Magic & Conjuring: page 396

You, a spectator, a deck of cards, a miracle!

A spectator shuffles a deck of cards, you instruct them to hold the cards face up, under the table, so that only they can see them. Despite these test conditions, you apparently display a genuine feat of 'remote viewing' by attempting to name each card in turn, as if you are somehow able to 'see through the table'. With an accuracy way beyond the odds you are able to prove to your audience that they are witnessing a real demonstration of 'psychic' ability and what you claim to be true, must be possible.

This effect will completely 'blow away'...

Here Ken de Courcy took a clever cut effect by Gerald Kosky, changed it, and altered it to make it completely self-contained and also impromptu. Whilst doing this, Ken hit on another use and here you are getting two for the price of one.

EFFECT:

A borrowed pack is shuffled by the owner, then the magician extracts two cards from it, hands the cards to the spectator and asks him to place them into a convenient pocket. The deck is placed on the table and the spectator is requested to cut off about two-thirds and lay it face-up alongside the remainder. He now cuts the larger packet roughly...

The title of this eBook hides its inspiration ... The effect is totally impromptu, self-working, quick and easy to perform (only eight cards are used), does not require any kind of card magic technique, and introduces the spectator to the possibility of secretly choosing whether to lie or tell the truth in response to the few questions that the mentalist will ask him during the experiment. In spite of all this, a merely thought-out card will be punctually found at the end of the experiment.

Noting the possible whispering in the room (especially if there are fellow magicians present, I say...

Il titolo di questo eBook, che letteralmente significa “La Mia Carta Inquietante”, ne nasconde l’ispirazione ... L’effetto è totalmente impromptu, di tipo automatico, facile e veloce ad eseguirsi (si usano solamente otto carte), non richiede alcun tipo di tecnica cartomagica ed introduce per lo spettatore la possibilità di scegliere segretamente se mentire o dire il vero in risposta alle poche domande che il Mentalista gli rivolgerà durante l’esperimento. Nonostante tutto questo, una carta solamente pensata verrà puntualmente ritrovata al termine dell’esperimento!

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A very effective parlor or stage effect. Cards or tickets can be used, or ESP cards or even tickets were drawn on the spot by the spectator on which to carry out an effective act of reading in the final revealing phase.

The spectator receives 4 cards, and shuffles them several times, at his discretion, while the mentalist has his back turned: at the end, he will be able to describe the correct position of all the cards.

To simplify the final phase for the performer, we propose the use of an ingenious "homemade" gimmick, which allows you to operate calmly, without fear of forgetfulness...

This is an all-mentalism issue, and the first essay is about the various kinds of mentalism, to help you describe your "powers" to your audience. These include Thought Reading, Remote Viewing, Precognition, Drawing Duplication, Clairvoyance, Psychometry, Living and Dead Tests, and also Metal Bending, and Psychic Healing (Faith Healing) and unusual "powers" such as Handwriting Analysis. Calling your feats by the correct type of power will go a long way in establishing yourself as an expert.

The next essay is about presentations that may be new to you so that your act will have more thought...

Both ebooks include original tricks using previously unreleased VR Stack Pro, which is explained in detail.

Entrambi gli ebooks includono effetti originali che utilizzano l’inedito VR STACK PRO, spiegato nel dettaglio all’interno.

EFFECTS

• Ryan Schlutz (author of False Anchors and Unanchored), presents RNG, his updated take on Card at Any Sum.
• A returning contributor to the magazine, Bill Citino shares his routine Making a Difference, a new variation of a Scott Robinson routine.
• A Nightmare in Red and Blue by Scott Baird, which is an improved handling of an old Don Nielson and Karl Fulves trick from Pallbearer's Review. I also teach my Flash Ribbon effect later in the issue.
• June is also Tomás Giammarco's first appearance in The Hermit, and he shares his routine Strange Concordance 23332, of which I am a huge fan! It's based...

A selective history of magic squares and routines and performances which are somewhat unusual and different from the regular magic square presentation of 'give me a number and I write down a magic square of that number'.

• Brother Can You Paradigm? (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Harried History of the Magic Square
  • B.A. (Before Annemann)
  • 1930 – Present
  • Wise-Guy Square
• Kick-Starters
  • Okey-Sidokey
  • Charlier Shuffle
• Miscellaneous Matrix Trix
  • Phoning Marrakech
  • Squaring the Deal
  • Upside Down
  • Cool Things about the Magic Square
  • Harry Ending
• References

1st edition 2008, PDF 31 pages....

Like the Billiard Balls, and Linking Rings the Indian Cups and Balls have become a classic of Magic. The apparatus is "designed" exclusively for Magic... (like the Linking rings), one does not come across such things in everyday life. While this may not find favour with many performers, whose idea of magic is to perform miracles with "everyday" objects,...their very design makes possible miracles of a type not possible with many other objects. For unlike Silk Cabbies, and Ghost Tubes, there is nothing fake about the apparatus itself...but their shape and construction make possible a surprising...

The Noon Stack is the only stack in the world with three official names. It is also called the Midnight Deck or the Moon Stack. You can either start learning this stack exactly at 12 noon or exactly at 12 midnight, any day.

Okay, on a more serious note, Noon Stack is a simple algorithmic stack that forms a nice memorized deck. Given a card, you can know its position and given a position, you can know the card at that position. And literally speaking, if you start learning this stack at 12 noon (or 12 midnight), you can completely get this down in less than an hour by about 1 pm (or 1 am)....

