Magic & Conjuring: page 200

NOTE: Matchbooks packets are sold in boxes of 50 in some grocery stores and tobacco shops. They are readily available on Amazon.com and eBay.com. Bars that still allow smoking often have FREE advertising matchbooks. Hotels that have smoking rooms often have matchbooks at the front desk.

This is #2 in Devin Knight's Forgotten Magic Series. The first release in the series was Unknown Forces.

Flame Revelation was invented and used by mediums in the early 20s according to Al Mann. Mediums claimed that spirits of the dead were often in fire. The technique was used as a form of spirit writing to prove contact with...

Shadow is a great utility prop that you make yourself for less than about $13! With Shadow you can switch cards, billets, money, or anything else you can think of. It can be used in mentalism routines to bring in a prediction; you can also make vanished objects appear in an impossible location. You are really limited only by your imagination.

Not only do you get very detailed instructions on how to make this prop (it takes about 3 minutes or so) and handling techniques, but you also get a hard-hitting routine that David uses as a closer in his formal close up performances. The routine is...

Introduce your business cards or credit cards in a fun new way.

EMERGE
Your Business Card / Credit Card or a Playing Card eerily emerges out of the inside compartment. [One time setup and you are good to go for hundreds of performances. The speed is completely under your control. Resets Instantly.]

CARD DART
Your Business Card / Credit Card jumps out of wallet. [Even for the laziest person set-up will takes less than 10 seconds]

Works with any regular bi-fold wallet. You can keep all your stuff in there and still perform these. Also included in the explanation is CARD DART II which is an impromptu take on it's earlier version.

(For the PDF please check your digital shelf.)

1st edition 2015, length 18 minutes....

This magazine ran from October 1989 until January 1998 - a total of 100 issues and 1440 pages. It includes news, advice, interviews, reviews, performer profiles and a lot more. You will not find that many tricks in it, but the guest columns by Australian and international performers are great. Editor in chief was Tim Ellis. It is a great way to learn more about the magic scene in Australia during that time.

1st digital edition 2015, 1443 pages.

From the introduction:

This ebook teaches lots of simple tricks. Learn to read people's mind and predict the combination of a lock. Push your thumb through your ear and melt away a knot. Read its powerful secrets and master skills within the art. For with knowledge comes great power and this ebook is where you start.

1. Floating Sausage
2. Shrinking Finger
3. Hole in your Hand
4. Thumb Through Ear
5. Legs Through the Floor
6. Colour Prediction
7. Two into One
8. Mind Reading Cards
9. Clipped Card
10. Telekinetic Straw
11. Suspended Pencil
12. Rubber Pencil
13. Rising Ring
14. Jumping Ring
15. The Grid
16. Floating Ball
17. Straw Through Straw
18. Lucky Lotto ...

This ebook contains bets, puzzles, games and challenges that you can use to entertain, amuse and be the life of the party. Learn how to make metal float on water. How to turn a drink upside down without spilling a drop. How to balance a glass on a note. How to lift a bottle with a straw. How to inflate a bag in one breath. Along with many, many more!

1. Bridge Building
2. Balancing Fork
3. Odd Coin Challenge
4. Blown Away
5. Alternating Drinks
6. Lift Without Touching
7. Drink Turnover
8. Mousetrap
9. Cork to Glass
10. Cup Lift
11. The Drop
12. Balance a Glass on a Banknote
13. Thumbs Down, Thumbs Up
14. Floating Paperclip ...

A lovely digital reproduction of a book from England describing a range of card moves. It is profusely illustrated and very clearly describes all basic card moves and many specialties. Twenty chapters deal with subjects such as: The Pass, Location, Palming and Forcing, False Cuts, False Shuffles, False Counts, The Double Lift, Top and Bottom Change, Glide and Slip, Glimpse and Peek, Reversing Cards, Flourishes, Fanning, Front and Back Palm, etc. Learn the right way to do these sleights.

Other chapters deal with Presentation, Card Climaxes, Patter, Color Changes, Mental and Gambling Effects....

