Dariel Fitzkee

A detailed analytical treatment of the principles and methods. Explores the psychological basis and its adaptation to the performance of magic. Many detailed ruses included covering the entire field. How to develop misdirection to fit all situations. What it is and how it works. The first concrete work on a subject that is common to all effects and all performers.

• ALDEBERONTICITISFICIFORMLO, ALSO ABRACADABRA
• SHEPHERD'S GLASS TRICK
• "OH, I DIDN'T WANT YOU TO LOOK AT IT!"
• THE LEVITATION
• MISDIRECTION
• THE INGREDIENTS OF MISDIRECTION ...

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...

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...

1st edition 1929, PDF 31 pages; illustrated

3. Contents
4. Preface
5. Giant Cards
6. My Own Pass
7. My Own Pass
8. The Pack
8. A Stripper Principle
9. An Added Feature
10. Two Reversing Ideas
10. Handling The Giant Cards
10. Shuffling Giant Cards
11. The Riffle Shuffle
11. A Reversing Principal
12. Riffle Shuffle
12. Springing The Cards
13. Other Flourishes
14. The Snap
14. Other Sleights
15. Another Pass
15. The Screened Vanish
17. To Regain Card
17. The...

34 pages

3. Contents
4. Preface
6. The Old Routine
8. Methods Of Gaining Possession Of Concealed Key Ring
8. The Box Method
8. The Japanese Basket
8. The Newspaper
9. The Table
9. The Handkerchief
9. Other Concealments
9. Body Concealment
11. The Oriental Rings
12. The Apparatus
12. Preparation
13. The Presentation
13. The Wrist Count
14. The Drop Count
14. The Single Ring Count
16. An Exchange
17. A Namreh Solid Ring Move
17. The Clash Link
19. Key Steal
19. Laurant's Clash
21. Triple Chain Substitution
23. To Remove The Center From The Triple Chain
24. The...

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

5. Introduction. By C. A. George Newmann.
6. Preface. By Dariel Fitzkee.
9. Chapter One
12. Chapter Two
18. Chapter Three
25. Chapter Four.
32. Chapter Five
36. Chapter Six