Going GaGa is a new ebook by Graham Hey containing some brand-new material and a couple of little-known classics brought up to date. They're all easy to do and brilliantly effective. You'll probably have most things you need to do these tricks - cards, duplicates, envelopes, etc.

Going GaGa is a great mentalism effect and a total 'magician fooler'. It's clever and easy to do. The performer hands a prediction to a spectator. Two spectators are given a pile of cards each. The first spectator shuffles his cards and selects any one. He is handed a list of celebrities and counts down - if he...

Effects with Fantasio's vanishing and appearing candles.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Max Sterling discontinued his weekly magic journal The Magical World in May 1911. After two years he restarted it for another period less than a year long. This second series from June 14th, 1913 until February 4th, 1914, is included in this PDF, 582 pages. It is not easy to publish a weekly conjuring periodical.

Number 1 (June 4th, 1913)

• Protection
• Between Ourselves
• American Notes
• What Others are Doing - Houdini
• Practial Magic - Cut and Restored Hat
• Pithy Patter - Torn Strip of Paper
• In Open Council
• Whereabouts this Week
• Cards - A Pre-arranged Pack
• For Beginners - Handkerchief Dyeing Extraordinary ...

The presentation of a magic effect is linked to many aspects, from the personality of the performer to the type of audience, to the type of show to be staged. Mentalism is only a pretext, it lends itself better than other spells to the discussion, especially on the definition of the character, the construction of the story, on the revelation. What we will analyze is not only useful for those who want to be a mentalist, but it is a stimulus to the realization of any magical effect and to improve one's communication process, with anyone on any subject. It's a mini-course in communication/NLP...

Invisibly switch a folded playing card (bill, cash, sugar pack, ...) against another right in front of their eyes.

Destined to be in your EDC (everyday carry). A real crowd-pleaser. A perfect close-up and table-hopping effect. A very fast, angle-proof, and up-close transformation with spectator involvement. Not a thumb-tip. This effect uses a homemade gimmick that most homes would have. The gimmick takes about five minutes to make. Both playing cards can be inspected.

You can also change bills, billets, cash a check, change sugar to sweeten low, etc.

Absolutely incredible misdirection...

Stanley Krebs was very successful in revealing the fraudulent practices of spirit mediums. One of the tools he employed was a pocket mirror that he used to see what was going on under the table.

In this series of articles in Suggestion he describes various sittings and encounters with spirit mediums such as the Bangs sisters, Dr. Henry Slade, Pierrie L.O.A. Keeler, and the Campbell brothers. Included are some comments, letters, and editorials from Suggestion journal relating to this topic.

An excerpt of this material was published in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.

1st edition 1901, published in Suggestion Journal;...

Spirit materialization and fraudulent mediums.

A record of research and experiment in a much-talked-of realm of mystery, with a review and criticism of the so-called spiritualistic phenomena of spirit materialization and hints and illustration as to the possibility of artificially producing the same.

Excerpt from the author's preface:

The Bangs sisters, Miss May Bangs and Miss Lizzie Bangs worked out of an apartment in Chicago. The author describes in detail a sitting he had with one of the Bangs sisters, and how a sealed envelope placed between two slates could be 'written on by the spirits'.

Includes illustrations with detailed descriptions of the modus operandi.

This is an excerpt from a series of articles in Suggestion journal.

1st edition 1901, published in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research; PDF 11 pages.

Reveals the actual methods used by this master medium to hoodwink the gullible public.

Thousands of believers swore that Eusapia Paladino, the Italian-born psychic medium, genuinely used her powers to invoke and deliver the spirits of departed loved ones. While she was at it, Eusapia suggested - and received - donations of $1750 in today's money from each participant to attend her seances. No wonder she guarded her secrets so convincingly.

Read about her exploits and learn the methods used by this psychic fraud to hoax her loyal subjects. No matter if you read the contents for your own...

Everything you need for Halloween: effects, ideas, further resources on the Halloween theme.

This tome-let is broken down into three categories:

1. Tricks that are fully fleshed out.
2. Theme / Prop ideas and resources to customize your existing repertoire.
3. A quasi-bibliography of sorts listing Halloween effects, books, etc. from other creators.

Included throughout will be some effects that I've published elsewhere. I've culled a few ideas and effects from several of my other works and brought it all together into one little resource. You'll find that the "scary" type of effects pull...

A series of novel and above all entertaining card tricks, all requiring a minimum of skill, the simplest of apparatus and all designed for the maximum entertainment and audience appeal.

No. 1. "A Double-Dose": Predestined and Black and Red Computation II.

Two effects, both using the same subtle principle, credited to Nick Trost.

PREDESTINED is for platform performances. You can use a Jumbo pack of cards and four cardboard plates. You will make this up in a few minutes and have a good program item. The working is simplicity itself but, being more interested in the presentation possibilities...

The dye tube reimagined. The silk color change is no longer stale and boring.

The Dye Tube is Devious: "What? The old Dye Tube? Devious? Most magicians will say no the dye tube is not even remotely devious. It is stale, boring, and blaaa."

I say yes, the dye tube is incredibly devious when handled differently than the traditional handling of the last 100 years. Let's make your dye tube a valued part of your EDC Every Day Carry again.

Devious is defined as insidious, deceitful, not straightforward; shifty or crooked. Imagine professional magicians using these terms to describe your...