Magic & Conjuring

Both ebooks include original tricks using previously unreleased VR Stack Pro, which is explained in detail.

Entrambi gli ebooks includono effetti originali che utilizzano l’inedito VR STACK PRO, spiegato nel dettaglio all’interno.

EFFECTS

• Ryan Schlutz (author of False Anchors and Unanchored), presents RNG, his updated take on Card at Any Sum.
• A returning contributor to the magazine, Bill Citino shares his routine Making a Difference, a new variation of a Scott Robinson routine.
• A Nightmare in Red and Blue by Scott Baird, which is an improved handling of an old Don Nielson and Karl Fulves trick from Pallbearer's Review. I also teach my Flash Ribbon effect later in the issue.
• June is also Tomás Giammarco's first appearance in The Hermit, and he shares his routine Strange Concordance 23332, of which I am a huge fan! It's based...

A selective history of magic squares and routines and performances which are somewhat unusual and different from the regular magic square presentation of 'give me a number and I write down a magic square of that number'.

• Brother Can You Paradigm? (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Harried History of the Magic Square
  • B.A. (Before Annemann)
  • 1930 – Present
  • Wise-Guy Square
• Kick-Starters
  • Okey-Sidokey
  • Charlier Shuffle
• Miscellaneous Matrix Trix
  • Phoning Marrakech
  • Squaring the Deal
  • Upside Down
  • Cool Things about the Magic Square
  • Harry Ending
• References

1st edition 2008, PDF 31 pages....

Like the Billiard Balls, and Linking Rings the Indian Cups and Balls have become a classic of Magic. The apparatus is "designed" exclusively for Magic... (like the Linking rings), one does not come across such things in everyday life. While this may not find favour with many performers, whose idea of magic is to perform miracles with "everyday" objects,...their very design makes possible miracles of a type not possible with many other objects. For unlike Silk Cabbies, and Ghost Tubes, there is nothing fake about the apparatus itself...but their shape and construction make possible a surprising...

This intro price will go up to $12 from June 19, 2023.

The Noon Stack is the only stack in the world with three official names. It is also called the Midnight Deck or the Moon Stack. You can either start learning this stack exactly at 12 noon or exactly at 12 midnight, any day.

Okay, on a more serious note, Noon Stack is a simple algorithmic stack that forms a nice memorized deck. Given a card, you can know its position and given a position, you can know the card at that position. And literally speaking, if you start learning this stack at 12 noon (or 12 midnight), you can completely...

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...

Effects with Fantasio's vanishing and appearing candles.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Max Sterling discontinued his weekly magic journal The Magical World in May 1911. After two years he restarted it for another period less than a year long. This second series from June 14th, 1913 until February 4th, 1914, is included in this PDF, 582 pages. It is not easy to publish a weekly conjuring periodical.

Number 1 (June 4th, 1913)

• Protection
• Between Ourselves
• American Notes
• What Others are Doing - Houdini
• Practial Magic - Cut and Restored Hat
• Pithy Patter - Torn Strip of Paper
• In Open Council
• Whereabouts this Week
• Cards - A Pre-arranged Pack
• For Beginners - Handkerchief Dyeing Extraordinary ...

The presentation of a magic effect is linked to many aspects, from the personality of the performer to the type of audience, to the type of show to be staged. Mentalism is only a pretext, it lends itself better than other spells to the discussion, especially on the definition of the character, the construction of the story, on the revelation. What we will analyze is not only useful for those who want to be a mentalist, but it is a stimulus to the realization of any magical effect and to improve one's communication process, with anyone on any subject. It's a mini-course in communication/NLP...

Invisibly switch a folded playing card (bill, cash, sugar pack, ...) against another right in front of their eyes.

Destined to be in your EDC (everyday carry). A real crowd-pleaser. A perfect close-up and table-hopping effect. A very fast, angle-proof, and up-close transformation with spectator involvement. Not a thumb-tip. This effect uses a homemade gimmick that most homes would have. The gimmick takes about five minutes to make. Both playing cards can be inspected.

You can also change bills, billets, cash a check, change sugar to sweeten low, etc.

Absolutely incredible misdirection...

Stanley Krebs was very successful in revealing the fraudulent practices of spirit mediums. One of the tools he employed was a pocket mirror that he used to see what was going on under the table.

In this series of articles in Suggestion he describes various sittings and encounters with spirit mediums such as the Bangs sisters, Dr. Henry Slade, Pierrie L.O.A. Keeler, and the Campbell brothers. Included are some comments, letters, and editorials from Suggestion journal relating to this topic.

An excerpt of this material was published in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.

1st edition 1901, published in Suggestion Journal;...

Spirit materialization and fraudulent mediums.

A record of research and experiment in a much-talked-of realm of mystery, with a review and criticism of the so-called spiritualistic phenomena of spirit materialization and hints and illustration as to the possibility of artificially producing the same.

Excerpt from the author's preface:

The Bangs sisters, Miss May Bangs and Miss Lizzie Bangs worked out of an apartment in Chicago. The author describes in detail a sitting he had with one of the Bangs sisters, and how a sealed envelope placed between two slates could be 'written on by the spirits'.

Includes illustrations with detailed descriptions of the modus operandi.

This is an excerpt from a series of articles in Suggestion journal.

1st edition 1901, published in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research; PDF 11 pages.

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...

Everything you need for Halloween: effects, ideas, further resources on the Halloween theme.

