Magic & Mentalism: page 296

El legendario Bob Cassidy solía terminar su famosa actuación de mentalismo con una demostración que dejaba boquiabiertos a propios y extraños: era capaz de memorizar una baraja realmente mezclada por los espectadores en menos de quince segundos.

Este breve manual es la síntesis de décadas de trabajo para lograr ese efecto, al alcance de cualquier persona con unas capacidades mentales estándar. El sistema que aquí se describe permite memorizar secuencias completas no solo de cartas, sino de palabras nombradas al azar por espectadores, listas de objetos o cualquier otra información...

The meaning of Kabbala, translated from Hebrew, means something received and handed down. This definition resonates. Knowledge of magic, after all, is handed down from generation to generation, from magician to magician, and from teacher to disciple. Prior to xerography and personal computers, most magical knowledge was transmitted in this primitive, semi-private, and intimate means. Word-of-mouth reigned supreme and to a certain extent still does.

The magic scene in the Seventies was a blooming, buzzing place, atwitter with contentiousness and creativity. Close-up magic, particularly with...

From the introduction:

You show four Queens of heart with a red back. Suddenly the backs become blue and then all four backs change again into four completely different back designs.

You will need four Queens of Heart with four different back designs. One double backer (one back matching one of the Queen's back) and one blank face card where the back matches the other back of the double backer.

1st edition 2019, length 2min 50s

From the Foreword:

The format follows Gregg's established style of illustrations and hand-lettered text.

• Dedication
• Introduction
• Bill in Lemon XYZ
• Three Minus One...

This ebook continues where Ian stopped with his Five Kinks series. His tinkering with classic routines continues.

Too Easy Ace Cutting sees Ian reducing sleights to an absolute minimum for this timeless favorite, adding a surprise ending.

Distinctive Side Steal describes a handling for this sleight which resolves the one fundamental problem with the move, making it far easier to acquire.

Brown's Wandering Card: Ian describes his own version here and includes a subtlety which significantly enhances the deceptiveness of Brown's routine.

1st edition 2019, 17 pages.

Two complete scripts and very simple handling for the Triumph effect, which not only fools people, but entertains them immensely. No difficult sleights, no gaffs, no problems.

Many versions of Triumph are either complicated and hard to follow, or gaffed, or even a knuckle buster.

Well, the author of How To Write A Script shows how he used his methodology to write 2 different scripts that explains and entertains with the Triumph effect, while technically putting it well within the reach of every magician. This ebook gives you every line, joke, piece of timing, setup and nuance of the routine.

The ebook...

Night club performer Tony Kardyro (Senor Torino) reveals his favorite card mysteries in this clever collection. Drawing heavily from eighteen years' experience in the night club and banquet field, Kardyro created these effects to fill modern day demands for magic, as well as professional demands of the performer. Some of the effects depend on well-known sleights that are within the capacity of any adept magician. These proven, audience-pleasing effects will prove that you're a master of mystery.

Two of the ten effects, Strange, Very Strange and Two Ace Change were called out by Walter B. Gibson as being...

Inhalt der 7. Ausgabe:

• Ringflight
• Die Himber-Ringe
• Ein Hoch auf die Doppelblankokarte
• Action Switch
• Klebstoffe
• Sponge Vanishes

Erstausgabe 2019, 11 Seiten + videos

Aus der Einleitung:

A compilation of three manuscripts Super Dupes, Odd Lifts, and Secret Subtractions.

• SUPER DUPES
  • I. Informal Formulations
  • Four Sleights
  • Forgatherers
  • Foreshortenings
  • Foursomes
  • Fortuities
  • Forethoughts
  • Fore-and-afts
  • II. Guiles and Deals
  • Part One: ALL HANDS ON DECK
  • Part Two: CHEATS' FEATS
  • Part Three: MIXED TRICKS
• ODD LIFTS
  • I. Pull-Up Lifts
  • II. Push Back Lifts
  • III. The Green Lift
  • IV. Undercover Lift
  • V. Artificial Double Lift
  • VI. Miscellaneous
• SECRET SUBTRACTION
  • I. Preliminaries
  • II. The Flourish Count Technique
  • III. Secret Subtraction
  • IV. Applications
  • Final Notes ...

Note that different moves and techniques have been called 'Gypsy Switch' over the decades. See for example a technique to switch bills using an envelope: Gypsy Switch. The technique described here by Jon Racherbaumer uses a handkerchief and is mostly used with coins, but the basic technique is flexible and utilitarian, which means any object that is conveniently flat and compact can be switched for a similar object, using a handkerchief. This includes objects such as coins, poker chips, billets, cards (business and torn playing card pieces), and folded currency.

In its antecedent form this move appeared...

You will need four cards with same face but different back. And two cards with same face and same back.

1st edition 2019, length 2min 22s.

A very easy to do routine in which a black card repeatedly flies from hand to pocket leaving spectators amazed again and again, despite the performer trying to simplify things. All can be examined.

Imagine deliberately counting five cards....four of which are red with only one black. Each and every card is called and shown - without a single false move four cards are tossed to the table and the black card is seen to have vanished. It is reproduced from the pocket. Now Imagine that you can do it again and again each time eliminating one red card to make it easier for the public to follow the...

