Cigarettes, Candles, Matches & Fire

Two matchboxes are shown one at a time. The drawer is removed from the first box to show it is empty, and then having been replaced is set down on the table. The second box is opened to reveal the drawer is full of matches. Again this is closed and placed down well away from the first box. The performer then simply snaps his fingers and an amazing transposition is revealed to have taken place, as the first box is now full of the matches and the second box is shown to be empty.

This quick and surprising effect uses ungimmicked matchboxes.

video 5:59

You take a cigarette with two fingers and with a smooth movement the cigarette disappears into thin air.

• Easy to perform and easy to make. Requires some arts and crafts to make the gimmick, but only takes a few minutes to construct.
• Visual and practical. Watch your angles. This is only invisible from a restricted viewing angle.

1st edition 2022, video 10:25.

This small spring-loaded Bingo Shooting Device causes a loud bang by exploding a gunpowder cap.

According to its creator, S.S. Adams, ". . . It goes off with a loud bang when moved or disturbed. This little fun-maker can be used for jokes in a hundred different ways. Place it in a napkin or magazine, under a plate, cigarette box, hat, etc. [it’s] entirely harmless and always creates a big laugh."

Adams himself was known to install them in decks of playing cards, cigar boxes, books with risqué titles, and a whole lot more. Many of the ideas originated by Adams are sprinkled throughout this...

A square-shaped paper chimney is ignited. When it has burned to a cinder the remaining ash floats mysteriously up to the ceiling before descending back to the performer's outstretched hand. Entirely safe and under the performer's control at all times. An excellent effect to be combined with fortune-telling or mentalism. A thing of subtle beauty.

1st edition 2021; PDF 2 pages, video 15 s.

This is a detailed description of Keith Clark's 'Phoenix plot' routine, where a cigarette gets destroyed but somehow is recreated - as it were it rises like Phoenix from its ashes.

Paul Fleming wrote:

A long stem rose appears in a flash of fire at the performer's fingertips.

Ideal for birthdays, weddings, anniversary wishes, mother's and valentine's day. Some simple construction necessary - nothing complicated. Make your own video greetings with personalized vocal remarks.

1st edition, PDF 1 page, video 44s.

Make two cigarettes from one.

Magically and visually the filter of a cigarette splits into two. Tear the cigarette at the location of the new second filter and you now have two smaller cigarettes each with a filter. Hand one half out to share your cigarette.

1st edition 2019, length 19 min.

Ralf Rudolph takes on the challenge to let a lighted match float. He explains in detail how to make the gimmick, and how to perform the effect. You need to perform this under somewhat dimmed lighting conditions with some distance to your audience. It is best performed off-beat when nobody expects you to perform a magic trick. For example, it has become dark and you want to light a candle. Take a box of matches, light a match, and suddenly the match floats for 2-3 seconds. Then you light the candle with it.

1st edition 2019, length 15 min.

A manual of sorcery with cigarette papers. No matter whether you're a magician, a mentalist, or land somewhere in between, there's something for you in this brilliant ebook. Intimate, indetectable, close-up magic giving the appearing of great skill but requiring a minimum of sleight of hand. Over a dozen illustrations and a score of effects and methods.

Illustrated by Bob Gunther, former Disney animator, the moves are cleanly and clearly depicted, as if the authors were teaching them to you over drinks at their favorite watering hole.

Partial contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Basic...

From the introduction by Lewis Ganson:

Please note that the instructions are purely visual. No spoken words.

Show an empty pack of cigarettes. Close it. And when you open it again it is filled with genuine cigarettes.

1st edition 2018, 7 min 8 s

• Baffling At The Bar
• Remaking A Cigarette
• Fun With Cigarettes
  • Self-Lighting Cigarette
  • Stretching A Cigarette
• Visible Elongation
• The Writing On The Palm
• Three In One
• Levitation
• Vanishing and Appearing Lit Cigarette
• Lighting A Cigarette By Magic
• Tossing A Cigarette
• The Invisible Influence
• Penetrating and Rising Lit Cigarette
  • Working
  • The Penetration
  • The Rising Effect

1st edition 1983, 12 pages; PDF 15 pages.

