Magic & Conjuring: page 4

• The Spirit Guide
• A Paddle Routine
• The Impromptu Rising Card
• The Elongated Cigarette
• New Rising Cards
• Flip Flap
• The Tell Tale Scytale
• The Ribbon Pyramid
• Two Silks Vanish
• Off And On Again
• Change Over Cards
• The Jumping Ring
• The T.S. Find The Lady
• Winged Cigarettes
• On Again - Off Again
• Balls And Pillar
• An Old Trick Simplified
• The Winner
• It's Just Chance
• The Name On The Slate
• Living And Dead

• The Flying Coins
• Ball Production For Club Workers
• Thimble Production
• Choice Restored
• The Web Handkerchief Production
• Black Art Milk Vanish
• A "Stag" Party Pack
• Tele - Refreshment Bar
• The Hoop Un-Looped
• The Surp-Rising Cigarette
• Which End?
• Finding A Card At Any Number
• The Girl Behind The Door
• Silk Sympathy
• Bar And Chains Escape
• Sleight For Gloved Workers
• The T.S. Sack Escape
• Date Plus Your Age
• Lay-Out Speller
• A Mental Tip
• Entertaining With Words
  • (1) Marriage And Divorce
  • (2) Lazy Bones
  • (3) Backwards And Forwards
• Effective Four Ace Trick
• Leap Year Card Trick

• Through The Eye Of A Needle
• Repeat Torn Paper
• The Restored Spill
• Sex Detection
• Number Prediction
• Dictionary Test
• A Sliding Card Frame
• The Rising Cards
• A Card Flourish
• A Colour Force
• A Different "Pick-It-Out" Trick
• Burnt And Restored
• Blendo
• Word Magic
• Four Colour Change Pencil
• Copper To Silver
• Hand To Hand
• Coin From Smoke
• A Deceptive Coin Pass
• Passe Passe Coins
• The Separated Coins
• Penetration
• Coins And Papers
• Rising And Revolving Candle

From the foreword:

• Foreword
• A Production Box
• Coin On Knife Or Sword
• From Match To Match
• "Give Me A Light, Please"
• The Haunted Chair
• A Magnetic Pencil
• The Floating Paper
• Spirit Rapping
• The "Finder" Pencil
• The Cork Returns
• A New Changing Or Producing Canister
• Calendar Book Test
• Novel Book Test
• A Flower Growth
• Liquid Transposition
• The Ghost Taps
• "Mystify Yourself!" Ribbon And...

Here's an expanded and updated edition of a Paul Curry manuscript that contains not one, but two powerful effects that will give you a reputation as an outstanding magician and psychic entertainer.

Probability Zero

A batch of business cards are numbered and mixed, with their number sides down. A truly sensational climax is reached when a spectator, although he selects the cards at random and doesn't know the numbers on the cards, succeeds in arranging them in numerical order. Is it just chance? Not likely - the odds are over 300,000 to 1 against it.

The Color-Changing Deck

A new...

Here's an expanded and updated edition of the second and final Paul Curry manuscript in the series with a pair of powerful effects that'll give you a reputation as an outstanding magician and psychic entertainer. Both of these card miracles exhibit the brilliant methodology that you've come to expect from Paul Curry.

Think Of A Card

A spectator merely thinks of a card. The performer jots down the name of a card. The spectator names his card and the performer shows what he wrote - it's the name of the thought-of card. A clean-cut, logical effect.

Follow-up

This is a variation of the...

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:

The subtitle reads: Teaching you how to give a complete evening's entertainment of new conjuring tricks with highly-amusing patter, laughable ventriloquism and a diverting magical sketch.

From the introduction:

Like the title says, this collection of excellent effects will inspire you to become a better magician. Magic author and dealer Chas. Eastman has compiled a dozen great magical mysteries that you will enjoy performing. There's something here for performers of all skill levels. Contributors include Bob Weill, Harry Valcarte, Will Ross, R. S. Bailey, James D. Taylor, and more.

From the introduction by T.A. Whitney:

50 tricks with a bottomless glass.

Here's a clever collection of fifty tricks, tips, and ideas that you can do with a bottomless glass. Tricks you never thought possible can be done: mental effects, transpositions, color changes, vanishes, penetrations, comedy effects, productions, transformations, and more. Tricks with silks, coins, eggs, liquids, chains, cards, balls, smoke, sand, rings, dice, and much more.

Get this handy utility device out of your magic drawer and put it to work, with the help of this manuscript. You'll no doubt think of many other fine effects, once you've read it...

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.

Simplicity is the keynote of this effect, and you will be able to make up the item quickly and inexpensively.

A box rests upon the table. Performer announces that one solid article is inside, and he even opens the lid and bangs it against the base to prove it is there. He emphasizes that there is only one article. A spectator is asked to think of any card from a pack of 52 and then to name it. The lid of the box is opened, and the article is taken out. It is a glass tumbler containing a playing card, the back of which is towards the audience. The performer shows the inside of the box, dismantles...

A collection of conjuring secrets for magicians who entertain when surrounded by spectators.

Excerpt from the preface:

• Preface
• Publisher's Note
• Preparation For The Hands
• A Table Tip
• The Guinea-Pig
• Card Change
• Flap Disposal-Single Slate
• Cap And Pence
  • I. The Load ...

Introduce your business cards or credit cards in a fun new way.

EMERGE
Your Business Card / Credit Card or a Playing Card eerily emerges out of the inside compartment. [One time setup and you are good to go for hundreds of performances. The speed is completely under your control. Resets Instantly.]

CARD DART
Your Business Card / Credit Card jumps out of wallet. [Even for the laziest person set-up will takes less than 10 seconds]

Works with any regular bi-fold wallet. You can keep all your stuff in there and still perform these. Also included in the explanation is CARD DART II which is an impromptu take on it's earlier version.

(For the PDF please check your digital shelf.)

1st edition 2015, length 18 minutes....

Each ebook in the series will feature a single effect from Gregg's vast oeuvre. Whenever applicable, Gregg will present new handlings, suggestions, and presentations. The series follows Gregg's established style of graphics and hand-lettered text.

The effect, "The Key on the String," was originally published in Gregg Webb's ebook, The Shade.

1st edition 2019, 3 pages.

This effect was originally published in Gregg Webb's various newsletters as "Hit-and-Run" before landing in Genii Magazine as "Coins Across 2000." This Super Session is an improved and updated version. This ebook has hand-lettered text.

1st edition 2019, 5 pages.

This effect, "Nate Leipzig Poker Deal X," was originally published in Gregg Webb's ebook, The Lizard Wizard's Diary as part of his SOHO trilogy. This ebook has hand-lettered text.

1st edition 2019, 2 pages.

Gregg Webb presents ideas using an egg bag to conjure up socks and other items that vanish in clothing dryers. The trick uses an egg bag and suitable small pieces of clothing.

Required props:

• An egg bag (available through your favorite magic dealer)
• Small pieces of colorful clothing, such as brightly colored socks

• Present a mirthful magic trick that uses an egg bag to produce clothing that disappeared in your dryer.
• Create an alternate egg bag that resembles articles of clothing

1st edition 2021, PDF 2 pages.

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.

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...

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 article from Scribner's Monthly Magazine Henry Hatton, writing under the pseudonym of an 'Ex-Conjurer' explains in words and illustrations the Indian Box Mystery, the Spiritual Bench, the Inexhaustible bottle, including a funny accident that happened with it, and Marabout Mocca as performed by the elder Herrmann.

1st edition 1880, PDF 11 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...

This booklet doesn't deserve the name 'booklet', because it is packed with many wonderful effects using small objects, from cards and coins, to ropes and silks and everything in between. There is also a nice section on vesting and sleeving. Jean Hugard is one of the outstanding teachers and authors in magic. My friend Chuck has been vanishing an orange for the last forty years in much the same manner that this booklet reveals how to vanish a dinner plate. He also remembers reading of Blackstone Sr. performing some of these stunts. Whenever the author is Jean Hugard - read it!

Paul Fleming wrote: