Magazines & Journals in Magic & Conjuring: page 10

Volume 2, No. 2: February 2023, 48 pgs.

The 14th issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

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  • Slow Jazz Aces / Curtis Kam: A take on Jazz Fusion by Louis Falanga with a streamlined ending.
  • EZ Jazzembly / Patrik Kuffs: A Jazz Aces routine that is quick and to the point, and easy to do. It's four-king good.
  • Jazz / Jozsef Kovacs: Another Jazz Aces routine, this one with a kicker ending.
  • COINtortionist / Scott Baird: A one-handed, four-coin production based on the coin roll. This'll take some practice.
  • Wavelength / Kyle Leon: A unique Brainwave effect with a magician versus gambler premise.
  • Order in the Cortex /...

Volume 2, No. 3: March 2023, 48 pgs.

The 15th issue of The Hermit Magazine is a TAKEOVER issue by Bigblindmedia, and features magic and articles from their roster of impressive magical minds, including:

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  • Cardnection / Cameron Francis: Both spectators select the same card. An excellent coincidence effect that uses a Simon Aronson move to great effect!
  • Blind Pebble Ace Fling / John Bannon: The legendary John Bannon contributes his take on Richard Sanders' Ace Thing, with a couple of clever moments of surprise.
  • KaDribble Change / Biz: A colour change done in the open, in the action of a dribble.
  • Magician's...

The latest issue of The Hermit Magazine is a unique blend of magic and creativity from a broad range of contributors.

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• CKR / Boyet Vargas: A simple and easy to do mental effect where a thought-of object is divined. Can be performed over the phone or on Zoom, as well as in person! A variation by Scott is provided as well.
• Ten-Star Prediction / Kyle Leon: Cleverness abounds once more as Kyle teaches a version of the Koran Miracle Prediction that allows you to display the prediction before the cards even come out of the box.
• Kings & Aces / Scott Baird: This is my variation of Jerry Sadowitz's routine from Cards On The Table. Aces...

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• Surprise Overture / Chiam Yu Sheng: Phil Goldstein's Overture is given a four-of-a-kind kicker ending.
• Tap Triple Wild Coin / Scott Baird: David Roth's Stand-up Wild Coin is combined with some bits of business with a pen, and at the end, the coins all change into a third denomination.
• Impromptu Speller / Kyle Leon: Kyle's handling of an impromptu spelling location. Kyle has added some nice touches to a simple spelling location, making the method harder to backtrack.
• Spelling to the Aces / Corey Harris: As the title says.
• Handy Speller / Andy Choy: A wonderful mnemonic method for determining...

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• Ryan Schlutz (author of False Anchors and Unanchored), presents RNG, his updated take on Card at Any Sum.
• A returning contributor to the magazine, Bill Citino shares his routine Making a Difference, a new variation of a Scott Robinson routine.
• A Nightmare in Red and Blue by Scott Baird, which is an improved handling of an old Don Nielson and Karl Fulves trick from Pallbearer's Review. I also teach my Flash Ribbon effect later in the issue.
• June is also Tomás Giammarco's first appearance in The Hermit, and he shares his routine Strange Concordance 23332, of which I am a huge fan! It's based...

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The issue starts out with Joke Matrix by Scott Baird, a one-card and four-coin assembly effect based on the work of Shoot Ogawa.

Then, learn Michael Rubinstein's Purse Transpo Surprise, which is a copper/silver transposition routine using a purse with a big finish.

Kyle Leon then shares his take on a Bob Cassidy classic, called Name & Place. Learn Millard Longman's Acidus Novus peek and Jay Sankey's Paperclipped Switch in this routine as well.

Centrifugal Triumph by Jozsef Kovacs is a two-selection Triumph routine using the Centrifugal Lift by Kevin Fox.

Patrik Kuffs shares a short and sweet card reversal...

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The issue starts out with Darned Pain in the Neck by Paul Gordon, a fun ace-spelling routine that goes wrong all the way until it goes right.

Then, learn Scott Baird's Fabulous Jumping Jokers, which is a different sort of take on a Ken Krenzel mystery card routine from The Collected Almanac.

Kyle Leon shares Predetermined Roll, a predicted card routine that is so fair it uses imaginary dice.

The Unknown Future by John Carey is a direct and to-the-point mystery card routine, originally published in his book Me, My Cards, and I.

Jason Connolly shares an ace-cutting routine with a triumph phase...