• Foreword
• Playing With Fire - Part One
  • The Construction Of The Fire-Eaters Torch
  • To Eat Fire
  • A Novel Way To Light The Second Torch
  • Eating Fire From The Hand
  • Burning The Tongue Alive
  • Try Shooting Flames From The Mouth
  • The Giant Blow-Out
  • A True Story
• Playing With Fire - Part Two
  • The Mysterious Gas Jet
  • A Simple Fire Wheel
  • Balancing The Fire Wheel
  • Miscellaneous Fire Effects
  • Multiplying Candles
  • The Famous Clay Pipes Mystery
  • The Fire Bowl
  • Re-Lighting Tapers
  • Lighted Candle From Pocket
  • The Fire Walk
• A Complete Fire Act
  • Notes On Fire Regulations
  • A Final Word
• Please...

A compilation of the very best methods of producing lighted cigarettes. Covers all the various sleights and moves for this production. 36 illustrations. The last chapter takes up the pipe production, which is always a popular finish with cigarette manipulators.

Paul Fleming wrote:

Early 1900's version of the Haunted Match Box. For a finish the box transforms into a small doll dressed in a cloth gown. This does take construction skills and the effect is worth the trouble. See video below. Another video, where Tilley literally lifts the skirt of the girl, is included with the purchase (check your digital shelf).

1st edition 2017, PDF 4 pages, video 40s.

The elusive matchbox.

A favorite of Dai Vernon. A matchbox sleeve vanishes from the performer's hand and returns to his pocket. Requires some construction but not difficult. See video below.

1st edition 2017, 4 pages.

This ebook is crammed with 40 usable routines, tricks, gags and effects using flash paper and flash bills.

This cornucopia of magical wonders uses that amazing pyrotechnic wonder, flash paper, to spruce up your regular magic, mentalism or music routine. This newly revised edition updates and expands the original material providing even more incentive to dig that package of flash paper out of your magic drawer and put it to use.

Learn this attention-getting magic today and be the life of any party or gathering.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Care of Flash Paper
• Cautions and Tips
• Methods...

Incorporating the two previous editions known as Tips on Flash Paper and More Tips on Flash Paper, plus much additional material.

• General Comments Re- Flash Paper
• Opening Effects
• Effects with Cigarettes, Cigars, Flames, Matches and Ashtrays
• Effects with Money
• Effects with Cards
• Effects with Silks
• Effects with Balls
• Effects with Paper
• Effects with Flowers
• Effects with Rope
• Effects with Milk
• Miscellaneous Effects
• Gags, Stunts and Bits of Business

1st edition 1951; 1st digital edition 2016, 52 pages.

From the introduction:

Content

• PART ONE - Match...

This is truly an encyclopedic work including sleight of hand manipulation with cigarettes as well as all gimmicks, all explained with more than 300 photos. Pretty much everything that is to know about this subject is included in this ebook. Produce lit cigarettes endlessly, crush a burning cigarette in your hand and have it vanish and a lot more.

Paul Fleming wrote:

Tricks involving lighted cigarettes, flames and lighted matches, cigars, pipes, ... All the material in this work was originally contributed to TOPS Magazine and has appeared nowhere else. Over fifty effects with cigarettes, cigars, pipes, matches and smoke! Edited by Neil Foster.

• CIGARETTES TO MATCHES PLUS
• CIGARETTE, BALL AND HANK
• CLEAN-CUT CIGARETTE VANISH
• CIGAR TO FLOWERS
• A MAGICIAN TESTS HIS CIGARETTES
• GOOD COMEDY IDEA
• A MATCH SNATCH
• CIGARETTE FROM NOWHERE
• SLOW AND EASY CIGARETTE SLEIGHT
• A CIGARETTE SLEIGHT
• TIPS FOR CIGARETTE MANIPULATION
• USEFUL CIGARETTE SLEIGHTS
  • Number...

Many wonderful fire tricks and the secrets of fire-eating. Add brightness, flash, color, and excitement to your show. The entire fire-eating subject is covered: torches, gas jets, licking a red hot poker, drinking boiling liquid, biting hot iron, eating burning objects, fire bubbles, etc. Also, the Human Blow Torch, other thrilling but different effects such as the Human Volcano, Fire Fountain, Burning a Living Head, Burning Water, the Dragon's Mouth, many others. Spectacular numbers include Colored Fire, Automatic Lamp, Mysterious Candles, Breath of Fire, etc. There are sixty tricks in all,...

Puzzles, games and conjuring tricks - all done with simple matches. Get a matchbox or book of matches and entertain an entire table of guests or just a single person on the bar.

With an introduction by David Devant.

