Magic & Conjuring: page 318

A presentation for any book test that uses the flashback method.

Have you heard of the Bookbearer? This is a storytelling, bizarre presentation to be used with any book with the "flashback" principle. If you own such a book, you could use this.

I see many performers using such books, some presentations are good, but most are not as they merely riffle the pages, tell the subject to stop them and remember the first word on the page, and then reveal it. Bah. Here you will tell the brief story of the Bookbearer, and in the end, either subtly suggest you're the actual Bookbearer. Or that you're...

An impromptu 21-card trick on steroids.

From a deck shuffled by one spectator (S1), another spectator (S2) deals any 21 playing cards, singly and face down, in the palm of the magician. The remaining cards are discarded. Each spectator removes any card from the face-down pack. The magician shows the first card to S1 and cuts it into the pack. Same with S2.

Next, the magician deals the cards haphazardly in a few packets (each containing a different number of cards) on the table. They are all shuffled by S1 and S2. Then, in order to demonstrate how to gather the packets in a single pile,...

Excerpt from the Introduction:

Softcover booklet stapled in good condition. The staples have been removed. For the content see the digital edition.

Softcover booklet stapled in good condition. The staples have been removed. For the content see the digital edition.

Softcover booklet stapled in good condition. The staples have been removed. For the content see the digital edition.

Softcover booklet stapled in good condition. The staples have been removed. For the content see the digital edition.

If you're looking for a unique and quirky effect, Bammo Strange Attraction will fill the bill. A fortune teller's business card vanishes and appears attached to the back of a selected card (regular cards or Tarot cards). The manuscript includes the fortune teller's business card so you can print it out and use it for this and other effects. An additional routine by David Britland adds something seldom seen in psychic effects: a sense of humor. The routine requires a Himber or Z-Fold wallet.

1st edition 2024, PDF 11 pages.

A self-help book for magicians. Have you ever struggled to socialize when not performing magic tricks? Included here is how to use being a magician as an advantage instead of a disadvantage. Plus hygiene and etiquette tips.

Also includes five original routines from the author, including:

• Fedora fusion, an anniversary-waltz-style routine, that is simplified and uses an ordinary deck of cards.
• Mr Silk's candle, a silk-to-candle effect, with a description of how to make the cheap useful prop.
• How much? A money routine featuring an unusual place to hide a bill.
• Floss of poverty, a classic...

Time to open a can of whoop ass!

The business card of the fortune teller Madame Magdelaine De La Grange has been torn in two. The spectator retains one piece. The other piece vanishes and appears stuck to the back of the spectator's selected card. The piece retained by the spectator matches the piece on the card perfectly.

A bizarre effect without precedent.

No palming. No angles. Resets automatically. You will need a Himber or Z-fold wallet.

1st edition 2024, PDF 12 pages.

This effect was invented by Herbert Milton and made popular by Karl Germain. The improved method needs no double-faced cards and can be done impromptu providing the right type of glass is available. This visual effect can be performed at any time in your act and it may be done silently, with talk, or to music.

EFFECT: A shuffled deck of cards is placed in a stem goblet. Each time a handkerchief is flicked in front of the glass an ace appears.

1st edition 1981, PDF 2 pages.

Show an empty bottle (with or without contents) and borrow a coin. Wrap this coin in some paper and place it on the lid of the bottle. Take a lighter (can be borrowed) and light the paper. The coin visibly penetrates the lid of the bottle and lands inside the bottle. The bottle can be examined immediately and given away as a souvenir.

1st edition 2024, video 8:19

Vol. 19, No. 6, January 2024; 60 pages

Cover: Jack Rhodes

4. Magicseen Issue #114 - Editor's comments
4. The Team
4. What's Inside
6. Reader's Letters
8. Magic Amanda [Lindsey]: Spinning to Success - interview by Phil Shaw
16. Masterclass
    16. Make Love Not War - Vinny Sagoo
    18. Comedy Card Prediction - Ian Adair
20. How to Create Magical Moments at Every Table - Gary Jones
22. News - Renowned Las Vegas Mentalist Paul Draper Elected to Leadership Council of the Magic Circle
26. Promote Yourself
30. Jack Rhodes: The Future of Magic - cover article
40. The Bochord Club - Iain Moran
    • Scams & Fantasies with Cards - Darwin Ortiz
42. Approaching the...

The magician can't find the spectator's card but his prediction can.

In short:

The spectator cuts to a card, removes it from the deck and remembers it. Then, the magician shuffles the deck and divides it into two halves. The spectator shuffles both parts, loses his selection between them, and shuffles even more. At the end, the magician runs through the deck and removes a card, but it is not the spectator's. Fortunately, the magician has an "emergency out", a message on a piece of paper inside a red envelope, in full view from the start. The spectator reads it out loud:

A letter-by-letter revelation of somebody's birth sign that produces at most two No. Here is an example:

"What's your sign? Don't tell me! I'll read your mind. Here's a list of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Concentrate on yours. Now, mentally print it in big block letters. Look at it in your mind. Concentrate. I'll try to see what you see. When I make a statement please answer with a Yes or No. I see an R. Yes. I see an I. Yes. I see an A. Yes. I see an S. No. My error - it's an L. Yes. We're looking at Libra. Yes!"

