Magic & Mentalism: page 270

This PDF encapsulates Cara's practise on storytelling and how to turn a trick into a piece of theatre. It encompasses setting, attitude, sound, crafting a tale, inspiration, hints, tips, getting the most from your verbal presentation and much much more. It also includes essays by professional storytellers revealing facets of their art. This is not a work for someone looking for tricks. It is however a work that will take your Magic to the next level.

Chapters include:

• Isn't storytelling just for children?
• Storytelling is a 5 pointed star
• Finding a tale
• Scripting your tale
• Words from...

Robert Nelson and his brother Larry ("Alla Rageh") started the Nelson Enterprises in 1921. This Master Index cross-references by title, catalog issue and page number every effect, book and manuscript issued by Nelson from 1927 through the last catalog in 1972. This Master Index represents a summary of:

• 45 years of Nelson Enterprises catalog offerings.
• 21 Nelson catalogs.
• 5846 total items appearing in those catalogs.
• 2476 total pages are summarized in this Master Index.
• 1276 separate effects, books, appear in this Master Index.
• 125 pages are in this Master Index.
• 36 months in preparation. ...

Daring! Sensational! That's what audiences say who witness the act of a stage hypnotist. Now you can learn the inside secrets of the professional stage hypnotist, in this fascinating book by Dunninger's "behind the scenes man," David J. Lustig.

Learn the secrets behind:

• Needle Test
• Murder Test
• Cataleptic Trance
• Human Anvil
• Fire Test
• Window Sleeping Test
• Pseudo-Hypnotic Stunts
• Hypnotism Tests from the Orient
• The Blood-Stopping Test
• and other valuable and instructive chapters, plus
• Lecture for a stage hypnotic act

Show love for your country, audience or corporate sponsor by adding one or more patriotic effects, tips or suggestions to your program.

No one person could have invented so many effects. Solomon Stein, the author of Magic, Maestro, Please, reached out to the best minds in magic to bring you this fine collection of audience-pleasing magic.

As B. W. McCarron notes in the introduction, audiences like to feel that they are involved in a performance. By showing your audience that you care, you are going the extra mile that will result in more and better paying shows for you.

Patriotic effects make excellent photo opportunities...

Eine Sammlung effektvoller Zauberkunststücke welche ohne die geringste Fingerfertigkeit, Übung oder Vorkenntnisse in der Magie von jedermann ausgeführt werden können.

• Vorwort
• Erster Teil. Mechanische Kunststücke
  • 1. Die in freier Hand erscheinende Rose
  • 2. Die springenden Karten
  • 3. Das Blumenkartenspiel
  • 4. Die Aufhebung der Schwerkraft
  • 5. Die verschwindende Flasche
  • 6. Der Blumenstrauß im Teller
  • 7. Der Apfel des Paris
  • 8. Die neue Bonbondüte
  • 9. Schwarz, weiß, rot
  • 10. Das magische Aquarium
  • 11. Die kluge Ente
  • 12. Die bezauberte Glocke
  • 13. Das wandernde Licht
  • 14. Der gefesselte...

Henry Hardin's plot has been around for 107 years and his initial three methods are explained in The Art of Magic (1909). Card tricks of this kind were atypical when Hardin devised his trick. During his time, spectators physically picked cards. They seldom, if ever, mentally selected them. Because only five cards are used in "The Princess Card Trick," Hardin strengthened the challenge by finding the mental selection by tactile means while the five "possibilities" were in his pocket.

This is how the his trick appeared to audiences: Five cards are shown to a spectator who is asked to think of one of them....

A three-phase, coin box routine with no difficult sleights. Perfect for the magician who doesn't do coin magic but wants to add an astounding effect to the repertoire. Can be performed close-up and surrounded. Included is Bob's "Beat the Devil" bizarre patter story.

You will need one Boston Coin Box and two Okito Coin Boxes to perform this routine.

M.D. "A blast to play with ... I have been having so much fun ...."

R.R. "... (The routine is) a classic, down to professional quality patter."

D.S. "A real nice piece of work ... great ideas and routines ... I ... was quite impressed...

A practical card index that is optimized for fast withdrawal of any card from a standard 52-card deck.

