Mentalism & Spiritism in Magic & Conjuring: page 72

From the introduction:

1st edition 1938; 16 pages.

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• PART ONE. What is "INTUITIONAL SIGHT?"
  • "THE BLINDFOLD" and ITS ACCESSORIES
  • "The Construction of the Blindfold"
  • The Cotton and...

A Multi-Phase Routine of Sensing with Your Fingertips With Multiple Typos and No Photographs!

Please Note: This routine utilizes dual reality and pre-show. If you don’t like those tools, then this manuscript is probably not for you. If you do enjoy these types of techniques, then you will enjoy this ebook.

What People are Saying:

"Cute!"—Craig Browning

"Dale Hildebrandt's Skin Type is one of "those" routines. By that, I mean it's the one and only routine you need to perform when you find the right moment to do so. This routine represents a sentient crescendo made up of several methods that...

Effect:

A spectator is asked to think of an animal of virtually any kind. After concentrating on both its name and its image, the thought-of animal can be immediately revealed.

• easy to do
• no set-up
• no difficult moves

What you get with the PDF only version

You receive an instructional PDF that explains the secret, performance, tips and the history of the concept. You will also receive the design files in SVG (vector graphic format) and PDF to print out the necessary cards yourself. Please note that you will not receive any cards in the mail. You will have to print and cut the...

A method in mentalism so bold you will never believe it works – unless you have the balls!

So what is Balls?

Basically it is a no-budget version of the famous Master Prediction System, that everybody loves but only the pros are able to afford:

A sealed cardboard box is seen standing in full view or hanging from a stand – it can also be given to an audience member at the beginning of the show. Random people call out random things: dates, the amount of money in their pocket, holiday destinations – whatever you (or they) like.

The box is retrieved and opened by a spectator. Inside...

This is Victor Farelli's answer to: "Can you tell fortunes?"

As magician you will occasionally encounter this question. Farelli describes and teaches a strong effect that can be done with a borrowed deck of cards. At the end Farelli includes some practical advice on fortune telling.

Briefly, the effect is as follows. Having been requested by a lady in the company to tell her her fortune, the magician asks her to give him the date and the month (not the year - never ask the age of a woman!) of her birth. Pretending to make some intricate calculations, he informs the sitter that her "lucky"...

The original Magic With An ESP Deck was written in 1972 as an “instruction manual” to go with an ESP Deck marketed as a magic prop. The mimeographed manuscript contained a hand full of good self working effects with an ESP Deck, written and produced over a couple of days. Sam Dalal thought no more of this than the hundreds of similar manuscripts and instruction sheets he has written over the years for commercial magic items.

He was delighted when he found the book had achieved the status of a reference book on the subject. Republished by Micky Hades, references to this manuscript popped...

Aaro has created a unique peek wallet that you can make yourself starting from a pretty standard leather wallet. Aaro's solution is new and in particular different to well known wallets including the Outlaw-effects Magnum 3M Filter Peek Wallet, Cornelius Thought Transmitter and Stealth Assassin Wallet.

The ebook describes in words and photos how to gimmick your wallet. It also explains handling and in particular how to peek. It does not include any routines. We assume you know what to do with this kind of gimmick. The basic effect that is possible with it is as follows:

Any information...

One of the best forcing decks in the world, designed to fool both lay people and magicians alike.

Make impossible card predictions with Devin Knight's Excalibur Deck. Mail a VIP a registered letter and never touch it again. Have him bring it to the show. Show the deck of cards to be different and hand them to any spectator (no stooge). Have him deal the cards face down on the table, while holding the deck in his hands. He stops anywhere during the deal and sets the card aside. Magician tells him to check the cards before and after in the deck. This allows the participant to see if he had...

One of Devin Knight's most guarded secrets from his professional act is now being made available.

A truly long distance, hands-off mental card effect that seems totally impossible. An effect that not only baffles lay people but many magicians as well.