• Box Bits by Joe Cole
• One Four All by Michael Kras
• Worker's Cheek to Cheek by Kyle Leon
• Flurry by Michael Rubinstein
• Joker Transpo by Patrik Kuffs
• The Final Destination by Boyet Vargas
• Cubicle Coincidence by Joe Rindfleisch
• Challenge Accepted by Chiam Yu Sheng
• Six Card Cheat by Scott Baird
• Dale's Last Card Trick by Dale Moore
• Slam Change by Biz
• Sankey Says by Jay Sankey

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• Carbon Paper by Tomas Giammarco
• Echo Stack by Bertie Mac
• Aces Up, Collectors by Scott Baird
• Double Agent Collectors by Scott Baird
• Eerie Collectors by Scott Baird
• Twisting the Aces Shocker by Paul Gordon
• Coin Box Moves by Joe Cole
• The Alpha and The Omega by Millard Longman
• Sloppy Oil and Water by Kyle Leon (and Ryan Pilling)
• #hermitmagicchallenge
• United Switch by Biz

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• Slop Shuffle Triumph - Kyle Leon
• Anti-Triumph - Scott Baird
• Peeked Key Triumph Control - Scott Baird
• FUJ-ed Triumph - Scott Baird
• Triumph's World - Chiam Yu Sheng
• A.K.A. Triumph - John Carey
• Trium-Fanned - Brandon Sheffield
• Corsican Monte - Andy Choy
• Sankey Says - Jay Sankey
• A Dedication to Michael Vincent - James Mollenkamp
• Kufflydini - Patrik Kuffs
• 4Fly - Jim Turnpaugh
• Double Undercut Reversal - Biz
• #hermitmagicchallenge

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• Beamrules - Scott Baird
• The Point of It All - Part 2 - Scott Baird
• One Point Five Hummer - Scott Baird
• CAAN You Believe It? - John Carey
• CAAN Lite! - John Carey
• Hat Trick - Werner Miller
• Out of The Box - Boyet Vargas
• Opposites - Michał Kociołek
• Examining Biddle - Brandon Sheffield
• All Star Prediction - Kyle Leon
• The Great Pepperoni Trick - Patrik Kuffs
• Wallet Load - Biz
• #hermitmagicchallenge

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• Patrik Kuffs presents some Billiard Mastery in Two Acts
• Boyet Vargas shares his mentalism routine, Person of Interest
• Landon Stark explains a tea time trick with Mentalitea
• Werner Miller returns with the Three of Diamonds Trick
• Joe Rindfleisch shares his Computerized Deck 2.0
• Andy Choy and Yathunandh teach their Corsican Closer
• CJ snaps your portrait in Copper Silver Camera
• Claudio Imperiale gets Two Birds [with] One Stone
• Adam Socha has a Threesome In The Box
• John Carey goes Topsy Turvy Carey

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• Millard Longman shares Bitcoins from Cyberspace
• Patrik Kuffs teaches his routine, 2Kuda
• Adam Socha shares a method for Cards At Any Number
• Kyle Leon teaches his Clean Cut Aces
• Paul Hallas has a Three-Person Quickie
• Steven Palmer takes A Subtle Breather
• Dale Moore says, What the Actual Freak
• Landon Stark shows how to make a Face Change Gimmick
• Biz teaches the Metro Control
• Plus, Scott Baird shares some low-tech ideas for building a Lottery Simulator and other Mad Libs-based predictions over Zoom!

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Seance Magazine - a quarterly magazine devoted to spirit magic - was published from fall 1988 until summer of 1991, a total of 12 issues. This is a facsimile reproduction including every published page and every tipped in sheet of advertisement.

This magazine is considered one of the best publications on theatrical seances with contributions by legends such as Eugene Burger, Tony Andruzzi, Phil Goldstein (Max Maven), T.A. Waters, Punx, Bob Baker, Lee Earle, Jim Magus, and others, and of course Scott Davis himself. It is a great source for performances during Halloween and other spooky or bizarre performances. ...

Katterfelto magazine will be quarterly and available as a hard copy full color magazine or an e-book. (Here at the Lybrary only the e-book version is available.) The hard copy version will be sent out with a free gift.

Anyone purchasing the e-book version will be able to purchase the free gifts at a significantly reduced rate. All you have to do is email Simon at [email protected] to claim your discount.

For the first edition the free gift is the Pocket Book Test. If you purchase this ebook you can get the Pocket Book Test for £6.00 (+s&h). For a description see further down...

The first issue is a potpourri of topics and contributors.

• The Care of White Doves - caring for and using of doves by David J O’Conner from Down Under
• Past Glory of India - a short write-up and pictures of Gogia Pasha (known to some as the "Gilly Gilly" magician from India)
• A Short History of the I.B.M. by Past International President of I.B.M. Jack White
• Your Best Test Audience - finding your best and toughest "practice" audience by Grandpa Chet
• a clever magic-themed Crossword Puzzle by Balasubramian Chandran aka Balu The Magician
• Control Coins – an excellent coin prediction by...