This tome-let is broken down into three categories:

1. Tricks that are fully fleshed out.
2. Theme / Prop ideas and resources to customize your existing repertoire.
3. A quasi-bibliography of sorts listing Halloween effects, books, etc. from other creators.

Included throughout will be some effects that I've published elsewhere. I've culled a few ideas and effects from several of my other works and brought it all together into one little resource. You'll find that the "scary" type of effects pull...

A series of novel and above all entertaining card tricks, all requiring a minimum of skill, the simplest of apparatus and all designed for the maximum entertainment and audience appeal.

No. 1. "A Double-Dose": Predestined and Black and Red Computation II.

Two effects, both using the same subtle principle, credited to Nick Trost.

PREDESTINED is for platform performances. You can use a Jumbo pack of cards and four cardboard plates. You will make this up in a few minutes and have a good program item. The working is simplicity itself but, being more interested in the presentation possibilities...

The dye tube reimagined. The silk color change is no longer stale and boring.

The Dye Tube is Devious: "What? The old Dye Tube? Devious? Most magicians will say no the dye tube is not even remotely devious. It is stale, boring, and blaaa."

I say yes, the dye tube is incredibly devious when handled differently than the traditional handling of the last 100 years. Let's make your dye tube a valued part of your EDC Every Day Carry again.

Devious is defined as insidious, deceitful, not straightforward; shifty or crooked. Imagine professional magicians using these terms to describe your...

A super visual vanish. A clean and most visual disappearance. A new method that will show a card with a hole on both sides.

Note: TV rights not included with purchase. Please contact Sultan Orazaly for TV rights.

1st edition 2023, video 22:52.

A card stab is performed using Mr. Potato Head, and his sombrero is the knife. Mr. Potato Head then doubles as the infamous mindreader, Idaho the Great. The magician is enraged when Idaho fails to name the selected card, so the magician retaliates by mashing him into the selected card. A most unusual card revelation.

You will need:

• two Mr. Potato Heads (available at most toy stores in the Preschool Section)
• two boxes of mashed potato flakes (16-oz. size)
• a razor blade
• knife
• a jumbo (5" X 7") Five of Clubs
• a regular deck of cards
• rubber cement
• a handheld potato masher
• a hand towel ...

Invisiblair is a coin holdout with improvements. It is made of a synthetic material that is invisible even closeup. You will receive instructions on how to make this holdout, not the holdout itself. The hookup and basics of making a coin appear and vanish are described but no larger routines. For effects and routines with Invisiblair see Michael's other publications.

1st edition 1985, PDF 2 pages.

One single prediction card is placed face down in view to one side. Five different ESP symbol cards are openly displayed and then shuffled. A spectator is invited to freely nominate the first, second, third, fourth or fifth card in the pile. His choice is dropped out onto the table and the faces of the other cards are displayed. When the selection is compared to the prediction card, they match!

No force, this is direct and straightforward to perform and is very quick to re-set.

video 8:45

A red sponge ball is displayed openly, both the performer's hands being clearly seen to be otherwise empty. Curling his left hand into a loose fist, the magician pushes the red sponge ball inside and then blows on the hand. Immediately the fist is opened to reveal the ball has changed to yellow and both hands are once again genuinely empty.

This simple effect includes a principle that you will be able to use in many other effects. No gimmicks are required.

video 3:57

This intro price will go up to $18 from June 19, 2023.

From Unsign to Sunsign, Unmask the Unusual.

Unsign is a very special star sign divination effect that uses an innovative novel principle and a brand new method for the first time in the history of star sign revelations.

A single card (business card or poker card size) is used to reveal the star sign of a stranger. This card is freely examinable before, during and after the routine. And you can repeat the effect instantly for different participants, with different outcomes, of course.

As part of the process which takes under...

Three keychain gimmicks for the price of two.

This intro price will go up to $30 from June 19, 2023.

This is a physical product that will be shipped to you. The ebook can be instantly downloaded from your digital shelf.

WHAT YOU GET: A set of 7 specially designed and quality printed cards that are just a bit shy of postcard size.

WHAT THIS IS: Power of Influence is a complete act of 3 killer routines which form the opener, middle and closer routines using the provided set of 7 cards.

The theme is the 'juicy' subject of Power of Influence and Sphere of Influence. The routines make use of a list of 60 different well-known personalities...

The Bammo Gridlock Dossier is a deep-dive examination into the use of matrices and grids in magic and mentalism. There has never been a book like this one and it is more than just a collection of methods: new and cutting-edge effects are included.

If you are a mentalist, you need this book.

If you are a magician looking for the latest mental effects, you need this book.

If strange effects with Tarot cards, mystical rune stones, pentagrams and playing cards fascinate you, you need this book.

If you find interesting the works of Max Maven, Karl Fulves, Simon Aronson, Sam Schwartz, John Bannon and others...

From the unsyncopated mind of Hepcat "Dizzy" Michael Breggar comes a new album of killer-diller-thriller card routines: Take Five

It's Dave Brubeck in style, Miles Davis in form, Louis Armstrong in structure, and all Michael Breggar in method and quirkiness. Mike is back with five incredible, sleight-lite masterful effects that will shake your clefs and make your audience's jaws sag while they laugh, applaud wildly, and cut a rug!

These routines are all part of Michael's current repertoire and include some that have been performed at his Magic Castle gigs.

Here's what's been waxed,...

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 ...