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I: Puzzles
  • Introduction
  • Dividing The Inheritance
  • Boy Scouts' Bridge
  • Doubling The Area
  • Twin Triangle Puzzle
  • Four Triangle Puzzle
  • Nothing To Remain
  • Shakespearean Quotation
  • Match Manufacture
  • Removing The Middle
  • Evens To Odd
  • Tantalising Addition
  • Alternative Method Of Presentation
  • Easy Multiplication
  • Subtle Subtraction
  • Singular Subtraction
  • Twenty-Five...

18 of the best puzzles, gags and brain teasers with matches (toothpicks, straws or golf tees). Included is the famous story of Romeo and Juliet!

Easy magic tricks with matches (toothpicks, golf tees, etc.)

CONTENTS:

• NOTHING-TO-DO MATCHES (George Blake and Ken de Courcy): A match is inserted in each fist of a spectator, one match head down and one match head up. When the spectator opens his hands the two matches are now both the same way up.
• BACK, BACK AND RESTORED (Ken de Courcy): A match is broken into three pieces. Two pieces are dropped into the left hand and the head goes into the pocket. The left hand is opened and all three pieces are there. This is repeated. At the end, the match is restored.
• THE TWO THIEVES (Anonymous): You tell a story of two...

Scream then an eery silence! Show a zippo lighter (any lighter) and a box of matches. Have the spectator take out a match and close their hand around it. "Do you believe in voodoo!?" The spectator opens their hand to discover the match is now half burnt. Relight the half burnt match in their hands.

Ravi's signature effect. A chosen card's corner is ripped off. The magician takes out a lighter and goes to burn the torn corner piece. The magician opens his hand to show that the corner piece has vanished. The spectator is given the lighter to examine only to find that the corner of their selected card is inside the sealed lighter. It is signed and given out as a souvenir.

Everything you need to know: vanishes, appearances, changes, multiplying, producing, explanation of various props to glamorize your cigarette work, etc. Carefully explained with pictures so that even the beginner can easily understand and do these tricks. A great little handbook of cigarette work, with tricks you will use.

1st edition 1957, 20 pages; digital edition 2012, 27 pages.

Table of Contents

1. Cigarette Vanisher (Pull)
7. The Professional Vanish
8. The Squeeze Vanish
9. Thumb Tip Vanish
10. Ireland Simplex Cigarette Production Act
13. Cigarettes-Cigars-Pipe
17. The Invisible Cigarette
19. Cigarette...

You take out a lighter to light up a cigarette or candle. But the lighter doesn't work. You try several times but it simply does not burn. In an instant you change the lighter to a box of matches, take out a match and light your cigarette or candle.

Using this effect Tommy Wonder also teaches the pros and cons of approaching potential spectators with the question: "Do you want to see some magic?" Of course, he offers a much better alternative.

The Torn and Restored Cigarette Paper is a classic sleight-of-hand close-up effect. Skinner's main contribution here is the performance which is humorous and fits his personality. The technique is Nate Leipzig's technique which can also be found in Stars of Magic or Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig.

runtimet 6min 44s

Over 70 puzzles, brain teasers, stunts and magic tricks with matches (or toothpicks or even straws). You will be the talk of the party. Keep your audiences occupied for hours. You need just a box of matches and you can do miracles.

1st edition 2007; 30 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Content
4. Selling Your Services
8. Cigarette Magic Introduction
9. Cigarette Manipulation

   Cigarette Tricks

15. The Disappearing Cigarette
16. The Cigarette Holder
16. Cigarette Catching
18. The Asbestos Handkerchief
19. The Card and Cigarette
20. Lighted Cigarettes From The Mouth

1st edition 1931; 22 pages.

For the first effect you will need a cigar. Take off the cellophane cover and have a spectator twist it into a little string. Then have them pull off the cigar band and put it on the cellophane string. Both ends are held by the spectator. Under the cover of a handkerchief you free the band without destroying it.

The second effect is a neat stunt. While you attempt to light your cigarette with a match the lit match takes off and flies away - like a rocket.

runtime: 8min 39s

"...at last, the originator explains his classic micro-levitation in complete detail — a digital first..."

Invented in 1986, and marketed as Cosmosis by Ben Harris, this effect has become one of the most pirated close-up creations in magic's recent history. It truly has become a "classic." Even today, twenty-three years after its debut, unscrupulous individuals and manufacturers in many countries market it without any due respect for its heritage or compensation for its creator. From street stalls in India and across Asia, to the high streets of London and Paris, you'll find this effect...