This second issue is a miscellany of magical mélange contributed by who well understand their art...

• Mentalism vs Magic vs Mental Magic – is a well-thought comparative discourse between magic of the mind and magic of the hands by Grandpa Chet Cox.
• Past Glory of India - a short picturesque write-up with pictures of Kuda Bux (known to some as the “The Man with the X-Ray Eyes” - a magician from India)
• Etiquette for Magicians – the title itself is self-evident. This is most pragmatic advice to the performing magicians by Sam Dalal, the maven magician of India.
• Another clever magic-themed Crossword...

The 3rd issue of TGM is chock-full of instructive as well as informative articles and photographs. This colorful little e-zine fetches 'something for all' from Spain, England, America and of course India.

• Loch David Crane M. ED starts sharing from his book Captain Kirk and Star Tricks part by part fron this issue.
• Presentation and Showmanship - Maintaining an Objective View by Tony Brook is something one should not miss to go through.
• Tip - Tops by Ian Adair covers a significant aspect.
• Past Glory of India - a picturesque write-up on Asok Roy who has helped many a magic neophytes as...

This 4th issue of volume 1 of The Gimmick MagiZette is another miscellanea of magical gallimaufry contributed by eminent artists of the art of magic...

• Captain Kirk and Star Tricks by Loch David Crane, M. Ed. show some excerpts of his book
• Down the lane to MENTALISM by Gora Datta of Kolkata, India is exactly the same as the name suggests.
• Past Glory of India - DP Das is a picturesque write-up on DP Das (known to some as the "Indian King of Koins")
• Crossword Puzzle - Another clever magic-themed Crossword Puzzle by Balasubramian Chandran aka Balu The Magician
• Making Your Own Indetectable...

This 5th issue of volume 1 of The Gimmick MagiZette is another magical salmagundi contributed by reputed magic personalities from east and west …

• Sorcar Senior aka TW'SGM has just trod on to his 100th Birthday – our homage and a nice photograph.
• "Captain Kirk and Star Tricks" by Loch David Crane, M. Ed. Loch gives his explanation on Torn and Restored Strings from his book.
• "Robert Olson on Ventriloquy" – Rev. Robert E Olson recites his Chipper (vent doll) and expresses the cardinal rules of ventriloquism in a nutshell.
• "Past Glory of India – Prof. Vazhakunnam," fondly referred...

This sixth and last issue of Volume 1 of The Gimmick MagiZette is yet another smorgasbord of magical omnium-gatherum contributed by eminent artistes of the Art of Magic from US, UK and from India...

• A few words from Solyl are musings from the editor that one should read.
• Past Glory of India - covers picturesque life of The Great Devkumar in this issue.
• Crossword Puzzle – an alphanumeric magic puzzle is this time that will make you crazy. In addition, solution to last issue's puzzle.
• MagiXposed – this section explains five effects covering all sorts from close-up to conjuring… ...

This 1st issue of volume 2 of The Gimmick MagiZette is yet another magical omnium-gatherum contributed by eminent artists of the art of magic...

• "Let's have a chat" is a place where Solyl acts as a chatterbox.
• In "Captain Kirk and Star Tricks" by Loch David Crane, David shows The Self tying Necktie Based on a rope move from Rice's Encyclopedia of Silk Magic.
• The Magician and His Onlookers by Gora Datta of Kolkata, India is his musings.
• Past Glory of India - Mino the Mystic is a picturesque write-up Mino Nowroji Cooper - a magician with a deviation.
• CHETORIC is a review column by a...

The second issue of Volume 2 of The Gimmick MagiZette is ready for your viewing and more. This issue of magical ragbag is full of contributions from eminent artistes of the Art of Magic both from eastern and western magic world...

• The first page is our Tribute to India's Master magician K. Lal.
• "Let's have A Chat" is Solyl's ramblings (?!) for those who have time to waste.
• In this issue Loch David Crane has explained his version of "Twin Ropes through Neck Escape" complete with patter and more.
• "The Indian Rope Trick" of ancient India is an interesting article by Dr. P.K. Chatterjee. ...

This 3rd issue of volume 2 of The Gimmick MagiZette e-zine published from the Land of Magic - India is yet another magical mélange boasting contributions from the eminent artistes of the art. Just see the contents below:

• The Universal Zero card Stab - by Loch David Crane is from his book Captain Kirk and Star Tricks may inspire you to buy the book.
• An Act for Every Season - is an article that gives ideas to use same effects for different occasion--clever indeed!
• Puppetry - here Ernie Jones teaches how a nice puppet is made out of a bottle for use. One will be tempted to try it. ...