1st edition ~1987, 3 pages; PDF 2 pages.

A prediction effect with an alphabet deck that fits in your pocket.

The magician picks four spectators to play a word game. He makes a prediction that he leaves face down, in full view, on the table and introduces a packet of alphabet cards: Thirteen cards with a different letter on both sides. Each spectator cuts, deals, and flips over the cards. The magician puts aside one card (a 'bonus card') and deals the rest of the cards among the four spectators.

The game is divided into two phases, a warm-up and the real deal.

THE WARM-UP: The spectators are asked to make up the longest word...

After a lengthy introduction, it describes and explains the performances of the muscle-reader Mr. Brown. It also describes and explains the performances of the brothers Outerbridge whose purpose it was to prove that these types of experiments are based on muscle-reading and not any other mysterious mental forces.

This talk was given before the Social Science Association on May 12th, 1875.

Persifor Frazer was an interesting character. For example, he was internationally respected as an expert on handwriting. He devised a process for detecting forgeries through composite photography, leading...

Find two thought-of E.S.P. cards without even looking at the deck.

A deck of 25 colored E.S.P. cards (a.k.a. Zener cards) is introduced. It contains five different symbols in five different colors. In other words, every card is unique. The magician shuffles the deck and tables it.

After he turns his back, two spectators remove a card from the deck. They create their own card — combining the symbol on one card and the color on the other card — and hide their selections face down under the cardbox.

The magician faces the spectators again and asks them to visualize their thought-of...

An effortless variation on the ACAAN plot where a thought-of card is found at the magician's predicted number.

The magician writes down a prediction on a business card before asking the spectator to make up a playing card:

• First, the magician divides the deck into two piles and the spectator decides which one will be the ''value'' pile and which one will be the ''suit'' pile.
• Then, the magician deals the top cards of each pile at the same time and keeps dealing the next cards until the spectator orders him to stop.
• Finally, the spectator uses the cards he stopped at and combines the...

The collaboration of T. Nelson Downs and John Northern Hilliard produced this wonderful book. Downs was the first to introduce an act with small objects onto the vaudeville stage. He was most famous for his coin manipulation, and in particular for his version of the "Miser's Dream". The Art of Magic covers sleights with cards, coins, and balls, and teaches many tricks and routines with detailed explanations from the master.

The card section in this book was epoch making. It features the first appearance in print of the side steal. Based on the number of pages dealing with card magic this is more a card book than...

1st edition 2011; 9 pages.

Cosa impari in questo ebook ?

• Cos'è l'ipnosi?
• Il mentalismo puro
• No trucchi da mago
• Presupposti perchè avvenga l'ipnosi
• Induzione per fissazione
• Distrazione della mente razionale e creazione del varco ipnotico PNL
• Associazioni mentali e ancoraggio
• Induzione per stretta di mano
• Interruzione dello schema, schock e confusione
• Illusione di alternative nell'induzione ipnotica
• Induzione Dave Elman
• Induzione istantanea (schock)
• Usare segnali e movimenti fisiologici per aumentare la suggestionabilità
• Autoipnosi
• Sperimenta la distorsione temporale
• Metodi psicologici della PNL ...

Si parla tanto di ipnosi, forse per la spettacolarità di alcune sue manifestazioni ma si trascura spesso l'utilità che può avere l'autoipnosi, ossia la possibilità di poter indurre autonomamente lo stato ipnotico su se stessi per ottenere uno stato di dissociazione mentale e attenzione focalizzata compatibile con l'accettazione delle suggestioni. Impara ad indurre l'ipnosi su te stesso e sfrutta la suggestione per comunicare con il tuo inconscio.

In questo ebook impari:

• Introduzione
• Funzionamento della mente e ipnosi
• Autoipnosi
• Suggestioni
• Epilogo

Negli ultimi anni grazie a grandi artisti e serie televisive di successo è aumentato enormemente l'interesse per l'utilizzo della PNL nell'illusionismo ed in particolare nelmentalismo. Questo libro non ha come scopo quello di approfondire le tecniche di PNL, per questo esiste una letteratura molto vasta,bensì di mettere al vaglio le tecniche della PNL mettendo in luce potenzialità,realizzabilità,pregi, difetti e limiti di tali tecniche in ambito illusionistico.

Con Programmazione neuromagica impari:

• Che cos'è la PNL?
• Uso della PNL nella magia-Tecniche di PNL nella magia
• PNL e ipnosi ...