Performer invites anyone to help. He says he will try to subliminally force that person to choose a certain card. Magician proceeds to deal 10 cards face up on a table. He points out that most of these cards could be psychological choices. For example, one card may be the only club on the table. Another card may be the only odd value, another...

In this manuscript, you will find the first volume of Eight Exercises. Plus you will also find the beginnings of The Compleat Fingertips Extended. Open this ebook and let the strangeness commence.

Here is what people are saying about Eight Exercises Plus:

"Faaaaaaaaaaaar too cheap, and an absolute tonic for any free-thinking psychic entertainer...I shall be exercising my mind via your writing yet again..." - Iain Dunford

"Dale has put together many thought provoking ideas that deal with readings and hypnosis. I'm sure many will get a lot of useful ideas and presentations from this...

This is a weird book that mixes black magic, superstitions, charms, divination, signs, omens, hypnosis ... and conjuring. You can find next to each other things like "how to make persons at a distance think of you" and "how to perform the Davenport Brothers' Spirit Mysteries". Probably it is most useful for finding interesting story lines.

1st digital edition 2012, 63 pages.

The origin of the center tear is unclear. Some say it was used by mediums for a long time before magicians found out about it. Theodore Annemann was the one who made it popular among mentalists. Others believe that Martin Sunshine invented it, who passed it on to Theodore H. Arnold who shared it with Annemann. Either way, the principle is one of the most powerful at the disposal of mentalists.

This ebook describes in detail the various phases from the steal, to reading the center as well as other applications and tips.

PDF 11 pages.

Issue 1 of this short-lived publication featuring magical bizarre effects, reviews and an original short story of fiction.

Contents:

• Beneath The Toadstool (introduction of issue)
• Pine Needles and Dirt (Tips, Reviews & Observations)

• Re-Leaf by Larry White: A dead leaf is re-attached to a plant & comes back to life.
• The Writing on the Wall by Kotah (Ron Dayton): An array of effects culminating into the revelation of a priest's horrible secret.
• Aging Your Props by Brother Shadow: How to turn a plain white paper into a priceless antique.
• Witchology 101 by Mark Piazza (also in ShudderShadow Mansion): A prediction effect...

Issue 2 of this short-lived publication featuring magical bizarre effects, reviews and an original short story of fiction.

Contents:

• Beneath The Toadstool (introduction of issue)
• Pine Needles and Dirt (Tips, Reviews & Observations)

• Restored by Ed Solomon: A torn and restored effect (in comic book form) that tugs at the heartstrings.
• The Echo of Dead Voices by Kotah (Ron Dayton): What happens when magic becomes magick via a sea shell.
• Simon and The Ozone by Mark Piazza (also in ShudderShadow Mansion): How the molecules of physical objects turn ghost-like.
• Squeal of Fortune by Shane: A game show routine with...

Issue 3 of this short-lived publication featuring magical bizarre effects, reviews and an original short story of fiction.

Contents:

• Beneath The Toadstool (introduction of issue)
• Pine Needles and Dirt (Tips, Reviews & Observations)

• Dead Man Walking by EvilDan (Dan Terelmes): A questionable prison warden offers freedom to his inmates (includes additional props).
• Stainless Steel, So Cold and Strange by Kotah (Ron Dayton): An effect about re-animation based on a true story . . . by a mortician.
• Having Writ by Shane: Cross-dimensional stalking by the “Shadowpeople”.
• The Ghost of ye Mage...

Issue 4 of this short-lived publication featuring magical bizarre effects, reviews and an original short story of fiction.

Contents:

• Beneath The Toadstool (introduction of issue)
• Pine Needles and Dirt (Tips, Reviews & Observations)

• K-9 Nibbles by Kotah (Ron Dayton): "Scooby Snacks", the Cartoon Network and some magic.
• When You've Gotta Go by Kotah (Ron Dayton): As time ticks away, you may discover that you are the next to go.
• Jumped Rope by DeNomolos (Ed Solomon): A.K.A. The Viagra Rope Trick.
• Stooges! Unite! by Mark Piazza (also in [;p=319 ShudderShadow Mansion]): Will you be paging Moe, Larry and Curly? Sointenly! ...

Anyone, armed with the basic knowledge provided in this ebook, can perform exactly the same stunts that TV psychics perform on television. All you need is 90% nerve and 10% knowledge.

• The Show
• How Does This All Work?
• Secrets Of The TV Demonstration
• The Audience As Spoon Benders
• Should We Care?

1st edition 1986, 1st digital edition 2013, 11 pages.

Only 4 mental effects are explained by Grant in this old manuscript but they are really strong ones.

Read carefully the effects:

1. Watch Reading Test: Any three people take ordinary watches to a far corner and set them at any hour, minute and second desired, then seal them in small boxes. These are hung or placed anyplace and you can tell the exact hour, minute and second on each one.
2. Card & Boards Test: Any number of sealed decks that have never been opened are given to committee. They select any deck, break seals and shuffle same and remove any ten cards and seal them nailing between...

An unusual presentation detailing probably the easiest system for the two-person mind-reading act yet produced.

EFFECT:

A clip-board is tossed into the audience. Under its elastic band is a pencil. The performer asks the person who catches it to pass the board to anyone in the row behind him. That person then writes anything he likes in the top space - a name, a date, a phone number, a question - anything. He then passes the board to someone behind him, who does the same thing, then the board is passed again.

When six people have written their thoughts, the board is returned to the...

This is a curious old magic book explaining the spirit cabinet, dancing handkerchief, a method to levitate a human, a method to let a table float. The bulk of the book focuses on second sight acts - how questions from the audience can be answered. Several methods are being outlined. At the very end a few parlor tricks are described.

1st edition 1905, 1st digital edition 2013, 27 pages.

Table of Contents

5. Preface
6. CHAPTER I: Cabinet Tricks
9. CHAPTER II: Table Lifting
9. - The Obedient Handkerchief
11. CHAPTER III: The Floating Girl
14. CHAPTER IV: Second Sight And Kindred Phenomena
26. Closing Remarks ...

Here is a mental effect that is useful for after-dinner shows.

EFFECT:

On the performer's table stand five bottled drinks. All contain different drinks, but they are all the same size. A spectator is invited to mentally choose one, then they are covered by him with five identical covers and, finally, mixed so no one can know the position of any particular drink. At this point, the performer turns his back and directs the spectator to move the bottles himself. Then one by one they are eliminated until only one remains.

He is asked to name the drink he chose, then lift the cover from...

A really strong piece of mentalism that is impromptu and can be performed literally in every single performing situation is not too easy to find. This, however, fits the bill beautifully.

Effect: The mentalist places a business card onto the table. The audience is told that there is a prediction underneath the business card, but that it will not be shown to them until later. The performer reaches into his pocket (or wherever) and brings out three invisible coins: a nickel, a quarter, and a dime. The spectator is told to imagine that she sees them. The performer lays the imaginary coins in...

Please note that this download product does not include Tingsha bells.

The Tibetan term 'ting' refers to the ringing sound of metal, to the cadence of a musical note. 'Sha' means hanging or suspended. When the two pieces strike each other they produce this clear, pure, cleansing sound, which can be used to focus the mind before and after meditation.

Tingsha Bells create a meditative vibration, calling one into the here and now. The striking sound clears any disturbing energies bringing clarity to any space. They can call us to awareness, to mindfully remember who we are, and to recognize...

This is a system to easily remember one or two cards, say two key cards, and not forget them during the performance of your routine. It is not an associative memory system.

Some card routines, particularly the recently published ones in Sunken Treasury by Nick Conticello require one to remember two key cards. In the heat of performing such an effect these can be forgotten, rendering the trick a failure. This system allows you to easily keep track of one or two or more cards that you want to remember.

There is very little to learn for this system. Reading this manuscript should be enough to put this system to work....