Magic & Conjuring: page 38

Use your VCR as a video prediction chest!

Add amazing, audience-tested effects to your act, including French Postcards, Jokers Wild, Batter Up!, Break the Bank, Headlines of the Past, Mental Shopping, Lucifer's Lexicon, Movie-ola, Mental Lottery, and many others.

The subtle methods are broken into chapters where you'll discover the Three Outs Principle, The Multiple Outs Principle, the Index Principle, The Ultima Principle, and more. The author had previously sold this work only through Micky Hades' Seattle retail shop, which has since closed. The material in this ebook is just too good...

Mental Magic, Close-Up, Ropes, Money, Handkerchief, Cards, Stage and TV Tricks, Novelty Magic, and Behind the Curtain (tips on presentation, business, etc.)

• Preface
• Chapter One: Mental Magic
  • In The Crystal
  • Ball-Point Prediction
  • Palm Writing
  • Torn Centre Application
  • Blindfold Vision
  • Third Sight
  • Chalk Mark Telepathy
  • Think Of An Object
  • Think Of A Man
  • Find The Pin
  • Chairback Transmission
  • Getting The Chalk
  • Colours
  • Afterthought
  • Super Date Sense
  • Stage Version
  • Impromptu Version
  • Predicting The Winner
• Chapter Two: Close-Up Conjuring
  • Flame Up
  • A Glass Vanish
  • My Glass Through...

A very visual vanish of a common item: a chewing gum. You take a gum with two fingers and with a smooth movement the gum disappears into thin air.

• Easy to perform and easy to make.
• Visual and practical.
• Make the gimmick in 3 minutes.

Note: TV rights not included with purchase. Please contact Sultan Orazaly if you want to perform this on TV.

1st edition 2024, video 6:41.

Also known as "Ne Plus Ultra" and "Bonus Genus", this was a favorite pocket trick at the turn of the century. Even Houdini was known to have fashioned a crude version of this out of a scrap of wood. Modern day toy companies create small dolls that make handcrafted ones a thing of the past. We located an ideal version at a local 99¢ store, it's a small figurine of a cherub playing on a flute.

EFFECT: A small doll is covered with a cloth. The cloth has a hole in the center, out of it protrudes the doll's head. The head is allowed to drop into the folds of the cloth. Immediately the cloth is shaken...

Vanish small objects such as a coin, sponge ball, poker chip, card corner from your bare hand.

The construction of the gimmick requires some arts and crafts. The method produces a sound that you need to be able to mask with music or some other way. Also, you will have to watch your angles. This method works fine for a social media video or perhaps on stage but is otherwise not very practical.

1st edition 2022, video 9:49.

Here's an ebook of clever and original ideas and routines for standard parlor and club effects.

Originally published as a limited edition booklet by the manufacturer of the Mysto Magic Set, the authors have contributed several excellent performance ideas that will delight your audience.

In addition, the authors have supplied instructions for creating updated fekes and gimmics to perform popular tricks, such as producing a rabbit from an empty hat or performing the Aerial Treasury effect. An excellent ebook of audience-tested magic.

Here's an example. Imagine if a magician walks up to you and asks...

Full title is: Original Creation for Magicians Hitherto Kept "Up His Sleeve". Waller was a highly creative magician.

• Publisher's Note
• Introduction
• Perverse Magic
  • "The Cantankerous Handkerchief"
  • "The Golliwog Ball"
  • "The Impish Card"
• "The Secret Tube"
  • "The Growth of Flowers"
• The Nest of Boxes
• The Rising Cards
• The Mountain of Flags
• "A Four Ace Climax"
• The "Turn Over" Force
• The "Rainbow" Force
• Full or Empty
• The Big Production
  • A Basket of Flowers
  • The Big Bowl
• "The Fourth Dimension"
• Charlie Chaplin and "Spooky Ookum"
• The Utility Fans
• The Candle That Was
• "In the...

These are notes for one of Jerry's lectures. It helps if you saw the lecture as only the essential workings are provided, but the drawings and details are sufficient to make out most of the effects. References several moves taught in Andrus Deals You In without providing the specifics.

