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Learn the inner secrets of how to make a living as a mentalist or psychic entertainer. The commercial side of this highly lucrative business is revealed in its entirety: contracts, bookings, advertising and exploitation in theaters, clubs, hotels, casinos, fairs, and in private practice.

The entire range of opportunities for psychic entertainers is discussed at length, and with one thought in mind: to make money! Whether you are new in the business or a seasoned pro, this ebook will mean extra dollars to you.

If you're on the sidelines now, watching others make real money in this profession,...

The Smagorad is a legendary magick book whose very content was thought to be able to affect the course of the cosmic universe. Its secrets were believed so powerful that they could alter the natural elements.

• Dedicated To The Scribes
• Introduction
• The Dream
• The Psychic Detective
• Just In Case
• "The Shining!"
• Pop Psychology
• Divine Madness
• Nimbus
• Ekkballo!
• The "Subliminal" Force
• The Mysterious Visitor
• A "Key" Lesson...
• Cube3
• Pyrocentric Tear
• Cliptomaniac
• Post Mortem

Vol. 13, No. 1, March 2017; 60 pages
Cover: Eric Jones

5. Editor's Letter
5. What's Inside - contents
6. Eric Jones - This Charming Man - cover article/interview
12. Unforgettable - A Brief Introduction to the Power of the Memorised Deck - Mark Leveridge
15. In The News
16. Letters
18. Magic Moments - Taking a Look at the Many Altruistic Magic Projects and People Across the Globe
    • David Elkin, the Founder of MagicAid
21. Shed 7 - Caroline Ravn
22. Masterclass
    22. Tin Opener - Chris Congreave
    23. Easy Memorized Deck - Shawn Farquhar
26. On The Psychiatrist's Couch with ... Leo Smetsers - Dr. William Phipps-Clarke
28. Chris...

10 full routines with ESP, coins, cards, silks, rings, and the real secrets of performance. A video of performance and explanation for a full four coin routine is included. An essay is included about how to control your spectators and recognizing and utilizing "repeat responses" to raise the 'bar' of your performances!

TAKING CONTROL - An essay explaining how to bring your spectators under your control.

AMAZING - A little game of 'what is where' that even "fools" the magician performing it. Easy to do and impossible.

COIN(S) PRODUCTION - A cool production of four coins. Includes a video...

Constructed from a dollar bill, the butterfly begins to move in a remarkable imitation of a living creature that even appears to fly. See video below. [Note that this ebook does not include how to fold the butterfly. The ebook teaches you how to animate it as seen in the video. The original description of the fold is in Folding Money Fooling by Robert E. Neale.]

1st edition 2017, 4 pages.

With these instructions and the included artwork, you can quickly make up a fascinating magic trick to perform in children's shows about building, construction or tools. You show a folder with over 20 different tools and have a child choose just one to think of. The child never says the name of her tool out loud, but you will magically know which one she chose. Next you show seven cards that each have a picture of a toolbox. Each toolbox is filled with different tools. You set aside some toolboxes where the child sees her tool. Then you automatically know which tool the child has chosen. ...

An exciting collection of kidshow magic that focuses on bugs and books - including tricks, routines, ideas and resources to help you make your next magic show one with a theme that really appeals to kids.

• original bug tricks and routines
• bug art and bug fonts
• commercial bug magic resources
• bug prop resources
• factual bug information
• bug jokes

1st edition 2017, 68 pages.

When one of magic's most clever minds teams up with an award-winning magician and illustrator, you know the result will be unique effects that play strong and is so clever that even magicians are fooled. And that's what you get with Hahne and Berg's Here's Magic.

There is literally something for every performer within these 96 pages. Effects with cards, coins, silks, a gambler's monte effect using a single matchbook, club magic, a stage illusion that predates Copperfield's Statue of Liberty vanish by some 50 years (but with a similar method), mentalism effects, the award-winning poker chip...

• HOUDINI (Part I) The story of the escape artist who became the highest-paid performer in vaudeville. From his early days as a newsboy, to his years struggling in beer halls, sideshows, dime museums, and other lowly venues, to his success as the Handcuff King, to his rise to international fame. (His fateful encounter with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and spiritualism, and subsequent campaign against fraudulent mediums, will be the subject of Part II.)
• LARRY WEEKS A master juggler, he dwelt amidst a chaotic collection of magic memorabilia - including the sole surviving copy of The Grim Game, Houdini's...

• What is / Why PDF File?
• Des Moines Iowa Lecture
• Library Gold
• DIY Levitation
• Now What?
• Invoice Charity Show
• Watch Your Music
• Employer / Employee Relationship

1st edition 2017, 10 pages.

Early 1900's version of the Haunted Match Box. For a finish the box transforms into a small doll dressed in a cloth gown. This does take construction skills and the effect is worth the trouble. See video below. Another video, where Tilley literally lifts the skirt of the girl, is included with the purchase (check your digital shelf).

1st edition 2017, PDF 4 pages, video 40s.

The magic of India comes to life in Dr. Carrington's colorful look at the fables, feats, and magic of the mystical fakirs of India.

You'll learn the inner workings of the Basket of Death, Mango Seed to Tree, Buried Alive illusion, Flying Rabbit, the Dry Sands Trick, the Beans and Scorpion Trick, Snake Charming, and more.

Want to add something different to your act? Perhaps one of your primary assistants can adopt the role of a Hindu fakir and present one or two of these effects as an added attraction in your existing magic or hypnosis show.

For magic historians, Carrington provides...

This course presents a complete, two-hour program of scientific, mystifying and comical hypnotic stage entertainments that can be presented after studying this all-inclusive course.

