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Hanky Panky
by Wiljalba Frikell

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Hanky Panky by Wiljalba Frikell

This is a substantial collection of magic tricks in a wide variety of categories, including puzzles, stunts, and science experiments.

  • Preliminary
  • I.—Simple Tricks
    • Fly Away, Jack!
    • Dance, Boatman, Dance!
    • Buy A Bird
    • Little Watchman
    • To Add Five To Six And Yet Make But Nine
    • To Carry Hot Coals In The Hand
  • II.—Simple Tricks With Coins
    • The Coin Trick, From An Hibernian Point Of View
    • The New Trick Of Melting Money
    • To Reduce A Shilling To A Sixpence
    • The Uncrushable Flower
    • The Flying Cotton Reel
    • The Obedient Sixpence
    • The Invisible Transit
    • The Die And Dove Trick
    • The Coin Wand
    • The Garland Of Roses
    • The Bewitched Picture-Frame
    • The Gueridon And Golden Rain
  • III.—Simple Tricks With Rope And String
    • The Skipping-Rope Trick
    • To Restore A Cut String
    • To Cut The Braid Of A Buttonhole Without Leaving A Mark
    • The Demon Cord
    • To Tie A Knot On One Wrist Without The Touch Of The Other Hand
    • To Cut Your Nose Off With A String
    • The Marvellous Release
    • The Magic Untying
    • Robert Houdin’s Famous Rabbit Trick
    • The Magic Picture Frame And Vanishing Playing Cards
    • The Magic Flower, Appearing And Blooming At Command
  • IV.—Simple Tricks With Handkerchiefs
    • The Melting Egg And The Bewitched Handkerchief
    • To Undo A Knotted Handkerchief By A Shake
    • The Handkerchief And Egg Trick
  • V.—Simple Tricks With Rings
    • The Penetrative Ring
    • The Ring And Glove Pillar
  • VI.—Simple Tricks With Knives
    • The Obedient Knife
  • VII.—Fortune Telling Tricks
    • Catches And Quibbles
    • Address On A Letter
    • Algebraic Squaring Of The Circle
    • A Bunch Of Anagrams
    • The Grammatical Word
    • Hanky Panky To His Nieces, With A Set Of Chessmen
    • The Alphabetical Fortune Teller
    • To Guess The Points Thrown With Dice
    • Arithmetical Fortune Telling
  • VIII.—Simple Tricks With Boxes
    • The Magic Table And Sealed Casket
    • The 100 Rings Of Smoke
    • To Introduce Cigar Smoke Into An Air-Tight Vase
  • IX.—Simple Tricks With Hats
    • The Magician’s Birdcage
    • The Garden Hat; Or, Flowers Growing Visibly In A Hat
    • To Run The Finger Through A Hat And Yet Return It Intact
  • X.—Tricks In Drawing, Writing, Painting, &c
    • To Take A Portrait In Three Minutes
    • A Rembrandt Etching In Five Minutes
    • The One-Eared Hares
    • The Shade Of Napoleon Visiting His Tomb
    • Doing A Goose In The Turn Of A Hand
    • Vapourgraphic Pictures
    • Changeable Pictures
    • Magic Drawing
    • Transparencies
    • Movable Transparencies
    • To Write On Wood
    • The Pig’s-Eye Game
    • Everlasting Writing On Glass
    • Moss Pictures
    • The Punctuation Puzzle
    • Oil Pictures
  • XI.—Amusing Tricks With Various Articles
    • To Divide A Horseshoe Into Seven Pieces By Two Cuts
    • To Make An Anti-Macassar Of A Sheet Of Paper
    • Sympathetic Currents Of Divination
    • The Turning Shears
    • The Simulacrum
    • Primitive Wolf Trap
    • The Celebrated Honey-Bee Trick
    • To Protect A House From Rats And Mice
    • To Show The Future In A Pail Of Water
    • The Intelligent Parrot
    • Cloves
    • Dandelion Ring Chains
    • Immortelles
    • The Political Teetotum
    • Orthographical Dice
    • The Hexagon
    • The Magic Octagon
    • The Parallelogram
    • Mock Laces
    • To Cut Out A Cross
    • The Magician’s Spell
    • Cherry-Stone Baskets
    • Hanky Panky Burglar Alarm
    • Mock Turtle
    • Mystic Changes In Costume
    • The Animated Crystal
    • The Spineless Giantess
    • To Colour Agates
    • Card Castle
  • XII.—Interludes, Puzzles, &c
    • Puzzles
    • To Form A Square
    • A Square Of Four Pieces
    • A Square Of Seventeen Squares
    • The Oval Puzzle
    • Checker Puzzle
    • The Undetachable Cylinder
    • Triumphant Column
    • A Pretty Trick In Balancing
    • The Angular Puzzle
    • The Posts And Paddock Puzzles
    • The Landlord Tricked
    • The Divided Orchards
    • The Oblong Puzzle
    • The One-Quarterless Square
