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