a gambling device that has been used for nearly 100 years) that I have modified specifically for coins.
• Folding Half: A gimmicked coin that can be produced under the most improbable of circumstances.
• Double Stick Tape: Providing an inexpensive means to vanish a coin from either hand impromptu and without a trace.

Contents

• Dedication
• Introduction
• Section I: Invisiblair ...

The coin rolls on.

Tired of those sissified Coins Through the Table routines? Do you get an itchy trigger finger when someone says: "Would you like to see my unique handling of Matrix"? Have you sat through a Coins Across presentation that was so complex that even the magician got lost? Are we not men? Then what we need is Silver II. Packed with the bizarre. The common stuff got weeded out in the first edit.

Contents

• Dedication
• Introduction
• PEZ-AZZ
• LEFTOVERS
• SIDESWITCH
• CSI
• PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
• SQUARING OFF
• CROSS SLEEVE
• FIRST APPEARANCES
• TIE SCORE
• REEL MAN
• SWITCHREEL
• FLASHTRAY ...

Reveals the actual methods used by this master medium to hoodwink the gullible public.

Thousands of believers swore that Eusapia Paladino, the Italian-born psychic medium, genuinely used her powers to invoke and deliver the spirits of departed loved ones. While she was at it, Eusapia suggested - and received - donations of $1750 in today's money from each participant to attend her seances. No wonder she guarded her secrets so convincingly.

Read about her exploits and learn the methods used by this psychic fraud to hoax her loyal subjects. No matter if you read the contents for your own...

Effects with Fantasio's vanishing and appearing candles.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Going GaGa is a new ebook by Graham Hey containing some brand-new material and a couple of little-known classics brought up to date. They're all easy to do and brilliantly effective. You'll probably have most things you need to do these tricks - cards, duplicates, envelopes, etc.

Going GaGa is a great mentalism effect and a total 'magician fooler'. It's clever and easy to do. The performer hands a prediction to a spectator. Two spectators are given a pile of cards each. The first spectator shuffles his cards and selects any one. He is handed a list of celebrities and counts down - if he...

A collection of cool magic effects to heat up your stage performance.

• Dedication
• Purple / Green Santa
• Author
• Sparkle Matches: Matches are produced lit in your magic act, with electrical sparks showering off them. The sparks accentuate the lit match productions.
• Confetti Packets: Produce a burst of shiny mylar confetti at any time during your magic act.
• Throw Streamer Packet: A colorful burst of throw streamers appears at any point in your act. This setup makes them easy to steal from any pocket, table, scarf, or any place you wish.
• Funbrella: At the end of a scarf routine, an umbrella...

Dedicated to those kindred spirits who also tread the seldom trod paths of strange and unearthly magic. This weird concoction, known as 'Witches' Brew', is offered to necromancers, sorcerers, and all those nighthawks who dabble in the strange and mysterious. Long may your midnight oil burn and your candles splutter in your pursuit of the Forbidden Arts.

• The Power Of The Pentagram
• Out Of The Body
• Ten Talons Of Taz
• Power Of The Mummy
• Ritual Of El Shaitan
• Old Mother Long Nose
• Pages From The Book Of Thoth
• Mirror Of Fate
• Dial H .....! For Hell
• Catch Me A Demon
• The Whispering Skull ...

You will learn a new way of handling a silk vanish. This is accomplished with a thumb tip or dye tube. A real crowd-pleaser. Very angle-proof chock full of misdirection, and deceptive handling. Not the typical silk vanish. I have been performing this version for 25 years because ... it is different. This silk vanish throws everyone off of the scent of the thumb tip.

Edition 2.5 2023; video 14:13

A collection of visual magic to add to your standup act.

• Dedication
• Author
• Foreword
• Candle Shell
• Candle Ring: With this setup, a Fantasio vanishing candle can be held at the middle and tossed from hand to hand, and then instantly vanished. This has been reprinted from my book Stage Cool.
• Color Change: A white, lit candle changes quite spectacularly into a red candle. The color change is done openly and it is very startling to the audience.
• Pocket Scarf Vanish: A red pocket scarf is placed in front of a red candle. The scarf magically adheres to the candle. In a flash, the pocket scarf...