    • Counter Puzzle
  • XIII.—Tricks In The Water
    • The Fane Of Aquarius
    • Water Rising Above Its Level
    • Water In Perpetual Motion
    • To Place Twenty Shillings In A Wine-Glass
    • The Hydraulic Dancer
  • XIV.—Tricks With Musical And Other Sounds
    • Hints For Public Speakers
    • The Meridian Alarum
    • Musical Water
    • The Aeolian Whistle
    • Simple Aeolian Harp
    • To Play On Two Whistles At Once
    • Echoes
    • Whispering Galleries
    • The Intelligent Echo
    • To Shiver Glasses By Singing
    • The Wooden Harmonicon
    • The Stone Harmonicon
    • The Lyre With A Good Memory
    • The Tartini Fiddle Trick
    • The Demon Violin
    • Practical Jokes In The Orchestra
    • Theatrical Thunder
    • To Imitate The Crash Of A Thunderbolt Striking
    • The Crash Bag
    • To Imitate Rain And Hail
  • XV.—Tricks With Wind And Air
    • Inflammable Air
    • Curious Vivification
    • Fiery Shower
    • The Coin And Wine-Glass Puzzle
    • The Weather Prophets
    • The Dancer On An Invisible Mountain
  • XVI.—Electrical Tricks
    • The Continuous Chime
    • Simple Electroscope
    • The Obedient Brownie
    • The Feather Pendulum
    • The Magnetic Fox-Hunt
    • The Spirit Drum
  • XVII.—Tricks With Fire And Heat
    • The Fountain Of Fire
    • Light On The Water
    • Spontaneous Combustion
    • The Pillar Of Fire
    • The Miniature Mount Vesuvius
    • A Fire Of Tin
    • The Diving Light
    • To Decorate Metal
    • Fire From Two Cold Liquids
    • A Great Flame
    • Fire By Percussion
    • The Dancing Flame
    • Fire From Wood
    • Harmless Explosion
    • Gunpowder Ignited Without Explosion
    • Salamander Paper
    • Fire-Proofing Oneself
    • Different Temperature Of Water In The Same Vessel
    • The Magic Fluid
    • Blue To White
    • Heat In Power
    • Green To Black
    • Colours Vanishing And Reappearing
    • Red To Purple, Green, And Crimson
    • Enchanted Tapers
    • The Inextinguishable Candle
    • The Frozen Candle
    • Black More Luminous Than White
    • Invisible Combustion
    • Dazzling Light
    • Walking On Burning Coals
    • The Diving Lights
    • The Sympathetic Lamp
    • Proof That Flame Is Hollow
    • Magic Lamp
    • To Burn The Poker In The Candle
    • Fire For Amateur Theatricals
    • A Lamp Without Flame
    • Rays Of The Sun
    • Common Gas
    • The Fairy Iris
    • The Cold Liquid Becoming Solid Under Heat
    • Invisible Gases Make A Solid
    • Gases Make A Liquid
    • Chemical Curiosity
  • XVIII.—Optical Tricks
    • The Illusion Of Subtraction
    • Variation
    • Coloured Glasses In Fogs
    • Japanese Mystic Mirrors
    • Transfiguration Pictures
    • Subjects
    • The Eidotrope
    • Writing On The Wall
    • The Theatre With The Curtain Down And Up
    • The Magic Inversion
    • The Pretended Endless Arcade
    • The Witches’ Dance
    • Penetrative Sight
    • The Blind Spot In The Eye
    • The Bewitched Playing-Card
    • The Magic Cube-Box
    • Yellow And Blue Do Not Make Green
    • The Magic Temple
    • Thaumatrope, Or Wonder Turner
    • The Arcade Of Verdure
    • The Perspective Glass
    • The Enchanted Looking-Glass
    • The Ocular And Olfactory Harpsichord
    • Shadows On The Wall
    • Irregular Profiles Forming Symmetrical Shadows
    • Chinese Shadows
    • Anamorphoses; Or, Distorted Figures
    • Optical Fireworks
    • To Give Motion
    • The Sultan’s Summer Palace Illuminated
    • The Penetrative Eyeglass
    • The Polemoscope
    • The Head Decapitated And Floating In The Air Three Yards From The Body
    • The Illuminated Head Of Isis
    • A Night Watch Lamp
    • Double-Coloured Reflection
    • The Phantom Flower
    • The Magic Cameras
    • The Image Like Life
    • The Nostradamus Trick
    • Proteus. The Incredible Transformation
    • The Enchanted Telescope
    • The Head Of John The Baptist
    • The Dagger Of Macbeth
    • The Ghost Illusion
    • The Saint’s Head In A Glory
  • XIX.—Complicated Tricks In Mechanical Magic
    • The Potato Mannikin
    • A Masquerade Trick
    • The Comic Anatomist And Dancing Bogie
    • The Gyroscope
    • Experiment With The Gyroscope
    • The Highflyer
    • The Mechanical Aerostat
    • Artificial Snakes
    • The Piping Bullfinch
    • The Wonderful Well
    • The Twin Singing-Birds
    • The Automaton Artist And Writer
    • The Automaton Performer On The Horizontal Bar
    • The Automaton Tumbler
    • The Automaton Flute-Player
    • The Automaton Drummer
  • XX. —Tricks With Cards, Dice, Dominoes, &c
    • The Garcia Slip, Or Tour D’hombourg
    • To Tell A Card Thought Of
    • To Guess The Spots On A Card
    • To Tell Two Cards Out Of Twenty
    • To Bring All The Cards Of The Same Kind Together
    • The Four Indivisible Kings
    • To Guess Cards Selected By Several Persons
    • A New Three-Card Trick
    • To Tell The Spots On All The Bottom Cards Of Several Heaps
    • To Name All The Cards Of A Pack
    • Even Or Odd
    • To Tell The Spots On Selected Cards
    • To Tell A Chosen Card Of Four
    • Topsy Turvy
    • The Conjuror’s Card Castle
    • Odd Or Even
    • Mysterious Trick Of Thirty-Six Cards. Telling The Card You Look At Without Seeing The Pack
    • The Four Associates
    • How To Change Cards To Pictures
    • Magic Disappearance
    • Sixteen Cards Being In Two Rows, To Find That Which A Person Has Thought Of
    • A Certain Number Of Cards Being Shown To A Person, To Guess That Which He Has Thought Of
    • The Restorative Card
    • The Four Confederate Cards
    • The Magic Pocket-Book
    • To Guess Several Drawn Cards
    • The Butcher’s Grip, Or “Hold It Fast”
    • To Prevent Any One Drawing A Card Which You Hold Up Plainly Before Him
    • The Recoverable Card
    • A Pack Of Cards Kept Together In The Air
    • To Change A Card By Word Of Command
    • To Place The Four Knaves Upon One Another So That Only The Upper Half Of Each Card Is Visible
    • To Change Five Kings Into Five Queens
    • The Shuffled Ten
    • The Mystic Change
    • To Separate A Chosen Card From The Pack At A Blow
    • Knocking A Card Out Of The Pack
    • To Name Every Card In A Pack Successively Turned Up By A Second Party
    • To Win Every Trick At Whist
    • To Tell What Card A Person Thinks Upon
    • How To Deliver Out Four Aces, And Convert Them To Four Knaves
    • To Tell A Selected Card, Without Seeing It Till You Find It In The Pack
    • To Name The Number Of Cards That A Person Shall Take Out Of The Pack
    • The Card In The Mirror
    • The Divining Spy-Glass
    • The Cards In The Opera-Glass
    • To Tell The Cards By Their Weight
    • To Discover A Selected Card By A Throw Of A Die
    • To Place Nine Cards In Ten Rows Of Three Each
    • To Name Several Chosen Cards Out Of A Pack Divided Into Two Heaps
    • To Make Two Persons Draw The Same Card Out Of Two Packs
    • To Produce A Card Without Seeing The Pack
    • How To Keep A Roadside Inn
    • To Tell Four Cards In A Looking-Glass
    • The Century Of Cards
    • The Nine Digits
    • To Divide The Red Cards From The Black By A Single Cut Of The Pack
    • The Card Of One Colour Found In A Pack Of The Other
    • To Impale A Card
    • Cards Told By Poetical Inspiration
    • The Card Nailed To The Wall With A Pistol-Shot
    • The Cards In Tea-Caddies
    • The Cards Named, Discovered With The Eyes Blinded
    • The Card Springing Up Into The Air, From The Pack, Without Being Touched
    • To Show A Card Chosen By The Audience In A Dark Room
    • The Double Confederates
    • Finale To A Card Trick
    • Jack Tar’s Prayer-Book, Or The Comprehensive Cards
  • Appendix. Gamblers’ Tricks With Cards, Exposed And Explained
    • Gamblers’ Preparation Or Doctoring Of Cards
    • Reflectors
    • The Longs And Shorts
    • Sauter La Coupe, Or Slipping The Cards
    • Convex And Concave Cards
    • Handling The Cards
    • “Garretting”
    • Walking The Pegs
    • The Bridge; Or, “The Old Gentleman”
    • Skinning
    • Shuffling Or Weaving
    • The Gradus, Or Step
    • Slipping The Fives
    • Saddling The Cards
    • Dealing From The Bottom
    • Stealing Out Cards, And Palming
    • Cutting, Shuffling, Dealing, Stealing, &c
    • Diamond Cut Diamond
    • Gamblers’ Means Of Secret Communication
    • Tricks And Roulette
    • English Roulette
    • Rouge-Et-Noir, Or, Trente Et Quarante

1st edition 1875, 328 pages; PDF 253 pages.
word count: 72215 which is equivalent to 288 standard pages of text


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