Magic & Mentalism: page 8

A simple but dramatic magic effect just for Halloween. A paper sack is blown up and popped for aloud Bang! A second sack has a multi-colored scarf dropped in by a spectator, then inflated and popped. Bang! But this time there is a shower of colored specs in the air as a ghostly white silk floats to the ground.

1st edition 2021, PDF 1 page.

Numbers have tremendous power. They rule life and the universe. There is no living being, molecule, event, evolution that cannot be described with an algorithm, a mathematical formula. Numbers, everywhere. From the speed of light to the circumference of the earth, to the inhabitants of the world, to the ATM pin. And then your lucky number, the number of destiny, bad luck, infinity ...

In my methodical (and obstinate) search for effects to be proposed on the phone, numbers are the absolute protagonist. Except for a few small tricks, they are all a consequence of one or more mathematical...

These are the notes to Aldo Colombini's lecture from 1999.

• the K.I.S.S. Formula
• The Rule Of Three
• Hand Language
• Be Natural
• Use The Spectators' Brain
• Holmes Vs Moriarty
• Punch Meets His Match!
• Twice
• Point Of No Return
• Contact Colors
• Aces A Go-Go
• You Can Count On Them
• Coin Wrap
• Italian Emotional Bonding
• Telecard Across
• A Book Is Better
• Trifle
• Chinese Purse
• Deep Impact
• Stand Up

1st edition 1999, PDF 33 pages.

From the introduction:

• AUTHOR'S NOTE
• THE PRINCE OF WALES AS A CONJURER
• THOUGHT-READING TRICKS
  • Mind-Reading Magic
  • Seeing Through the Envelopes
  • Reading the News
  • A Remarkable Card Trick
  • Another Code
  • The Domino Trick
  • The Tell-Tale Touch
  • A Six-Fold...

From the introduction:

• Introduction ...

From the introduction:

• Introduction
• The "Baffla" Card Detection
• "A Record Mystery"
• A Card And Cigarette Conception
• "Obstructing The Line"
• "Mystery Ribbons"
• The Necromancer's Notebook
• Cigarette Card Magic
• A "Miraculous" Change
• "Twentieth Century" Tissues
• A Colour Metamorphosis ...

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:

Cards, coins, ropes, and rings.

From Lothar Malmberg's introduction:

• Introduction
• Turn Over Revelation: Two selected cards are revealed in a spectacular way!
• Boom-Boomer!
• Twice Cato: Two cards are...

• "Travelling Balls"
• A "Sense Of Touch" Deception
• "Mephisto's Matches"
• The Ring And The Cord
• Simplified Fishing
• A Coin Surprise
• "Threading The Disc"
• The "Turnover" Card
• A Triple Matchbox Mystery

1st edition 1928; PDF 23 pages.

cards, coins, ropes, balloons, thimbles

Aldo likes simple easy-to-do magic that is direct and to-the-point. This is a great collection of forty routines with cards, coins, ropes and rings, balloons, thimbles, something for everyone. Many of the routines are close-up oriented, but you will find unique gems for stage or parlor, too.

• Introduction
• On The "Professor's Nightmare"
• Rope Just Chance
• Vice-Versa
• Up Your Sleeve!
• The One In The Middle
• Bubbles
• That Professor Is A Nightmare!
• Blowing In The Wind
• Gong
• Computer Prediction
• Catching The Wind
• Stabbed Revelation
• Get Off My Spread ...

Cybercup is a fast attention grabber with nothing but a pen that sits in your pocket. Based on a well-known handling, this effect will fool your spectators.

Do it for yourself in front of a mirror. You'll fool yourself, so strong is the illusion.

Cybercup is a fast, visual, and interactive effect. Whether you are a miracle worker, salesperson, event host, or public speaker, this will help you break the ice and engage people in an instant.

The effect has been created to be remarkably visual on camera - whether that's using Zoom, FaceTime, Instagram Live, YouTube, or Skype. Your (digital)...

• "Curious Crayons"
• The "Bes-Tof-Al" Sympathetic Blocks
• Cigarette Transposition
• "The Gold Block"
• "The Mandarin's Fan"
• Groom's Rope Miracle

1st edition 1930; PDF 21 pages.

Can we move beyond the basic silk vanish? Can we do anything more magical than the old bill change? Can you improve on the basic salt vanish? The answer is, "Yes!". It all starts with your handling of the thumb tip.

I have almost 200 very magical effects that I perform with the basic thumb tip and people never see or even suspect a thumb tip. The secret to skyrocketing your thumb tip skills is to learn how to handle the thumb tip.

Not a day goes by that I don't get asked about how to match a thumb tip color to an individual skin tone. Everyone is concerned about someone seeing it. My...

