Magic & Conjuring: page 348

The renowned sideshow showman Ward Hall reminisced about the time Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus attracted a record-breaking crowd of over 20,000 people inside the sideshow. "The Greatest Show on Earth" was playing Montreal during the 1950s. However, over a decade later, Giovanni Iuliani surpassed this world-breaking record many times over.

200,000 ATTENDANCE RECORD!

In 1966, Giovanni Iuliani presented 5 major freak phenomena alive on a high elevated stage at two Montreal movie houses. These high attendance halls each featured on their giant screen the classic horror...

A dollar bill to impossible location effect that incorporates the timeless Buddha Money Papers. The noted bill vanishes from the papers only to reappear inside a pocket watch case that has been in full view the entire time.

Included here possibly for the first time is the fool-proof method for preparing two bills so that they bear the same serial numbers. This is not the inferior dodge of erasing the last digits on the bill. These bills utilize the entire serial number.

1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages, video 1 min 12 s.

This is an entertaining, commercial trick bearing a mystery card plot, with the spectator playing the magician and a color-changing finale that packs a wallop.

The spectator shuffles and selects a card from a blue deck under test conditions. This is the prediction. The magician shuffles the red deck, chooses a card, and signs it. The signed card miraculously matches the prediction. As a kicker finish, the magician causes the signature to jump from the red card to the blue card.

1st edition 2021, PDF 11 pages.

You show four queens. The two black queens are placed on the table, the two red queens are retained in the hands. But despite this separation, they change places and the red queens are now on the table and the black queens are in the hands. The next phase is a little 'oil and water' sequence where the queens are mixed black, red, black, red but quickly separate themselves again into two black and two red queens. The startling climax is that all four cards change their back colors.

1st edition 2021, video 4 min 57 s.

A Copper/Silver transportation in which the performer's hands never touch the coins.

A copper coin in the hands of one spectator changes places with a silver coin in another spectator. The performer is across the room and never touches the coins at all! No gaffs or gimmicked coins. Everything can be handled and is.

This effect can easily combine with other C/S effects, and the unique "Tweener" method can be applied to other effects.

1st edition 2021, 4 pages.

Out with your friends just to enjoy the evening. The manager comes up to you and says one of the acts did not show up. He asks you to do a 20-minute set. You didn't bring anything with you. All you can work with is what you can find on hand. Could you do it? This ebook offers some ideas you could use.

• Real events
• Don't panic
• Relax, take your time
• Audience must believe this is natural
• Look around
• Wrapping it up

1st edition 2021, PDF 16 pages.

Eine mehrphasige Spellbound-Routine mit farbigen chinesischen Münzen.

Der Vorführende entnimmt einem Portemonnaie drei schwarze chinesische Münzen, die er den Zuschauern in die Hand gibt. Er sagt, dass es sich dabei um chinesische Glücksmünzen handle. Wenn man sie reibe und sich dabei etwas wünsche, könne mit etwas Glück der Wunsch in Erfüllung gehen. Dies demonstriert er auf anschauliche Weise, indem er sich wünscht, dass die Münzen eine nach der anderen eine andere Farbe annehmen. Die erste Münze färbt sich blau, der Vorführende zeigt, wie man die Farbe wieder entfernen kann...

Eine Neuinterpretation einer Kombination von zwei 1982 von Christian Scherer publizierten Kartentricks unter Verwendung seiner Handhabung des Ascanio Spreads.

Die zwei roten Könige werden bildoben unten ins Spiel gesteckt. Eine vom Zuschauer gemerkte Karte im oberen Drittel des Spiels ragt zur Hälfte aus diesem nach oben heraus. Das Spiel wird ausgefächert, die beiden roten Köngie werden zur Hälfte aus dem Spiel herausgezogen und es ist klar ersichtlich, dass sich keine Karte zwischen ihnen befindet. Das Spiel wird egalisiert und die gemerkte Karte wandert ohne ersichtliches Zutun des...

What is S.E.M.P.E.R.? (Special Esp Memory Powers Enhanced Radically)

A special trick with a flexible method that offers wide-ranging presentational possibilities. It uses an ordinary deck of 52 poker cards and the trick will be deceptive even for many illusionists, but above all its impact on the audience is devastating.

Two spectators are asked to take a card and put them unseen in their pockets. The magician explains that, under these conditions, it is obviously extremely difficult to be able to identify the cards. Nevertheless, and in order to demonstrate to the public the uncommon...

Che cos'è "S.E.M.P.E.R." ? (Special Esp Memory Powers Enhanced Radically)

Il gioco che stai per leggere è davvero speciale: utilizza un normalissimo mazzo di 52 carte da poker ed il trucco risulterà ingannevole anche per molti illusionisti e le sue possibilità di presentazione quasi infinite; ma soprattutto il suo impatto sul pubblico è devastante!!

L'effetto è il seguente:

a due spettatori viene chiesto di prendere una carta e di infilarla subito in tasca, senza nemmeno guardarla!! Il mago spiega che, in questa situazione, è ovviamente estremamente difficile poter identificare...