Audiences love to witness hypnotic stage acts! Now you, too, can be a stage hypnotist with your own show. Written by an experienced operator (and owner of a stage hypnotic show), this course provides authentic instructions for performing a complete evening's entertainment. Not only does this course teach how to do many wonderful hypnotic tests, it also provides the complete routine of your show, tells how to select...

A very strong market for magicians is fund raising through the school system. The chance of hosting a "no cost, no risk" fund raiser can be one of the highest demand performances a magician can do. This is a minimum administration, short term event that can bring in substantial amounts of money for both the school and the magician. A no cost, no risk magic show translates into a two or three-week event that ends in deposit.

This text is a primer to get you into the school shows market. Begin with the high schools and let the referrals lead you in other directions onto new customers.

A killer set of mind-reading effects in your pocket. Self-working and instantly repeatable with a different outcome each time.

What You Get:

1. Psycherotika card - A specially designed and beautifully produced sturdy plastic card in poker size.
2. Nightwalkers card - Another specially designed and beautifully produced sturdy plastic card in poker size.
3. A special business card printed on both sides with gloss lamination.

The performer is able to divine the starting point and ending point of a "chain of thoughts" which freely happens only in the mind of the participant. Nothing is ever...

A vintage performance by Simon at Monday Night Magic, including: Getting To Know You, Clint Eastwood Versus the Ballerina, 1-800-MENTAL-HEALTH, Sleight of Tongue Plus, Twisted Rose, The Mysterious Floating Orb of Zanzibar, Souls Torn Asunder, The Angst of Puppetry, Meanderings at the End of the Ride, plus an exclusive half-hour interview.

1st edition 2001, length 1h 10min.

This is your chance to grab a front row seat for the whole Simon "Strange and Unusual Hobbies" show, filmed at the Soho Playhouse in New York City. This has never been available before, anywhere, in any format.

Part con-man, part conjurer and all entertainer, Simon Lovell's 'Strange and Unusual Hobbies' is a show and tell into the devious mind and methods of hustlers, hucksters and cheats. A "raving nutter," Simon's acts of deception are powerful and his execution flawless, as he takes audiences through his wild collection of tricks and cheats. A hilarious and awe-inspiring evening of pure...

This trick might become your favorite trick. You show spectators a green casino chip. And then every few seconds a new visual effect happens. The chips proliferate and migrate under your hands. They disappear and reappear somewhere else. They change color individually and for the climax all three chips change color.

You get a show routine by decorated magician Peki. Peki won with his manipulation performance many international first prizes and also two awards at the FISM World Championships.

This chip performance developed over 30 years of practice, has continued to capture the attention...

Learn the details of these two important forces and several great routines from Steven Youell who has mastered these two moves. This ebook is photo illustrated and teaches you every nuance.

• Starting Out
• Learning the Timing
• The Standard Advice
• No Parrots
• No Celebrations
• Can the Classic Force Be 100%?
• Eliminating the Fear
• The Basic Mechanics of the Stanley Collins Force
• Without a Table
• Meshing the Mechanics with Words and Movements
• The Classic Force Is Not a Trick
• Applications for the Stanley Collins Force
  • Bill Simon's Business Card Prophecy Move
  • The Two Pile Force
• Practical...

A different handling makes a retention of vision illusion possible. This classic is now more baffling than ever. See video below. You will also receive a tutorial video explaining how you can best practice this coin move.

A very similar effect is Tenkai Buttons except that the buttons require a little preparation before this can be done smoothly.

1st edition 2017, 4 pages + video.

The elusive matchbox.

A favorite of Dai Vernon. A matchbox sleeve vanishes from the performer's hand and returns to his pocket. Requires some construction but not difficult. See video below.

1st edition 2017, 4 pages.

6 easy Native American themed mentalism routines.

This eBook first released in 2006 disappeared a year later and returns now in its original form. So what is a Pow Wow?

Pow Wow is the Native American people's way of meeting together, to join in dancing, singing, visiting, renewing old friendships and making new ones. It's also a time to renew thought of the old ways and to preserve the rich Native American heritage. The word powwow in itself is from an Indian word that has been Anglicized. It comes from the Algonquian term "pau-wau" or "pauau", which referred to a gathering of medicine...

Key codes, card systems, and mnemotechnic marvels.

• Introduction
• Mnemotechnic Marvels
• No. 1 - The Numbered Cards
• No. 2 - The Cloak-Room Attendant
• No. 3 - Seeing Through The Bag
• No. 4 - Objects In The Dark
• No. 5 - Locating The Page
• No. 6 - Double Dealing
• Identifying The Personality
• Key Codes
  • My Card System
  • How To Prepare For A Series Of Astounding Tricks Through "My System"
  • Formula To Find Out Where Any Particular Card Lies In The Pack
  • The Card Fiend
• Memory System

1st edition 1952, 23 pages.

This ebook explores the classic "Quick Three Way" plot. How can the faces of three playing cards be shown to be the same?

• Foreword
• Quick 3-Way (Ed Marlo)
• New Quick 3-Way (Ed Marlo)
• Freeway Three-Way (John Bannon)
• Another Quick 3-Way (Ed Marlo)
• Slide Three-Way (Phil Goldstein)
• Cervon’s Quick Three-Way
• Revised Quick D-Way (Derek Dingle)
• Tweaked Three-Way (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Okal's 3-Way (Bill Okal)
• Kay-Kay Tri-Way (Kevin Kelly)
• Flustrating Three-Way (Brother John Hamman)
• Rhumba Three-Way (Vallarino)
• Montesque Three-Way (Ed Marlo)
• Bonus: Least-Likely Find

1st edition 2017, 42 pages....