This guide will take you step by step through the process of learning the thirteen absolute best DIY thumb tip modifications for magicians. These modifications will allow you to make your thumb tip a lot more sneakier. You will be able to move your handling to a whole new level.

Some of the modifications will allow you to handle liquids. Some modifications will allow you to handle granules like pepper, sand, or salt. And yes, some modifications will allow you to do both within one modified tip.

You will discover modifications that will allow you to handle the thumb tip in incredibly...

A brand new lecture for 2022. This set of notes brings the live lecture footage directly to you with nearly 20 video clips and live performances.

• 140 pages
• Access to 17 video clips and performance footage
• Access to a secret website with bonus content.
• 12 effects
• 12 rapid-fire ideas / effects
• A total of 24 items!

Bermuda Box: A fun way to use a Gozinta Box set as something more magical than a mere puzzle.

The Man with the two Dollar Hands: An easy two in the hand, one in the pocket presentation.

Money to Burn: Make a drawing of a chosen coin turn into a real coin with no...

This is the sixth and final part of the series.

• The Flyaway Blocks
• Reel Magic
• The Cuban Cubes
• The Crystal-Gazer
• "About Turn"
• Discs Of Enchantment
• The Chinese Cashbox

1st edition 1932; PDF 22 pages.

This can be the most powerfully deceptive steal or vanish in your thumb tip arsenal. No, it is not the Slydini Back Steal or the Vernon Kick Steal.

"This is the best 10 minutes of thumb tip magic ever! Thank you so much Hal." - Kim Fitzpatrick

The Ultimate Angle Proof Vanish video is by far the number one video download I have ever offered on the thumb tip. This is an incredibly deceptive, under your nose steal or vanish for not just a silk, but anything you can possibly fit in a thumb tip. Performed slow and with no wacky hand movements or gestures or crazy sleights; I believe this is the best...

Bob Haskell's genius for brilliant story plots and well-thought-out mechanics made him a master of cabaret and platform magic. The inventor of such masterpieces as the Split Deck and the X-Salted Shaker digs deep into his performing repertoire to give you 17 of his favorites. Ranging from effects with cards, rope, a beautifully animated silk mystery, and a pair of mysteries using the "tap-it" principle, there's something within these pages for almost any necromancer worth his (or her) salt.

Here's magic for the performer who's up on basic card sleights and/or who can handle an effect using...

This isn't your fathers magnetic thumb tip. Your tipistry reimagined and revolutionized. Tipistry means breathtaking thumb tip handling ability, competence, proficiency, or mastery.

This guide will show you how to dramatically improve your thumb tip ability (Tipistry) with magnets. How can something so simple and so overlooked be so amazing? One person posted on a forum many years ago and said, "Don't get a magnetic tip. You can do anything you can do with a magnetic tip with a PK Ring." (Magnetic ring). Nope. No way. Totally misguided. Absolutely untrue. Poor fellow, bless his heart. He...

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...

• I. The Bones of Contention
• II. A Lesson in Deception
• III. Name Your Choice
• IV. One Handed Magic
• V. A Promising Pupil
• VI. The Wicked Wizard and the Perplexed Parson
• VII. All Smoke
• VIII. The Rude Spirit
• IX. Inexplicable Precipation
• X. The Zancig Cards
• XI. A Mix Up
• XII. Dressing Dolly
• XIII. Make Weight

1st edition 1917, 32 pages; PDF 29 pages.

From the Foreword by David Devant:

• A Foreword
• "Ladies & Gentlemen"
• Natural Selection
• Shuffle For Arranged Pack
• Aerial Treasury Up-to-Date
• The Celebrity Trick
• Thought Control
• A Card Location Idea
• A Fruity Experiment
• A Use For The Charlier Pass
• A Special Table & Suggestions therewith
• Chameleon Balls and Water
• False Shuffle For Arranged Pack
• A New Precipitation of Cards
• A Black Art Chair
• The Dictionary Trick
• Hammond's Method for Arranged Pack of Cards ...

This guide will take you step by step through the process of learning the Pepper In and Salt Out Transformation and Vanish. This trick or effect is designed for beginner to advanced magicians. You will learn moves and handling that will serve you very well in dozens of other effects. There are several twists and turns that are very uncommon and not found in the normal salt/pepper shaker routines seen in the magic universe today.

Four things make this effect very special.

1. Spectator Involvement. The spectator pours pepper from a pepper shaker into the closed fist of the magician.
2. The...

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• About Roy Baker
• "Stuck-Kup"
• "Catch The Cup"
• Cigarette Through Handkerchief Baker Style
• Roy Baker's Method Of "Knife Thro' Coat"
• Two Stunts With A Pen
• It's Getting Larger
• The...