A choice collection of smart close-up and pocket tricks of the type for which Dr. Ervin was famous. Originally sold as four separate booklets, these have now been combined into a single, greatly enlarged volume, edited by Ralph W. Read and fully illustrated.

Contains tricks with bills, coins, cigarettes, tobacco, matches, silks, needles, playing cards, ropes, mind reading, livestock, and more. Comedy, straight magic, even a few stunts that will play well as bar betchas. There's plenty of variety to capture and keep any audience's attention.

Our favorites include a very clever Thumb Tie that uses...

• Introduction
• Yogi Ray's Night Club Milk Glass
• Jack Becomes An Aviator
• Chix - Levitation
• Buy Bonds
• A Tip On A Tip
• Victory Birdhouse Silk Production & Vanish
• Mental Disclosure
• Sense And Nonsense With Cards
• A Routine For The Twentieth Century And Other Standard Magic
• Glorifying The Dancing Handkerchief
• The Migrating Card
• A Follow Up
• Four Corks And A Hat
• Two Number Tricks
• Gag With A Lady's Purse
• A New Wrinkle For The Passe Passe Comedy Bottles
• Your Mind Has Told Me So
• Rope Through The Neck
• Bottle Of Smoke
• Modern Chapeaugraphy
• Sgt. Jack Blades' Balls And Ribbons From The Mouth...

From the opening remarks:

Three more performance pieces designed with maximum entertainment in mind. Each effect includes sample scripts, handling's, and the all important presentational hooks with the emphasize on comedy.

POCKET POWER

Cards are shown portraying various items a person may have in their pockets such as, keys, pills, spectacles, etc. The performer invites the spectator to place various cards in their pocket (doesn't have to be pocket). Using x-ray vision (can place some x-ray specs on) the magician correctly identifies the items and the pockets.

THE BREAD KNIFE CARD STAB.

A unique and original...

How to find the guilty card despite a possible reticent witness!

An effect of mentalism, possible from a distance (in a video chat or even just on the phone), whose story is very loosely inspired by the movie "The Unusual Suspects" and in which the spectator is asked to choose five random cards from the deck. They will represent the suspects of a major bank robbery. Only one will be the real culprit. Despite the free arrangement of the cards and the various shuffles of face-up and face-down cards, in the end the mentalist will always succeed to guess all of these:

• in which position the...

It is ideal as an introduction to any mentalism act in which spectator participation and rapt attention is critical, but can also work as a stand-alone presentation or a transition from conjuring to mentalism. You leave the audience in a state of stunned silence, trust and respect. There are no tricks - nothing to learn - no practice (not possible, actually). It is real. This is a natural, innate ability of all humans demonstrated in a dramatic way.

Impromptu. Can be...

Montague was a member of the Hous of Commons and a hobby magician, which lead to his nickname "Conjurer of the House of Commons." Most of the tricks described here are of his invention.

From the introduction by Will Goldston:

You show four cards blank on both sides. Suddenly one changes to a Jack of Clubs with a regular blue back. One moment later all four change to blue backs and Jack of Diamonds on the front. Barely a moment later they have all red backs and Jack of Hearts on the front. If you haven't seen enough color changes the four backs change to yet another color. The fronts are blank again with one exception, a Jack of Clubs. You end where you started with all four cards blank on both sides.

1st edition 2021, video 3 min 25 s.

From the preface:

• Preface
• It Changes, It Shrinks, It Vanishes
• Big And Little Sponge Ball Transposition
• Mating The Cards With Jumbo Cards
• Card Control
• Coin Routine With A Silk
• Thimble Holder In The Trouser Pocket
• Thimble Surprise
• One Ahead Coin Routine
• Misdirection For The Two Handed Pass
• Effective Golf Ball Move
• You Caught Me That Time
• Ireland's Two Card Trick

Mel Mellers Gag book Vol 1 consists of over 100 gags directly from Mel's working act. Gags that have taken him around the world for over twenty years. A multitude of one-liners for every occasion from a top professional.

1st edition 2021, PDF 49 pages.

Now you can be like Jack Reacher, with an innate ability to wake yourself at a time of your choosing, as long as you "set" your internal clock before falling asleep. What an amazing ability! Here's a brilliant manuscript about auto-suggestion or self-hypnosis. Based upon actual experience.

Contains much information about this fascinating phase of hypnosis that can't be found elsewhere. Recommended for anyone interested in the possibilities of hypnotizing him- or herself.

From the Introduction by B. W. McCarron:

3 professional performance pieces direct from Mel's repertoire.

1: Spin a yarn a commercial presentation hook for the classic 'Gypsy thread' (performed with wool/yarn) with a great comedy spiel. Includes sample script and gags.

2: Around the world with a pack of cards. An offbeat and entertaining way to present the 'Six card repeat', enhancing the repetitive structure of the effect.

3: Totally scattered. Is a real fooler that plays big. A shuffled deck of cards is given to the spectator and they cut and note a card they then shuffle the cards again and scatter them. Under these impossible...

You show four double backer cards, one of which has a big black spot painted on it. You again show the cards and suddenly the card has actually a big black hole and the remaining three cards are double backers as before.

1st edition 2021, video 2 min.