Dariel Fitzkee

A complete text on methods, mechanical devices, moves, techniques, figures, artifices, routines, etc., for performing one of the great classics in the repertoire of magic. It includes modern improvements, suggestions and ideas, together with routines eliminating the use of the key.

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
The Effect
The Presentation
The Fundamental Methods
The Apparatus
The Arrangement of the Rings
CHAPTER TWO
The Drop Count
The Pass Count
The Wrist Count
The Odin Count
The Fitzkee Count
A Variation of the Fitzkee Small Ring Count
The Fitzkee Large Ring Count
Another Original...

2018 / 11 / 29

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The Only Six Ways to Restore a Rope (Rope Eternal)

Create your own custom versions of the popular cut and restored rope effect.

Dariel Fitzkee applied his world-renowned Trick Brain method to completely analyze and dissemble the Cut and Restored Rope effect into its basic components. Fitzkee's patient explanations and diagrams examine the six basic principles of all rope, cord and string effects, allowing the clever performer to pick and choose the methods that best fit his or her performing style to develop diabolically clever and unique rope routines.

Along the way, you'll learn the secrets to several past and present commercial rope effects that...

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Jumbo Card Manipulation

In this ebook Dariel Fitzkee translates a range of moves and sleights from regular sized cards to jumbo sized cards. You will be surprised how many moves can actually be done with jumbo cards.

1st edition 1929, PDF 31 pages; illustrated

Contents
Preface
Giant Cards
My Own Pass
My Own Pass
The Pack
A Stripper Principle
An Added Feature
Two Reversing Ideas
Handling The Giant Cards
Shuffling Giant Cards
The Riffle Shuffle
A Reversing Principal
Riffle Shuffle
Springing The Cards
Other Flourishes
The Snap
Other Sleights
Another Pass
The Screened Vanish
To Regain Card
The...

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Linking Ring Manipulation

This is an important work on linking rings. It includes Fitzkee's "The Oriental Rings" routine.

34 pages

Contents
Preface
The Old Routine
Methods Of Gaining Possession Of Concealed Key Ring
The Box Method
The Japanese Basket
The Newspaper
The Table
The Handkerchief
Other Concealments
Body Concealment
The Oriental Rings
The Apparatus
Preparation
The Presentation
The Wrist Count
The Drop Count
The Single Ring Count
An Exchange
A Namreh Solid Ring Move
The Clash Link
Key Steal
Laurant's Clash
Triple Chain Substitution
To Remove The Center From The Triple Chain
The...

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The Trick Brain

This is book two from Fitzkee's trilogy and is unlike any other book ever written on magic. It was the first book (and to my knowledge the only book) to attack magic methods from a scientific standpoint. Fitzkee develops here a classification of effects, from appearances to vanishes, and then describes a system to invent or develop new trick plots. This is an invention system. I would say it is one way to invent new trick plots. But even if you are not of the scientific sort, the classification and discussion of magic effects and methods is a tremendous resource to expand your horizon and think...

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Magic by Misdirection

This volume, book three in the trilogy, is all about the psychology in magic. Mechanics alone, a sleight or move, are not sufficient to produce a strong magic effect. Dexterity by itself is more like juggling. Only if misdirection, the psychological aspect of deception, is added into the mix, will one be able to create a truly magic experience.

There aren't many good works on misdirection. This is one of the must read ebooks, a classic in the theory of magic. A shorter but modern discussion of misdirection can be read in Pocket Power by Jarle Leirpoll.

INTRODUCTION
- Which is the cart and which is the horse ...

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Showmanship for Magicians

Dariel Fitzkee authored one of the best trilogies on magic theory. This volume, book one in the trilogy, primarily deals with theoretical aspects of a magic performance. This book has been cited numerous times and is one of the standard works every serious magician should read. Fitzkee has a very analytical mind and describes his thoughts clearly. As with any theory not everyone will agree with every detail and every suggestion. Regardless of if you fully subscribe to Fitzkee's thinking or not, there is plenty to learn from his writings.

Here is what others had to say about this book, when...

2006 / 8 / 10

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Contact Mind Reading Expanded

The original edition of this book was selected among the best books of 1935 by John Mulholland, editor of The Sphinx. Contact mind reading or 'muscle reading' is probably the next best thing to genuine mind reading. It doesn't require any gimmicks, codes or confederates. It is based on involuntary subtle clues spectators give. This is one of the best texts ever written on this subject.

1st edition, 1935; expanded edition, 1945; 38 pages.

Introduction. By C. A. George Newmann.
Preface. By Dariel Fitzkee.
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four.
Chapter Five
Chapter Six

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