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A straw floats from a cup or can into your hand.

The method goes back to Joseph Dunninger. Ralf explains the gimmick, setup and performance in detail in his video.

1st edition 2019, length 15min

The eighth and final volume in Jimmy Muir's Laugh Lines series is packed to the gills with even more side-splitting jokes, gags, comic observations, heckler stoppers, one-liners and opening monologue ideas for magicians, emcees, comics, salespeople and others who need to inject humor into their presentations.

Jimmy Muir was acknowledged by many of magic's greats as the funniest guy on the planet. Whether it was performing at a huge national convention or emceeing the floor show at his San Francisco hotel, Jimmy's material was always top notch.

The original Laugh Lines booklets are sadly...

Here's a stage illusion that fits in a suitcase. A miracle that your audience will talk about long after the curtain drops. Two children volunteers are selected and come up to the stage. A boy is dressed in a farmer's costume with mask and a girl is dressed in a witch's costume with mask and broom. The performer tells a story of how an old witch called at the farmer's door for food and water and how the farmer turned her away. But the old witch had magical powers and changed places with the farmer, to teach him a lesson.

The magician asks the farmer to remove his mask and in place of the...

"It is a great, great read, especially your recounting of how Mr. Lawstone substituted workshop sheets for the actual apparatus." - Christopher Kenworthey

Inside his catalog he included three free tricks that you could try on your friends. These were decent tricks and were some of the first tricks I ever did. They have been re-written and included in this release. His...

The brand new sound and beat from Modern Music for Magicians has been created using the latest technology and takes your projects to the next level. The medium to fast-paced Traxx sound innovative, modern, futuristic and create a cool and modern atmosphere. In addition, there are 10 bonus FX from the cinematic area. With these effects you can create transitions between the songs or set targeted auditory accents in your magic shows, ...

The following music genres are represented: Trance, Dubstep, Drum & Bass, Ambient and Pop

Perfectly suited for: magic shows, video clips, product ads,...

Vol. 15, No. 4, September 2019; 60 pages Cover: Mandy Muden

5. A Word From The Editor
5. Contents
6. The Mailbox - Your View - Have Your Say
8. Mandy Muden - Natural Born Thriller! - cover article/interview by Graham Hey
14. Friend Not Foe - Using The Humorous Spectator - Mark Leveridge
18. Masterclass
    18. Safe Deposit - David Regal
    20. Easy Peasy Prediction - Adam Hudson
20. cartoon - Sergey Diomin
22. Shout Outs - Here are some special 'extra' announcements from a few of our regular advertisers
24. Allan De-Val - Unshackled - interview
28. Against The Rules - A Comic Look at Magic Clubs - Mark Leveridge
30. David Williamson...

Einer der besten Interpreten der deutschen Zauberkunst hat hier ein Fachbuch geschaffen, das zu den herausragenden Werken der deutschsprachigen magischen Nachkriegsliteratur zu zählen ist. Aus allen Hauptgebieten der Magie sind außergewöhnliche Tricks zusammengestellt und zu diesem Buch vereinigt worden. Alles ist hundertfältig ausprobiert, was hier geboten wird, es ist arteigen und stilvoll. Dieses Fachwerk stellt eine Kostbarkeit dar und dürfte wohl die Perle jeder Fachbücherei sein.

• MIKRO-MAGIE
  • Farbentippen
  • Die Badefee
  • Masse und Energie
• BÜHNEN- UND SALONMAGIE
  • Die Unzerstörbarkeit...

Contains all the early Marlo material for your convenience. Formerly put out in a dozen or more pamphlets - now with improved art work in digital form for easy study.

• Early Eddie
• Learning To Fool The People
• Pasteboard Presto
  • Two Pets
  • A. First Pet
  • B. Second Pet
  • Marlo's Rosini
  • The First Miracle
  • Another Rosini
  • Everywhere And Nowhere
  • Four Aces Again
  • The Ambitious Card
  • General Ace Trick
• Amazing, Isn't It?
  • Foreword
  • Card Counted To
  • Marlo's Think A Card
  • Simplex Ten To One
  • No Palm Aces To Pocket
  • Do As I Do - U Can't Unless I Want U 2
  • Streamlined Discernment
  • Surprising Transposition ...

Major corporations, large festivals and fairs offer large paying contracts. In these environments a magician needs more than just a business card and brochure. The best approach is to provide them with a promotional presentation. Some refer to it as a promo pack and others just call it a press kit. Regardless the term those who get hired often gain their consideration based on the promotional information they provide.

One does not have to go out and invest a lot of money to build a professional presentation pack. You can purchase high quality folders from the local office supply store. Using...

You will learn the secrets and get detailed video instructions of how to make four impressive 'impossible' objects.

• Spider Link
• Checker Board
• The Needle
• Fork on Card

The Fork on Card will impress...

Learn how to fold three beautiful cards. Included are templates and detailed video instructions. Particularly the Twist Flap is interesting, because it has a 'reveal'. You show the card which does not immediately look particularly impressive or impossible. You then lift a flap to expose a much more difficult situation that will impress everybody.

• Twist Link
• Twist Flap
• Triangle Twist

25 tricks, tips and routines designed for the Nielsen, Weller, or other rubber vanishing/appearing bottle.

If you own a rubber beer, cola or ketchup bottle, this is the book for you. From the 1940s to now, there have been thousands upon thousands of rubber beer, soda and ketchup bottles sold. While it is effective just to wad up the (supposedly) glass bottle in a paper bag and toss it offstage, you can do so much more with it. And that's the purpose of this informative ebook.

You would indeed be fortunate to somehow locate and afford a copy of the hard to find, out of print first edition...

Looking for something a little bit different in magic? Here are 14 card and general magic ideas with the accent on novelty and practicability. Wilbur Kattner, the mastermind behind such ingenious effects as The Shattering Flask and The Prolix Spirit Writes, has filled the pages of this ebook with conjuring that deserves a place in your program.

Contains Orville Meyer's Restless Colors, and the torn corner effect, CLIMAX!, which won the Caryl Fleming Gold Medal Award for the author. Also included is a complete explanation of how to make Daub ala Meyer, a marketed product for card magicians, which has since...

Charles Morritt was able to hold the entire theatre audience spellbound with what was, in essence, a pocket trick. After inviting two members of the audience onstage he would allow them to figuratively change places, thus transcending and descending their social classes using only two purses and four coins. Two copper coins, held by the "workingman", and two gold coins, held by the "uppercrust", change places while being held in purses by each witness. This updated version replaces much of the skill required by substituting gimmicks that can easily be made at home, while retaining the powerful...

The original ad:

Here is an entirely new idea in mentalism. Several spectators think of various objects. The performer psycho analyses them and divines the objects being thought of.

• Positively No Force
• Any Object Thought Of
• No Chance Of Failure
• Performer Is Right Every Time
• No Skill Required - Just The Ability To Talk
• Complete With Introductory Lecture and Full Routine That Will Hold The Audience Spellbound

George Armstrong's introduction:

C’est avec une grande fierté que The Mystery Store vous propose pour la première fois en français l’une des toutes premières, si ce n’est LA première, routine de mentalisme psychologique. Créée par Chandu, rédigée par George Armstrong, publiée en 1950, et… à portée de mains (ou de clics…) !

Elle a traversée les années jusqu’à vous, ne nécessitera qu’une très légère mise à jour (notamment en ce qui concerne le script d’introduction de la routine), est facile à faire et donnera l’impression à vos spectateurs que vous analysez réellement leurs réponses...

• Die Asse hinter Stacheldraht
• Mysterium in der Tasche
• Der anspruchsvolle Zuschauer
• Gedanke, Willkür und Geburtstag
• Der errechnete Gedanke
• Das neue Mischen
• Mein Pünktchentest
• Wenn ich mich konzentriere ...
• Karte und Notiz
• Zahlen - Zahlen - Zahlen
• Blind-Tasten
• "Mirakel"
• Ein Doppel - Effekt
• Die beinahe mißlungene Vorhersage
• Ein Prinzip - drei Effekte
• Fernwirkung

Skriptum Erlesener Magie Band II

Erstausgabe 1959, 33 Seiten; PDF 29 Seiten.

• Meet / Greet
• Boo!
• Coupon Marketing
• Get a Website They Said
• Hot Off the Press
• Plus Sales
• Lock it up / Keep track of it
• Working with Other Magicians

1st edition 2019, 10 pages.

Imagine the performer going to a corner in any room, turning his back so he can’t see what is going on and having someone just point to a card from a deck spread face up on a table. With no verbal communication from his assistant, the performer then reveals the card.

He does this without seeing the deck and without the aid of secret electronics. The performer can be closely watched and nothing will be found to be amiss. This is a real fooler done under test conditions and will fool many magicians.

Full Effect: The mentalist or medium goes to a corner of the room and turns his back. He...

Packed with field tested material - this ebook will offer you 5 effects and moves that'll be sure to give your magician friends a blow in their gut. This contains an out of the box poker demonstration, a creative variation of the "Triumph effect", an extremely useful utility switch, an "at the table" four-of-a-kind production and a subtle table false cut.

1. The last challenge: The magician takes a fully shuffled deck and deals five hands of poker - and after each deal he offers the audience a choice of exchanging his hand with theirs. In spite of this seemingly fair process the magician ends...

Not a trick in the ebook, but contains more real information on how to entertain with magic than you can get by reading a hundred others. Gives details so frequently neglected. Invaluable to any magician, for not only must one know how to do tricks, but he must also understand how to make his tricks entertaining.

• Preface
• Hermann Pallme
• Foreword
• CHAPTER I. History Of Magic
• CHAPTER II. The Literature Of Magic
• CHAPTER III. Educational Value Of Magic
• CHAPTER IV. Magic As A Profession
• CHAPTER V. The Study And Practice Of Magic
• CHAPTER VI. Concerning Deportment
• CHAPTER VII. The Dramatic...

Showing that your deck is mixed and ordinary, you also show a card with a prediction written on the back. The spectator chooses a card completely at random, by rolling 1, 2 or 3 dice. You deal to their number (no force). When you reveal the prediction you have not only predicted their chosen card, but also what number they rolled on the dice.

You will need a blue and a red deck (or any two decks with matching faces but different backs) to make this yourself. No arts and craft, just a sharpie and a bit of writing. The dice are optional. You can use real dice, you can use a dice app on your...

One of the cleanest procedures imaginable at the service of a very fair impromptu prediction effect.

A spectator picks four cards from a shuffled deck and rearranges their order. (Free choices.) The magician correctly predicts if one of them matches his favorite card - on the table from the start - and its position in the packet.

Impromptu. Easy to do. Instant reset.

1st edition 2019, 4 pages.

A beautifully illustrated ebook on tables and side stands for you to build. Gene Gloye uses the tag line, "without drapes", because all the tables described are used in many ways, but without cloth drapes.

The ebook begins with several pages of discussion on stage furniture and its possibilities, with illustrated advice on transporting it, plus storing it. The various multi-panel and single panel tables described in detail, with easy to follow building plans, often have diabolically clever "black art wells" and other secret devices. A "Night Club Table" is so simple and so useful, and so...