This manuscript describes fifty close-up tricks, gags and stunts with coins - none of which require sleights. Many new ideas are employed - including new dodges that open up a new field. Every magician should be able to perform one or two coin tricks. Choose from the many in this manuscript.

PDF 6 pages

• Introduction
• The Mystic Seven
• A Reverse Problem
• Behind The Back
• "Mirable Visu"
• The Four Hands
• Cutting The Cards
• By The Toss Of A Coin
• The Betraying Voice
• The Personality Card Trick
• The Caronia Mystery
• The "Colon" Mystery
• Not Quite Balanced

1st edition 1952; PDF 14 pages

With this flexible system or combination of principles, you will be able to create your own effects like this one: Example of effect:

"Do you think you are influenceable? I bet you are..."

You show a business card with the five ESP symbols. The spectator freely points to one of them. This is the one you predicted.

• The basic effect is not new, but it is that direct and quick: They announce their choice, and you conclude.
• There is apparently no 'process', no force, no fumbling, etc. in between.
• It uses common objects (pen, index card/paper, etc.).
• Any patter or presentation can be...

More new math-based and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Mathematics
• ESP Fibs
• Alea
• Either - Or
• 2 x 4
• Perfect
• Pyramidal
• What Do You Guess?
• Guess vs. Know vs. Trick
• ESP Roll 2
• Seven
• Singled Out
• Curious Queen
• Over And Over Again
• Counterparts
• Good Team Players
• 1 Year And 2 Days
• Joe's Diploma Piece
• Luck Squared
• x x x

1st edition 2015, 30 pages.

This magazine on mentalism ran from October 1951 until June 1965, for a total of 48 issues. This particular digital version has both the original first three numbers as well as the later reprinted first three numbers.

Psycho-Gizmo including Psycho
Psycho - 3 issues - (no dates - 1951?) - Albany, KY
Psycho-Gizmo (sometimes published simply as Psycho) - September 1951 - June 1965 - Albany, KY
Teral Garrett, editor and publisher

125 pages (page numbers refer to the pages in the PDF)

1. Psycho - Number 1 - 4 pages
1. Dr. Jaks' Simple Single Reading
2. Silk Vision - Richard Weibel
2. G. W. Hunter...

Important: These are not plans for making this yourself. These are the directions that came with this trick when it was on the market for $2695.00 in the early 2000s. This PDF is designed for collectors who may have the prop, but no directions, magic historians, and those simply curious as to how this trick was done. The trick still shows up on eBay, magic flea markets and auctions.

Effect: Are you tired of floating boards that a girl just happens to be laying on? Too many suspensions and levitations suffer from this weakness. The supports are removed and the board floats along with the girl....

Important: These are not plans for making this yourself. These are the directions that came with this trick when it was on the market for $395.00. This PDF is designed for collectors who may have the prop, but no directions, magic historians, and those simply curious as to how this trick was done. The trick still shows up on eBay, magic flea markets and auctions. If you need the directions, then here they are.

One of the most impossible and classiest milk in light bulb effects you will ever see. The base is spiral and see-through so there appears to be no place to hide a gimmick.

The...

Important: These are not plans for making this yourself. These are the directions that came with this trick when it was on the market for $495.00 in the early 2000s. This PDF is designed for collectors who may have the prop, but no directions, magic historians, and those simply curious as to how this trick was done. The trick still shows up on eBay, magic flea markets and auctions. If you need the directions, then here they are.

EFFECT: A very unusual time reversal illusion. A six-foot high wooden frame shaped like an hour glass with steel spikes going through the frame is shown to the audience....

Important: These are not plans for making this yourself. These are the directions that came with this trick when it was on the market for $450.00 in the early 2000s. This PDF is designed for collectors who may have the prop, but no directions, magic historians, and those simply curious as to how this trick was done. The trick still shows up on eBay, magic flea markets and auctions. If you need the directions, then here they are. Devin Knight, Abbott Magic and Supreme Magic all released versions of this effect. They all work the same way, these instructions apply to any model you may own.

Effect:...