Alexander de Cova zählt seit vielen Jahren zu den innovativsten Zauberern im deutschsprachigen Raum. In jedem dieser sechs Bände sind viele Tricks und Ideen beschrieben, die er sich die letzten 15 Jahre ausgedacht hat. Das Material ist in der Praxis entstanden und hat sich in unzähligen Vorführungen bewährt. Viele professionelle Künstler haben seine Kunststücke bereits fest in ihr Repertoir eingebaut.

Die Methoden der Kunststücke sind so einfach wie möglich gehalten, damit Komplikationen bei der Vorführung vermieden werden. Der Schwierigkeitsgrad wurde bei den meisten Tricks auf...

Aus dem Vorwort:

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Ein paar Worte zuvor
• SALONZAUBEREI
  • Hasi 15
  • Phoenix aus der Asche
  • Six-Card-Repeat
  • Der verschwindende Vogelkäfig
  • Milchglas Trick
  • Hebas Fes
  • Der Flaschentrick
  • Wanderung oder Vermehrung?
  • Die Flaschenwanderung
  • Die Flaschenvermehrung
  • Flaschensets
  • Die Röhren
  • Der Tisch
  • Das Layout
  • Umfallende Flaschen
  • Die Handhabung der Flaschensets
  • Das zweite Flaschenset
  • Das dritte Flaschenset
  • Marconick Silk Trio
• CLOSE-UP
  • Ring, Watch and Wallet
  • Purse Frame Handlings
  • Die Ramsay Subtlety
  • Mit der Edge Palm
  • Die direkte Produktion
  • Goshman Pinch
  • Das Hineingeben der Münze in die Geldbörse ...

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Ein paar Worte zuvor
• SALONZAUBEREI
  • Bierkrug Produktion
  • Gedanken zur Daumenfessel
  • Die Elmsley Variante
  • Der Taschendieb
  • Karte in Brieftasche
  • Master Silks
  • Das Al Baker Prinzip
  • Der Joe Berg Stand
  • Die Sache mit dem Stuhl
  • Das Entknoten der Tücher
  • Manuelles Entknoten
  • Entknoten mit Gimmick
  • Die zweite Variante
  • Ein besseres Gimmick
  • Geldschein in Zitrone
  • Eierbeuteleien
  • Die Grundhaltung
  • Der Bagdrop
  • Das Drehen des Beutels
  • Unterarm Deckung
  • Die direkte Ladung
  • Die Produktion
  • Verschwinden und Bagdrop
  • Umdrehen des Beutels mit Bagdrop
  • Weitere Deckung
  • Der Drop
  • Platt drücken ...

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Ein paar Worte zuvor
• SALONZAUBEREI
  • Fly with the Eagles
  • Snappy Silk Production
  • Blitz-Kartenverwandlung
  • Tuch aus Flasche
  • Das Murmeltier
  • Hung-up!
• CLOSE-UP
  • Vitamin B
  • Schlüssel zum Erfolg
  • Purse Swindle
  • Das Hütchenspiel
  • Die Schalen
  • Die weiche Erbse
  • Die harte Erbse
  • Die Unterlage
  • Palmagepositionen
  • Der Pinch
  • Deep Pinch
  • Front Pinch
  • Der Transfer
  • Das Leerzeigen der Schalen
  • Backpinch
  • Der Escobar-Griff
  • Escobar Exquisit
  • Das Stehlen unter dem Glas
  • Das direkte Stehlen
  • Das "Zwei-Erbsen-Konzept"
  • Zur Routine
  • Scheinbares Stehlen
  • Die Finte mit dem Glas ...

Aus dem Vorwort:

An amazing induction from the Devin Knight hypnosis show designed for experienced hypnotists only. The performer invites certain people from the audience to come forward and sit in a row of chairs. To the utter amazement of the audience, the moment these people sit in the chairs they all immediately go into a hypnotic trance. A real show stopper with full directions on how to do this. This is as strong as you can get and will create much talk.

There is no pre-show work by the performer. Not recommended for beginners. This is for the stage hypnotist only and not for hypnotherapy. No stooges...

A romantic-comedy novel about a failed magician.

"Poignant comedy genius at its best" - The Guardian

"The perfect summer tonic! Hilarious!" - Uri Geller

"Reading the hilarious story from the bus, where James unsuccessfully fights his biological urgency, I only narrowly escaped pissing myself from laughter." - Chris Wasshuber

From the Foreword:

Wonderful biographical information about magician Baron Hartwig Seeman, and juggler William D'Alvini. Also includes a chapter on the German magician Bellachini and a fascinating chapter on the psychology of conjuring.

• CHAPTER I. Introductory Remarks
• CHAPTER II. Life Of Professor Seeman
• CHAPTER III. Thrilling Experiences With Ole Bull
• CHAPTER IV. A Visit To The Pyramids
• CHAPTER V. The Czar Befriends The Magician
• CHAPTER VI. To England, Africa And India
• CHAPTER VII. Experiences With A Great Fakir
• CHAPTER VIII. A Problem Solved
• CHAPTER IX. Martin Luther's Wedding Ring
• CHAPTER X. William...