Cigarettes are banned from most public places. The opportunities to perform this type of magic are limited. Nevertheless the magic is great. In this ebook you will find routines by Mark Weston, Bengt Nilsson, and Luis Gavilondo.

This was part of the famous Ganson Teach-In series originally published by Supreme Magic Inc. Rights are now owned by Martin Breese whom we thank for the kind permission to reproduce this booklet.

[Get the full collection of all 17 Teach-Ins at a huge discount.

1st edition 1977, original 24 pages, PDF 27 pages.

4. Contents
6. Introduction
7. Foreword
8. The Action
8. Presentation
10. METHOD OF WORKING
14. AQUITMENT ...

In Dennis' own words:

Dennis writes:

Imagine this: You borrow a quarter from a spectator and have it initialed with a Sharpie marker. You take a pack of cigarettes and place the quarter on top of the pack. You have the spectator cover the quarter with a hand and say you’ll cause the coin to pass completely through the pack. You make a magical pass and have the spectator lift her hand. Only...the quarter’s still there. You ask the spectator to pick up the quarter. She tries but her fingers slide right over the coin. Impossibly the coin is under the cellophane! You clearly show the pack is unopened and unmarked in any way. You...

Cards will burn...

Burn explores ideas of the performer physically affecting playing cards in many different ways through the medium of heat/fire/voodoo...for example, the magician causes an image of a spectators chosen card to appear burnt onto another playing card at his will and command...

The ebook is packed with 22 different concepts that will guide you through the methods for creating your own unique tools and gaffs and teach you step-by-step the techniques and mechanics for achieving the impossible voodooesque card magic that has become Burn.

• IN THE SMOKE 1: A card is selected...

A collection of impromptu tricks and stunts involving matches. To save space and to avoid trivial details, the descriptions have been made as brief as possible and all finer points of presentation and patter have been left to the ingenuity of the reader.

The main categories are wooden matches, paper matches, tricks & jokes & catches, and puzzles.

• WOODEN MATCHES
  6. Magnetized Matches
  6. Escapo
  6. Striking En Passant
  7. Match Box Monte
  7. Match And Handkerchief
  7. Another Method
  8. Still Another Method
  8. And Still Another
  8. Electric Match
  9. Invisible Hair
  9. Blowing Through The Sleeves
  9. Vanishing Penny ...

Take out an originally sealed packet of cigarettes, open it and offer a cigarette to a spectator. The spectator can mark this cigarette in any way, perhaps with a small tear or a small dot with a pen. Then the spectator dumps his marked cigarette as well as all the other cigarettes from the packet into a hat or box or some other container and mixes the cigarettes thoroughly. As the hat is held above your eye level you take out one by one 19 cigarettes. None is the marked one, which is left inside the hat. No gimmicks. You end completely clean. A true Annemann miracle.

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A Hilarious cigarette routine for smokers or nonsmokers. No matter what the magician does he can't get the right end of the cigarette in his mouth. Even when he tears the filter off, it magically appears back on the wrong end of the cigarette. Visually stunning and always gets laughs. Watch a demo video below.

Effect
The magician decides to take a cigarette break. Just as he's about to light the cigarette he realizes that the cigarette is in his mouth backwards. So he does the obvious and flips the cigarette end for end and puts it back into his mouth. To his surprise the filter is still...

This is a classic book, probably the best book on close-up magic ever written. Now available as an ebook with an improved layout. The original book had 448 photos grouped together in full-page photo plates. This meant that most photos were removed from the text which goes along with the photos. We have corrected this error in this digital edition. All photos have been inserted in the text where they are referred to.

Slydini was a genius of misdirection. Every movement and every word is deliberately chosen to direct the attention of spectators as well as to produce a graceful and engaging...

Dieses Heft ist von einem der innovativen Köpfe im deutschsprachigen Raum geschrieben. Kaldy-Karo beschreibt einige tolle Effekte mit Feuer. Er weiss um Feuer bescheid, da er selbst ein Feuerwehrhauptmann ist. Kaldy-Karo wurde von der Deutschen Magiervereinigung zum Author des Jahres 1986 erchoren.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

3. Vorwort
4. Kartenblitz
8. Mirakel
10. Verschwindender Handflasher
12. Brennende Fingerspitzen
14. Automatik Fackel
16. Wie der Blitz
18. Mann, ist das Irre
23. Feuerwerk aus der Hand
25. Feuerwerk zu Spazierstock
28. Wall Street oder Der 150 Schilling Trick
31. Wie Baue Ich Meine Kaschees Selbst

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