More than 25 tricks, tips, and ideas for performing with live as well as life-like rubber doves. Tricks for TV, nightclubs, schools and theaters. If you are a dove worker, you can't afford not to own this wonderful, exciting ebook.

• "About The Doves"
• The Classic Glove To Dove
• Technicolor Doves
• Passe-Passe Doves
• Hypnotizing A Dove
• Challenge Vanish
• Air Mail Dove
• The Dove In The Balloon
• Cone And Dove
• The Supreme Gimmick
• Bags Of Doves
• Cane To Dove
• Mexican Doves
• Jap Doves
• Blackstone's Vanish
• Dove From Newspaper
• Devil's Dove
• The Doves From The Hat
• Silken Dove
• Crystal Dove Bag ...

A Thought Well Stolen combines two of magic's great card effects - Any Card At Any Number, and Paul Curry's Out Of This World - into a wicked hybrid; morphing them into a mind-blowing frenzy. Can you even imagine what this resultant offspring would look like?

As in Any Card At Any Number, the performer reveals the identity of a freely though-of card - and its position in a deck - without asking a single question. Seriously, this is solid and gripping mentalism; there is no force, the card is a free mental selection and no questions are asked. Having read his spectator's mind, discerning his card and its position in the deck, the performer...

This ebook examines all the markets, promotional material, advertising methods and business strategies in finding, getting and keeping work as a professional magician.

This updated 2020 ebook contains 761 A4 pages with 242 chapters reflecting on the current markets and new information since its was first published in 2015. It also includes new chapters on Comparison sites and Virtual shows.

There is an accompanying video recorded in 2015, lasting 2 hours, 25 minutes discussing some of the key chapters within the initial publication.

He reveals everything from how much performers are...

• A Letter from the Editor by Michael Jay
• Letters to the Editor: Readers Write
• Fallen Heroes by Mark Williams
• Handkerchief Force Variations by Barry Cooper
• Improper Procedure by Dave Wyton
• Chavracadabra: The Decline of the Magician by Gary Scott
• Stop Drinking the Magic Kool Aide by Denny Haney
• Darren Romeo - A Review by Jon A. Hand
• Royal Revelation by Craig Chadwick
• The Magician - A Novel by Michael Jay
• Bizarre Bursary
• A Sure Thing by Weepin' Willie
• My First Dollar by The Very Reverend S Ulysses Wainwright
• Visionary Reflections from the Secret Laboratory of the Nyama Possessor ...

Including covers, contents page and suchlike, Cards In Here is a 64 page ebook of card stuff. More than two dozen tricks, ideas, thoughts and whatnot to titillate the palate. Nothing complicated, no knucklebusters, no outlandish gimmicks, just simple down-home pasteboardian foolishness.

More than enough to put the anti-card brigade into a serious coma, but good fun for the rest of us.

Contents

• Accelerace
• Abacuts
• Spin Flash Pass
• CoCoCuts
• Card Courting
• Counting Thoughts
• Pick Your Pick
• CatoPresto
• Hocus Cato Presto
• Double Identify
• A Short Spell Of Aces
• Spell To Suit
• SuitAl Spell ...

A classic text that exposes the actual methods employed by fraudulent mediums and psychics!

Written by a lawman-turned psychic detective, this is the real work that lays bare how unscrupulous operators fleeced their victims while posing as mediums and spirit guides. Robert A. Nelson, purveyor of all things psychic, praised this work in his early catalogs.

Descriptions and methods described include:

• Spirit Paintings
• Spirit Table that Talks
• Mental Thought Projection in Lighted Room
• Producing Spirits in Vacant Room
• Materalization Seance
• Mental Telepathy - Second Sight Reading
• Parlor Clairvoyance ...

This is a new Any Card at Any Number effect in which (apparently) the spectator does all of the work, and it happens all in his hands. Not only that, but the performer has predicted the entire outcome; the card and the number, far in advance! This is all true. The performer never touches the deck once the effect begins.

Here is the effect as the audience sees it: The deck is shuffled by a spectator. The performer has any spectator think of any number between one and fifty-two, but not to reveal it to anyone until asked by the performer. Nothing is written down. The number is simply thought...