• Vanishing Pen
• Pen Under Cards
• Reversing Pen
• Pill Tube Mystery
• Rope And Handkerchie
• Twin Pipes
• Tube Steal
• Tube Load
• False Load
• Extra Ball Move
• Lap Vanish
• Fist Vanish
• Slow Motion Vanish
• Ball Vanish
• A Utility Move
• A Routine For Twin Pipes
• Geiger Counter Routine
• They Pick The Aces
• Fan Reverse
• Torn Card
• "How It’s...

Slydini's major routines take a lot of time to learn. But Slydini wanted his students to be able to go out and perform magic sooner to work on the performance and presentational aspects of their magic. To enable this he would teach his students from time to time smaller tricks which one could learn quicker but which often still incorporated one or the other of his fundamental principles of magic. This is a collection of these smaller tricks Slydini taught Dennis. They are a great gateway into the magic of Slydini because they do not require large commitments of time and effort to be mastered, yet they...

A superb selection of items from the professional repertoire of Roy Johnson. Mentalism, comedy and visual magic with cards, books, rope, keys, shoe laces, music, fire and razor. Revealed are some of Roy's most closely guarded secret methods. Much of Roy's own patter is included for you to use, or adapt to your own style. The methods given are simple and effective, leaving you to concentrate on the "job in hand" ... entertainment!

• Foreword
• Music Maestro
• The Key
• Key Cords
• To Hell And Back
• The Library
• Again The Library
• The Card In Anything
• Hyp-Knot-Ic
• Impaled

1st edition 1995,...

Here is another classic magic book by Lewis Ganson with effects by Ken Brooke, Peter Warlock, Cy Endfield, Marconick, Tonny van Dommelen and others.

c1950, 59 pages

Table of Contents

2. Introduction
5. Chapter 1: Free Choice
11. Chapter 2: Cy Endfield's Card Penetration and Change
15. Chapter 3: Bags of Everything
21. Chapter 4: Eddie Ward's Zombie Card Rise
23. Chapter 5: Three Penetration Effects
23. (a) Bertram Millidge's New Move with the Jardine Ellis Ring
24. (b) Silk Through Ring
25. (c) Silk through Silk
27. Chapter 6: Ken Brooke's Knot-Out plus a simple routine for the Sympathetic Silks
33. Chapter 7: Ken Brooke's Presentation of the Vanishing...

Excerpt from the introduction:

• Close-Up
  • Giant Cigarette Production
  • Large Match-Stick Production
  • A Sweet Cigarette
  • Sponge Coins
  • An Idea For The Sponges
  • Another Sponge Ball Routine
  • Business Card Intro
  • Chopped Prices
  • Impromptu Ring Penetration
• Ideas For
  • Grown Up Hofzinser (Roy Walton Routine)
  • Ring In Rubik Cube
  • Levitated Deck
  • Pen And Con Starter
  • Paint Brush Variation
  • Vanishing Lighter Flame
  • Vanishing Pocket Watch
• Cards
  • Triple Card To Pocket
  • Mistaken Identity
  • Definitely Between Your Palms
  • Everywhere And Nowhere
  • Same Order Face Up Count
• Stand-Up (Cabaret)
  • Poem For Dai Vernon's Symphony Of The Rings
  • A Knot To Pluck
  • Poem For A...

Routines using the extra object principle.

Three small objects are shown, two are placed into the left hand and the third one into a pocket. On opening the left hand, not two but THREE objects are seen. This is repeated a few times, the effect becoming more bewildering as the routine proceeds. In some versions, the objects eventually vanish or are transformed into something different.

From this basic theme, a whole range of tricks has been evolved, the objects employed being almost anything of such a size that can be concealed in the hands.

This was part of the famous Ganson Teach-In...

• Foreword
• The Disjointed Finger
• Ashes Of The Sun
• Block And Ribbon Penetration
• More Beads On A String
• Burnt And Restored
• Tape Through The Wrist
• Sympathetic Light
• A Ring Release
• A New Thumb Tie
• Coin And Handkerchief
• Cut And Restored Rope
• Easy Diminishing Cards
• Impromptu Card Rising
• Two Person Card Code
• The Penetrative Coins
• Novel Re-Appearing Coin
• Silent Change-Over For Several Coins
• Ace-King Passe Passe
• The "T.S." Glass Penetration
• A Good-Night Cigar

1st edition 1943, 20 pages; PDF 19 pages.

In this work, we find for the first time the popular Out-to-lunch principle (see for example Anagramation by Jim Krenz) being published.

From the introduction:

This is a nicely illustrated manuscript describing a range of parlor tricks. At the end you will find three articles that still hold a lot of truth even after decades when they have been written.

1st edition 1936, PDF 19 pages

• TRICKS
  5. 1. Triple Transposition
  6. 2. British Made
  7. 3. Magical Book Covering
  8. 4. The Homing Liquids
  8. 5. Balancing a Handkerchief
  9. 6. Bluff
  9. 7. Box 0' Chocs
  10. 8. Twice Twenty-Six
  11. 9. Poppies and Perfume
  12. 10. Transparent Transformation
  13. 11. Buddha's Shrine
  14. 12. The Blossoming Desert
• ARTICLES
  15. An Act "Borrowed from the Audience"
  16. Revolution Needed ? ...
  17. More Publicity...

• Card In Glass
• Paper Balls And Hat
• 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Cards To Pockets
• The Hindu Thread Trick
• Electro Chemical Stop
• Take A Card!
• The Talking Skull

This edition features a completely different routine for MacDonald's Aces and a simple way to make the gaffs yourself. This is more of a platform or parlor version and not a close-up trick. The patter and presentation are also completely different from MacDonald's Aces. This is also different from the version in Hilliard's Lost Notebook. Gregg performed this on TV in 1968 long before Hilliard's notebook was even found. If you pride yourself on being different from the crowd, you'll love this. A very catchy storyline and premise is included.

Next follows many updates on a trick of Gregg's,...

In this mixed props issue from Gregg Webb, it starts out with some magic news, and a book review, and an essay on how today's audiences want shorter tricks, and why.

Next we have a devilish coin trick, Rolled - or Pennies South, where a whole lot of pennies penetrate the table. Following this is The World's Fastest Cups and Balls Routine. In the essay provided in the magic news section is an essay on how magicians often go too long because they can, and why not to fall prey to that impulse these days.

Lastly comes Gregg's latest version of a series of methods for doing a mental version...

Triplets is a new series by Gregg Webb with three items each - tricks and essays. This first ebook in this series features "Cleverness", a two-card transpo, a coin routine that was inspired by Milt Kort's famous shot glass coin routine, and "Behold the Invisible Knife", a routine most suitable for a kids show.

"Gregg Webb is one of the most creative minds in Magic. For over 40 years he has been inspiring me with his contributions to our art." - Jeff McBride

1st edition 2022, PDF 7 pages.

This book is the trick section of Sensational Tales of Mystery Men. Goldston felt that the trick section was the part that magicians would be most interested in and thus made it available as a separate book.

• Introduction
• The Newest Chinese Bat
• The Thought Reader
• Performing Matches
• The Best Penetrating Coin
• A Borrowed Handkerchief Burned
• A Mysterious Match
• Swallowing A Solid Wand
• Which Cigarette?
• The Vanished Egg
• The Expanding Egg
• The Newest Card Changing Box
• The G. W. Hunter Pull
• Cigarettes...

Tricks, sleights, and routines with watches.

Paul Fleming wrote:

All of these clever tricks use magnets in one way or another.

• Buddha Coin Mystery
• Fortune Telling Coin
• Cup Levitation
• Grant's Match Penetration
• Mental Detection
• Living and Dead Test
• Clever Coin Vanish
• Sliding Glue
• Improved Sliding Glue
• Psychic Lock And Keys
• Rising Cards And Wand
• Coin Through Block
• Box - Cover and Coin
• Tip-See Pencil
• Improved Imp Bottle
• Improved Wands and Cords
• Stopping A Watch
• Handkerchief Box
• Nu-Coin
• Rolling Cigarettes
• Adams Coin Box
• Magnetic Cigar
• Three Shell Game
• Number Detection
• Mystery Man

PDF 15 pages