ACAAN is a genre of card magic and mentalism effect that has now become a classic since it was first proposed by the great David Berglas, who was the first to call it "Any card At Any Number".
This version of mine is very easy to perform but, if well presented, will be likely to arouse great amazement among both magicians and lay audiences, and can be performed as well in Close-Up as on Stage. It simply requires an ordinary deck of 52 cards and possibly a pair of very ordinary six-sided dice (but it can also be just imaginary dice for each of which the spectators will decide the score), and you will...
L’A.C.A.A.N., in Italia noto anche come “Carta al Numero” è un genere di effetto di Cartomagia e Mentalismo oramai divenuto un classico da quando è stato proposto dal grandissimo David Berglas che appunto per primo l’ha definito “Any card At Any Number”
Questa mia versione è molto semplice da performare ma, se ben presentata, potrà riscuotere grande stupore sia tra un pubblico di maghi che di profani, e può essere eseguita tanto in Close-Up quanto in Scena, su un palco teatrale….
Necessita semplicemente di un comune mazzo di 52 carte ed eventualmente di un paio di...
1st edition 1919; PDF 36 pages.
An exceedingly clever use of Max Maven's Bonsai Force. Predict the free and random arrangement of four colored blocks.
Excerpt from the introduction by Max Maven:
But there is yet another benefit which is perhaps the rarest of all, when another creative spirit decides to explore something you've devised, and comes up with a new and different approach which expands your idea in ways you had not considered.
Sam Dalal, I'm delighted to say, has once again provided me with just such a situation. He has taken a principle I devised several years ago, and adapted it in an ingenious way which...
Containing over one hundred highly amusing and instructive tricks with chemicals.
A collection of innovative coin sleights and moves based on the PalmerClip palming technique, inspired by Bill Palmer's gaffless Scotch'n Soda routine. (with permission)
Originally used as an alternative to classic palm for crippled hands, several new sleights and applications evolved that allow for astonishment not possible by standard methods. You will learn: PalmerClip, PCSlip, PCLay, PCPIck, PCDrop and PCSteal plus suggested applications and an effect called Bangle.
Imagine being able to show both hands completely empty after a coin transfer, or between phases of a coins across routine. Photos...
What is Color Isolation? It's a complete card act where the two colors of the deck — red and black — continually separate, each time under quite different and more mysterious conditions. The deck is handled and shuffled by the spectator throughout, yet the colors seem to instantly obey the magician's every whim.
From the performer's standpoint, Color Isolation is an interlocking series of effects, each building on the next. You can borrow a deck, have it thoroughly shuffled by the spectator and proceed. After shuffling the deck, the spectator simply cuts off a portion and counts them...
Totally Impossible is a really strong effect with a very intriguing and fascinating method. The magician is able to cut with a knife to the card selected by a spectator. Simply and totally unbelievable. Obviously a magician fooler, as in the style of Joseph B. One of the most impossible divinations, one of the most dramatic localizations to add to your repertoire. You can do this with a borrowed shuffled deck. The Deck does not have to be complete.
A very visual and sudden spectator card rising to the top effect.
Spectator chooses a card (no force). The card can optionally be signed. It is inserted face-up in the middle of the deck. The performer places the top card by 90 degrees rotated on the top of the deck. He then removes that top card and suddenly the spectator's card rises to the top and is seen face-up on the top of the deck.
The gimmick is easy to make. It requires arts and crafts and some of the usual supplies for card gaffing.
1st edition 2022, video 13:30.
Excerpt from the foreword:
This little manuscript of choice effects I fondly dedicate to my dear friend, Louis Lam of Holland, a magician, gentleman, and writer. I am indebted to him for many of the fine effects contained herein. Effects which magicians will find choice magical morsels for immediate introduction into their programs.
Being a collection of easily built tricks and small illusions.
1st edition 1944, 30 pages; PDF 30 pages.
Containing complete instructions for performing over sixty ingenious mechanical tricks.
This is a very visual effect. Magically transfer writing from a card to your hand. Have a card selected (not forced), have it signed on the face, and then make a mark on the back. Wave your hand over the card and suddenly the mark has vanished from the card. It has transferred to the palm of your hand. Hand out the signed card as a souvenir.
The gimmick is easy to make and only requires a bit of arts and crafts with the usual supply for card gaffing.
1st edition 2022, video 15 min.
Volume 1, No. 12: December 2022, 50 pgs.
The twelfth issue of The Hermit Magazine features:
A collection of simple and effective experiments illustrating chemical, physical, and optical wonders.
Published by the Offices of the Chemist and Druggist. 42 Cannon Street, London.
This ebook and video is an experience of twelve years of continuous effort of studying, practicing, and performing hypnosis.
What is hypnosis?
Is it still a dream in 2022 for you to do hypnosis, whether in the field of therapy or in a show? It was a dream for me too, but an achievable dream that I have shared with you including documentary videos I have made of myself since the first day I started this profession.
If you know hypnosis, this educational series will guide you towards treatment and knowledge of hypnosis and the brain, and of course, you can do hypnosis faster and stronger...
Containing over fifty of the latest and best tricks used by magicians. Also containing the secret of Second Sight.
Excerpt from the introduction:
In Egypt, Greece and Rome, sleight of hand, accompanied by the supposed answers of the gods produced by ventriloquism, enabled the priest to keep the ignorant nations in subjection to their will. In the Middle Ages, too, a great deal of what happened under the influence of Black Magic was simply the cunning of professors of sleight of hand, sometimes mixed up with a few chemical tricks.
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One thing the young conjurer must remember, and...
S.H.I.EL.D. 3 (SelfWorking Honestly Impromptu Effect: card Location in the Deck - Vol. 3) is the third part of a collection of new, never-before-published card magic effects, designed by me and characterized by the fact that they can be performed with extreme ease, requiring no technique or manipulation by the magician, and being completely extemporaneous, performable even with a deck borrowed and shuffled by the audience (self-working and impromptu).
In addition, even the latter two effects can be performed entirely in "contactless mode" (or hands-off, as others would say): the magician,...
S.H.I.EL.D. 3 (Self-Working Honestly Impromptu Effect: card Location in the Deck - Vol. 3) È la terza parte di una raccolta di nuovi effetti di Cartomagia, mai pubblicati prima, da me ideati e caratterizzati dal fatto di poter essere eseguiti con estrema facilità, non richiedendo alcuna tecnica o manipolazione da parte del prestigiatore, e di essere completamente estemporanei, performabili anche con un mazzo preso a prestito e mescolato dal pubblico.
Inoltre anche questi due ultimi effetti possono essere interamente eseguiti in “modalità Contactless” (o hands-off, come direbbero...
A collaborative effort between the author and Ken Kline, an expert on extrasensory perception.
Excerpt from the preface:
A bachelor in his early fifties, Ken Kline was an armchair mentalist who loved the theory and occasional practice of his art. By profession, a theatrical photographer and was later involved in hotel management, all his spare hours were spent in research into the varied occult sciences. Over the years he kept a set of detailed notebooks and, at his bequest, they were left to me. I felt it was important that his ideas and enthusiasm be shared with others. Having this in...
A book of alternative, easier, card sleights and tricks to go with them.
Excerpt from the introduction:
Many of the basic card sleights are not easy to do well. Take the Two-Handed Pass in which the top and bottom halves of the pack are transposed. The objective is to do it invisibly, which is just about impossible. To cover the action some very strong misdirection is required ... or an alternative method. This little book is about such alternative methods ... easier ways to bring about the same results. But because sleights, in themselves, are useless, I've endeavoured to include a few...