Bob Farmer has gimmicked, treated, and modified playing cards for decades to achieve his various clever effects using gimmicked and gaffed decks and cards. He has collected a number of very useful ways to treat cards for various purposes. This manuscript outlines several processes and procedures and informs you about all the necessary tools and supplies and where to get them.

Included is Bob's Hallucination 2.0 effect which is an improvement of Eddie Clever's Hallucination routine first published in the Jinx in November 1934.

• INTRODUCTION
• PACKET TRICKS
  • Step 1: Protective Spray
  • Step 2: Ptfe Powder ...

• Jack-In-The-Box: A playing card is selected by a spectator and ripped into four pieces. The pieces are paper clipped and set on top of a jack-in-the-box. The handle is turned, the familiar tune played, and the clown pops up. When he does, the selected card appears fully restored in the clown's hands.
• Silver Fire: When the magician lights a cigarette lighter, a half dollar appears. Light it again, and the coin vanishes. Light the lighter a third time, and the half-dollar reappears from within a cigar tube.
• Les Fleurs: A bouquet of flowers magically appears in the magician's top hat. With...

• Safety Catch
• Candle To Streamers: An 18” lit, white candle changes into a brilliant burst of white paper throw streamers.
• Candle To Sword: An 18” white candle is lit. In a shower of sparks, it magically changes into a 36” gleaming Chinese sword.
• Candle To Fan: An 18” white candle vanishes in a sparkle of light, turning into a 24” Chinese dragon fan that dramatically opens in a shower of confetti.
• Invisiclip
• Invisiclip: Torn & Restored Card: A playing card is selected and ripped into four pieces. The pieces are paper clipped together. A magical wave of the hand, and the pieces...

Twelve tried, tested and proven, practical tricks that you will delight in using in your club and stage shows.

The apparatus requires no complicated mechanical ability to produce. Nor is great skill required to perform. Previously sold for the equivalent of more than $16.00 in today's money.

Contents:

Silversion: A borrowed coin is passed into a hermetically sealed bottle. Both may be examined.

Cheerio Glass: A complete disappearance of a 4-inch tumbler. No trick tables or tubes.

Squaring the Square: A unique effect with a piece of paper and a pair of scissors.

Count of Monte...

A simple system of memorizing playing cards.

You can memorize quickly at sight every card in the sequence played and know the cards in each trick and what cards have not been played. Excerpt from the introduction:

• The Advantage Of Card Memory
• The Laws Of...

The performer chooses three spectators from the audience and asks them to choose numbers. There are so many effects like this. The news is that, finally, I managed to insert the Fibonacci series into an effect. Then I had to work on the screenplay to avoid noticing the only moment in which I "see" the audience numbers: but I think I succeeded.

Basically, for collaborators and the public, I give them a sheet, I have them write numbers, and then do various calculations; at the end, I use the number they obtained for other calculations, using a second principle. In the end, if I've been a...

A video catalog of 18 of Michael's top-selling magic effects. Demonstrations only. The effects presented are:

• Animated Origami Bill
• Beach Memories
• Big Coins
• Candle Rewind
• Cane Fire
• Chinese Appearing Sword
• Chinese Fans
• Chinese Lucky Envelope
• Cool Coil and Silver Coil
• Fanfire
• Firefall
• Fire Flower Rose Coil
• Fire to Silk
• Hot Coil
• Spitfire
• Sponge Poker
• 20-oz Production

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Hints, aids and appliances for the professional and amateur magician.

These small "aids" to the magician appeared in early numbers of The Magic Wand. Covering many branches of the art, it is hoped that the various gadgets may prove of service. The publisher again expresses his thanks to the contributors who devised, and used, the appliances.

• Cards
  • Wire Stands and Supports
  • Card Indicator
  • Card Discovery
  • Card Standing on Edge
  • Card Reading
  • Quite an Old Trick
  • A Card Vanish
  • A Card Trick
  • An Easy Card Trick
• Coins
  • A Coin Producing Fake
  • Vanishing Penny
  • Coin Box
  • A Coin Move
  • A Coin and a Tumbler ...