Magic & Conjuring: page 17

A great trick for kid shows, especially at Halloween. Two kids take an equal turn at removing apples from a bowl. Yet one child ends up with 5 apples and the other 2 apples. Baffling to an audience. Magician directs from a distance.

These are some of the most unusual effects ever developed for a stand-up performer. Effects your audiences haven't seen before. These routines are based on an ancient close-up effect that has been revised so it can be seen on the largest stage or in someone's living room. You can work this under any conditions with no angle problems or special props. Routines...

The Jastrow illusion is known to magicians as the boomerang illusion. Two boomerang-shaped ring segments seem to be of different sizes but are in fact identical.

Magicians tend to underestimate the power of this simple trick. Its use in magic is limited to children's entertainers and magic kits. This illusion is more powerful than it seems at first sight. A recent viral video shows that its deceptive power is as strong as it was when first discovered almost 150 years ago.

The Jastrow Illusion in Magic ebook provides an in-depth review of the psychology of this illusion and a detailed overview...

Most productions are usually from some kind of suspicious looking box that screams magic prop. This is the old-fashion way, time to step into modern times and do away with fake looking boxes that look like something only a magician would have.

With this method, the performer enters with an everyday magazine, such as People magazine. It is held carelessly in his right hand. He flips the pages showing it is an unprepared copy of Time, People or any other publication.

In truth, it IS absolutely unprepared! He tears off the cover and shows it on both sides using just his left hand. He then...

C Through is an effect where you visually push a torn off corner of a spectator's selected card into an empty tic tac box. The spectator can check the corner to confirm that it matches their card.

1. No gimmicks
2. Visual and direct
3. Everything is examinable
4. The spectator can hold the box and can keep it after the effect
5. You can also do it with bills
6. Easy to do
7. Quick reset

1st edition 2016, length 7min 44s

"Gregg Webb has written an unvarnished, tell-it-like-it-is memoir of his life within and on the fringes of New York City's subculture of magic and magicians. If you want to know what it was like growing up for over half a century with David Roth, Charles Reynolds, Jeff McBride and other magic luminaries of New York, Gregg lays it all out, frankly, as he saw it." - Stephen Minch

"Gregg Webb is one of the Zen Masters of close up and parlor magic. He is a master of minimalism. His effects and streamlined thinking inspire me to do more with less!" - Jeff McBride, Las Vegas Headliner

"To begin, I feel...

Trick Tac is an effect where you balance a Tic tac box in an impossible way on your finger. It is very easy to do and once you made the gimmick it lasts you for a long time.

Consider these:

1. No glue, wax, magnets etc.,
2. Everything is examinable
3. Can be done with or without tictacs in the box
4. Quick reset

1st edition 2016, length 7 min.

This is the book that tells the truth about cards, dice, punch boards, gambling wheels, races, and all other kinds of gambling.

Don't be a sucker! The Open Book reveals how crooked gamblers, cheats, and con artists fleece the innocent and unwary public out of thousands of dollars daily. Even that carnival game at the local fairgrounds may not be as innocent as it looks. Get the inside scoop.

Valuable secrets of marked cards, gaffed dice, ink formulas, holdouts and other cheating devices -- all clearly explained. Also included are scams and cons used by the unscrupulous to bilk the unwary....

Reminiscences of Charles H. Foster who some consider the most gifted and remarkable spiritual medium since Emanuel Swedenborg. This account gives facts and descriptions of many seances held in different parts of the world.

This is a fascinating account of Charles H. Foster's story - a medium who exhibited mostly skin writing (dermography) and pellet reading. When Foster visited England in 1861 materialization phenomena were added to his performances.

Foster enjoyed drinking alcohol and smoking cigars in barrooms with his companions as much as he did transmitting messages from the dead....