1st edition 2018, 4 pages + video

Everyone gets nervous before they begin their performance. Those who say they don't are lying. The degree of stage fright is different, but everyone experiences it. There are tips of the trade that many professionals use to work through it. Some are physical and others mental. Combined they can help you control the pressures stage fright can have on you. This text shares a few of those tips. It provides a detailed description of the elements of stage fright, and ways you can calm yourself and focus on your magic.

• Preface
• Stage fright and its impact
• Working the pressure meter
• Confront the...

3 scripts - 3 different effects - 2 impromptu - for all performing venues. A fun exploration of the GILBREATH principle that not only entertains, but also hides the methodology.

For all performing venues.

Most mathematical tricks suffer from a multitude of challenges, and the Gilbreath principle is no different.

Issues include:

• why you can't examine the deck/packet
• why the cards aren't shuffled
• what the point of the trick is
• how to hide when the cards change columns

There is no routine supplied with this extension pack. These are 25 more images that can be printed and used to perform David Devlin's Optical Opener.

Images include:

• Aleister Crowley (great for bizarrists)
• Bride of Frankenstein (Elsa Lancaster)
• Dracula (4 Images Lugosi & Lee)
• Ernest P. Worrell
• Harpo Marx
• Herman Munster (2 images)
• The Joker (Heath Ledger)
• President John F. Kennedy
• Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)
• Lucille Ball
• Mork (2 Images Robin Williams)
• Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)
• The Phantom of The Opera (2 images Lon Chaney)
• Rodney Dangerfield
• Snoop Dogg
• Tim Allen
• Tupac Shakur
• Willy Wonka...

When David released The Optical Opener he had no idea that it would be so wildly popular. It is an effect that David has used for quite a long time, but it is not his first application for the Thatcher Illusion. David released the effect as he did because it is a great opening effect for any show. But that is kind of the issue. It is for a show. It is not something that can be apparently done impromptu (unless, of course, you put the images on your electronic device).

This is the original application that David came up with for this great optical illusion: The magician removes a Dollar bill from his wallet....

A Journey Through a History of Magic traces the lives and times of famous magicians throughout history through to many popular present day performers. With pictures and photos that introduce you to many almost forgotten performers who have gained fame.

Featuring a few of the performers who have shaped the art and craft of magic through the ages.

• The History of Magic
• The Conjuror Painting
• Dedi the Magician
• Matthias Buchinger
• Hieronymous Scotto
• John Nevil Maskelyne
• Joseph Pinetti
• Louis Hasselmayer
• Robert Houdin
• John Henry Anderson
• Chung Ling Soo
• Charles Dickens
• Fox Sisters
• Annie Abbott
• Great Lafayette ...

• Kartenschule
  • Die Schleifvolte
  • Die Wurfvolte
  • Die Drehvolte
  • Die Kippvolte
  • Das Laufen der Karten
  • Die unter das Spiel gedrehte Karte
  • Das Rauschen
  • Das Filieren mit einer Hand
  • Das Filieren par excellence
  • Das Wurffilieren
  • Das freihändige Filieren
  • Das Forcieren mit einer Hand
  • Das wiederholte Forcieren ein und derselben Karte
  • Das Eskamotieren der Karten
  • Das Eskamotieren der untersten Karte im Spiel
  • Die natürliche Eskamotage mehrerer Karten
  • Die wiederholte natürliche Eskamotage
  • Die französische Eskamotage mehrerer Karten
  • Die deutsche Eskamotage
  • Die Conradi'sche Eskamotage mehrerer...

• Vorwort
• Erster Teil. Kartenkunststücke ohne Apparate
  • 1. Die Karten in der Brusttasche
  • 2. Der magische Degen
  • 3. Gerade oder Ungerade
  • 4. Das Gedankenlesen
  • 5. Das verwandelte As
  • 6. Das Vorherbestimmen menschlicher Gedanken
  • 7. Einen Thaler durch ein Kartenspiel wandern zu lassen
  • 8. Die Gedankenübertragung
  • 9. Die Macht des Fluidums
  • 10. Die Springkarte
  • 11. Die Volte
  • 12. Ein ganzes Kartenspiel durchzureißen
  • 13. Die verwandelte Karte
  • 14. Dasselbe Kunststück in anderer Ausführung
  • 15. Das Forcieren
  • 16. Das Aufspießen gezogener Karten auf einen Degen
  • 17. Das Hellsehen
  • 18. Die...

• Answer the Phone / Text / Email
• Everything Old/New Again
• Failure To Read Drive C
• Your Reputation Walks In First
• To Good To Be True
• Don't Lose That Idea
• Reward Your Volunteers
• Entertainment Factor

1st edition 2018, 10 pages.

A complete card-act with patter.

This ebook describes moves and routines for a stacked deck. The authors are using the Si Stebbins stack, but most of what is taught applies to other stacks, memorized or algorithmic. At the very end a simply two person code is taught.

Dornfield, President of the Chicago Society of Magicians writes in The Sphinx magazine, November 1919 page 209:

From the fertile mind of Dr. Q comes this fair and convincing 10-minute act of apparent mindreading. It looks so authentic that you may be tempted to claim genuine psychic powers.

Everything in this 10-minute act is explained in plain English, so even if you're new to performing pseudo-mindreading, you can present these tests and convince most any audience. Best yet, no hidden gimmicks, one-ahead, or secret assistants are used. No chemicals, secret preparations or "instant stooges," either. But still, believe it or not, your audience does most of the work for you.

If you travel frequently,...

"This system is, without doubt, the crowning achievement in this line. The author, an exponent of the mystic art for over thirty years, and former magic dealer, is widely known for his many original contributions in the field of Mind Reading, Spiritualism and Psychic Phenomena. Among these world-famous creations were the 'Wireless Mind Reading Act', the 'Talking Teakettle', the 'Spirit Telephone', the 'Improved Reading of Written Messages', etc. These are all outstanding effects and you will find this equally true of 'The Calostro Mind Reading Act'." - Robert W. Doidge

From the introduction: ...

A suave combination of technique, showmanship, and salesmanship in selling card magic. The tricks are full of flair and sparkle that is the Leech trademark.

• A Faulty Cut
• The Lie Detector
• The Spectator Does A Trick
• Doubly Ambitious
• Name Speller
• The Double Count
• A Sandwich Change
• The Casino Trick
• Ace, Three, Five
• A Subtle Sucker Effect
• A Triple Discovery
• Routine Royale
• One Among Four
• A Dishonest Mistake
• Again, The Elevator
• No Crimp Ace Cutting
• Easy Aces Reversed
• About The Author

1st edition 1959, 28 pages; 1st digital edition 2018, PDF 25 pages.

Derek Dingle was one of the greatest magicians and sleight of hand artists the world has ever known...and his patter was hilarious.

Learn how Derek constructed his brilliant routines and devised his hilariously engaging patter. Included are pix and 10 videos to make this ebook totally understandable..."see" how these tricks play. As with all of Paul's ebooks, his many effects, and his many contributions and publications, every "fine point" has been eked out in detail, and his "tips of performance" are completely explained...this is the real deal. Paul befriended Derek Dingle years ago and learned one...

"Gregg Webb is one of the great underground sleight-of-hand innovators of our age. I've had the privilege to work with him in person... now YOU have the opportunity to learn from him in his pages of S.O.H.O." - Jeff McBride, creator of "McBride's Magic and Mystery School"

This is book 3 in the SOHO (Sleight of Hand only) trilogy. The other two are SOHO and The Shade.

"Gregg Webb's brand of magic spans the full spectrum to include closeup, mentalism, manipulation, and stage. He spins his magic web - always inviting spectators one step closer to his inevitable moment of no explanations we call magic." - Doug MacGeorge

• Foreward
• Chapter I
• Chapter II: Rattle Caps
• Chapter III: Poker Dice and Poker Cards
• Chapter IIII: Nate Leipzig X
• Chapter V: Harry and Bess - Love and Bondage the Card Trick
• Chapter VI: Blinded by the Lack of Light III
• Chapter VII: The Lizard and...

This is book 2 in the SOHO (Sleight of Hand only) trilogy. The other two are SOHO and The Lizard Wizard's Diary.

"Gregg Webb has been marching to the beat of a different drummer for the past couple of decades. His wonderful handcrafted magazines contain great magic that is fun to perform. Why sweat the hard stuff when you can fool laymen - and your magic buddies - with stuff that is sneaky rather than difficult?" - Joe McKay

• The Key on the String
• There's the Rub II
• Heads I Win. Tails I Win.
• Real-Gone Queens Revised
• What is Shade?
• Coins Across 2017
• "Hocus" plus "Pocus" Equals "Presto"
• Egg and Salt
• 3-Ball...