Magic

The Red Light System was built from real intuition and it was built in the performance arena, not sat at home writing grids of meanings for certain things. Dee does not have a fantastic memory, and he has not had much luck naturally interpreting certain oracles; but Red Light offered him an easy and very logical...

Eine unterhaltsame Routine mit Kartenspiel und Taschentuch.

Aus dem Vorwort:

Ich kenne eine ganze Anzahl Zauberkünstler, die sich der brillantesten Technik bedienen, die aber dabei leider das Wichtigste vergessen: Ihre Zuschauer zu unterhalten! Unterhaltung - oder wie man heute sagt Entertainment - steht für mich an erster Stelle! Und wenn zur Erziehlung eines Effektes mehrere Techniken zur Auswahl stehen, dann werde ich mich immer für die einfachste, oder sagen wir besser für die natürlichste entscheiden. Sie werden feststellen, daß ich schwierige Griffe auf ein Minimum reduziert...

From the introduction:

That brings me to another point. Don't be afraid of a mistake, and don't allow yourself to be discouraged by one. The best men make mistakes sometimes. Still, it is as well to guard against mistakes by rehearsals. Take one trick at a time and go over it many times until you know it thoroughly. Then - and not till then - go on to another trick. In this way you will soon build up quite a little store of...

A multi effect comedy card routine with audience participation and an unexpected climax. Cards mysteriously increase and decrease of number in magician's hands defying the laws of mathematics in a crescendo of surprises.

EFFECT

The magician fans a pack of cards to a spectator asking him to choose one and place it in his inside jacket pocket. The performer tries to read the mind of the spectator and to guess the chosen card but he fails. In desperation he slings the pack high in the air. With hardly a break, he removes some more cards from his pocket and goes straight into another trick...

The very word magic has an alluring sound, and its practice as an art will probably never lose its attractiveness for people's minds. But we must remember that there is a difference between the old magic and the new, and that both are separated by a deep chasm, which is a kind of color line, for though the latter develops from the former in a gradual and natural course of evolution, they are radically different in principle, and the new magic is irredeemably opposed to the assumptions upon which the old magic rests.

Magic originally meant priestcraft. It is probable...

Here's an entertaining, 25- to 60-minute lecture that you, the magician or mentalist, can present on the topic of scams and cons. And it's a money-maker.

Become an Expert on Cons and Swindles...
Or just talk like one. This is a new field for most magicians and mentalists, allowing you to give your lecture to civic groups, security seminars, government agencies, corporations -- anywhere people gather. And these organizations have deep pockets, too, able to pay you well for your time.

Fabled Bunco Games of History...
Now become practical, effective tricks in the magician's hands, each...

An breakdown in script format and full handling on making real magic with the Vanishing Wand using the Shell. Full construction details on making your own shells included. Performance video included.

Anyone that's ever read Tarbell has run into the Shell Wand.

An exact duplicate of a wand made from paper. But, you probably have questions.

• What do you do with it?
• Can you fool people with it?
• How do you build the duplicates?

Fast 35 Jahre arbeite ich schon im 'Psycho-Genre', und mein Mentalabend ist heuer 26 Jahre alt. Da sammelt man schon eine Reihe praktischer und theoretischer Erfahrungen, die weitergegeben werden möchten. Ich darf Dir versichern, alle hier beschriebenen Experimente probierte ich jahrelang aus, und sie erwiesen sich vor vielen Zuschauergremien unterschiedlichster Zusammensetzungen als recht effektiv.

• Vorwort
• Würfel-Telepathie
• Psychokinese mit zwei Würfeln
• Die Würfelaugen - Präkognition
• Der Super-Effekt mit dem Zettel
• Ein 'x-minus-1 - Effekt' mit drei Cardboards ...

The ideal way of learning magic is, it almost goes without saying, to obtain lessons from a magician who is not only a skilful performer but who has also the gift of teaching. The number of such magicians is small. Skilful performers there are in plenty; but the gift of teaching is a rare one. Many a man knows his subject thoroughly, yet cannot impart his knowledge to others.

This ideal way is therefore a difficult one. The learner has first to find an efficient instructor. He may be able to do so if he lives in or near one of the great cities. But if not he will...