• Foreword
• Yrutnec Hteitnewt
• Coin Materialisation
• The Coins Disappear
• Ring Penetration
• The Patriotic Change
• The Inca Ring
• Two Colour Production Tube
• Two In One
• Riffle Rice
• A Ribbon Mystery
• The Dove Mat Illusion
• The Travelling Flame
• Thimble Penetration
• Mr. Rabbit
• A Stacked Deck
• Kleenex Production
• Looped Rope Through Neck
• Rope Through Neck
• Silk Chain
• Production Of A Silk
• The Dancing Rings And Umbrella Finale

Ring

A ten phase, powerhouse visual routine, done with just one ring. Each phase is modular leaving you the opportunity to do each phase, one phase or mix them up.

Damn Gum

Remove a piece of gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe. Simply change it into the inner wrap of the gum package; change it again into a full, store bought pack of gum. Take out a piece of gum, eat it or give the piece to your spectator.

S.C.T.B (Signed Coin Thru Bill)

Borrow a bill, borrow a coin. Have the spectator sign the coin. Fold the bill in half and place the coin inside the bill. Crimp the coin inside...

Ravi has a real knack for making use of normal, everyday objects as part of his repetoire. His tricks are highly visual, easy to do and they get great reactions in the real world. It won't take you an age to competently perform Ravi's effects - invest a short time to practice and then you can deliver accomplished results without any complicated sleight of hand or unnecessary, complex routining. In short, you'll be amazing people before you know it!

'Real Counterfeit Money' is a terrific money change effect and 'Corner Light' is a spectacularly devious little number - leaving part of a spectator's...

If you love scams, hustles, cons, bar betchyas, flim-flam, stings, snow jobs, bamboozles, chicanery, shams, fixes, baloney, and other dirty tricks then this ebook is for YOU!

In this follow-up to his popular eBook How to Sell Bridges, David Devlin teaches the finer points of some of the many scams and hustles that have made him a lot of money. He also discusses some of the more elaborate cons that have been used throughout history and the cons who pulled them off. Also discussed are cons used today including selling ridiculous products, phony business "opportunities", scamming major corporations out of thousands...

Only an experienced performer could write a practical book of this kind. No theories, but facts and tested procedures - that are invaluable when put into practice. Therefore, you are not only getting an ebook containing original tricks, moves and routines, but information that will pay you dividends, be you beginner, amateur or professional.

You will love Monk's natural breezy style - and while you are absorbing the splendid advice on acquiring the professional touch in your performance, you will get many a chuckle in the bargain. Chapters embrace the following subjects:

• Lets Have A Reason...

Magic enabled by double sided tape.

This ebook will show you how to place a coin at the tips of your fingers and, in full view of the audience, cause that coin to vanish in an instant! All this without the use of a pull. You may shake your hands vigorously to prove that nothing is contained therein. You then proceed to produce coin after coin from mid-air - you will produce a number of coins, not just one. With this new method of palming it is possible for the magician to work in short sleeves (or, for that matter, with no sleeves at all). You can show both hands convincingly empty and at...

• The Call of the East
• The Wandering Bottle
• The Repeat Six Card Trick
• Es-Ta Burnt and Restored Handkerchief

1st edition 1949 (Calcutta, India), PDF 4 pages

From the Foreword:

Borrow a ring and a set of keys and visually link the ring onto the keyring with a tap. Impromptu and clean, nothing to find. The ring is seen to go right through the keyring with only a tap, highly visual and undeniable, then you let go of the ring and let it hang from the keyring clearly and unmistakably. After they confirm that that is their ring hanging from the keyring, you melt the ring back off the keyring where you tapped it, and hand everything back, completely clean.

1st edition 2016, length 7 minutes.

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Coin Section
  • Single-Handed Vanish of Four Coins: especially for use with the Hughes' Coin Tray
  • Disappearance by Misdirection: of a single coin
  • Flying Coins: coins are dropped into a folded handkerchief and vanish
• Card Section
  • Something New in Top Changes
  • Leading Them up the Garden Path: using the Top Change
  • Everybody's Card: top change and dealing 2nds
  • All Change: Card A is placed on the table, Card B inserted to middle of deck. Card B is found on top of the deck, Card A in the middle, and the card on the table is a 3rd card
  • Vanishing Faces: cards appear...

This is the sequel to Slow Sleights and again includes a variety of moves for billiard balls, cards, thimbles, silks and cigarettes.

• Preface
• A Billiard Ball Flourish
• Third-Finger Vanish
• The Improved Ball Twist-Over
• The Finger-Clip Ball Vanish
• One-Handed Colour Change
• The Improved Drop Vanish
• The Perfect False Count
• The Invisible Card Change
• The Mysterious Twelve
• A Neat Thimble Vanish
• The “Sudden" Thimble Vanish
• A Little-Finger Vanish
• Thimble Through The Hand
• The Elusive Handkerchief Thimble
• A Thimble Vanish From Handkerchief
• A Thimble Constantly Passes From Hand To Hand
• A Twist-Over...

Mainly billiard balls but also thimbles, cards, coins and silks.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Billiard Balls
  • The Production Drop
  • The Best Change-Over Palm
  • An Easy Transfer Palm
  • Twist-Over Acquitment
  • Vanish from a Full Hand
  • A Colour Change in the Fist
  • The Fadeaway Vanish
  • The Enlarged Ball
  • The Drop Vanish
  • A Ball Passes Continuously From Hand to Hand
  • Color Change on Palm
  • Improvement on Standard Acquitment
  • Four Billiard Balls to a Cannon Ball
• Thimbles
  • A "Steal" Thimble Vanish
  • The "In and Out" Thumb Vanish
  • Vanish of Two Thimbles
• Coins
  • Special Coin Tourniquet
• Cards ...

• 102 tricks you can learn quickly and amaze and mystify your friends
• tricks with cards, coins, toothpicks
• puzzles
• mindreading
• no special apparatus required
• each trick is fully illustrated

• Checker Jumping
• Goblet Juggling
• Stars And Circle Trick
• Levitation
• Phantom Coin
• One Or Two
• He Drinks
• Presto! Change - O!
• Coin Vanish Secret
• Painless Surgery
• An Obedient Match Box
• Mind Reader
• Hole In Your Hand
• Card Tossing
• Houdini's Knife Trick
• Vanishing Dime
• Hypnotized Cigar
• Takes Practice ... But
• Do Your Eyes Lie?
• Four Ace Production
• Think Of A Number
• Rising Cigarettes ...

A compilation of effects by magic notable H. Adrian Smith including Modern Card Miracle, Magic Square, Twentieth Century Billiard Ball Trick, and an Effective Handkerchief stretch. 16 effects in all plus a introduction from Percy Abbott.

• Introduction
• Twentieth Century Billiard Ball Trick
• New Card to the Pocket
• A Modern Card Miracle
• A Different Conclusion
• Sympathetic Aces
• Matching the Aces
• A Sucker Mental Effect
• A New Click Pass
• The Coins Up the Sleeve
• Passing Four Coins to a Glass
• A Further Variation of the Passing of the Four Coins
• An Effective Handkerchief Stretch
• Untying a...

This ebook is profusely illustrated by Ed Mishell and includes tricks, tips, presentations, publicity, patter and ideas. Clever and ingenious routines, many with standard props or none at all.

• Preface
• One Man's Opinion
• Costly Cover
• A Funny Bill Bit
• Smooth Floating Ball
• Karger's Coin Stack
• Through The Ribbon
• Cigarette Machine
• Coin Catching Comedy
• Flash Tv Frame
• Brainwave Deck Gag
• Baker Slate Tip
• Much Into Little
• Torn Center Tip
• Buzz Saw Ideas
• Four Ink Spots
• Move For Mentalists
• Knife Through Coat
• Shooting A Candle
• Bubble Gum Magic
• Squaring The Circle
• Silk In Box
• Three...

Nicely illustrated routines of a full-time performer.

From the introduction: