Magic & Mentalism

Designed especially as a warning to the youthful and inexperienced against the evils of that odious and destructive vice.

For magicians and gamblers, the various explanations of cheating are most interesting.

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1st edition 1984, PDF 96 pages.

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1st edition 1977, PDF 87 pages.

"The hottest Matrix effect." - Nicholas Lawrence

"Patricio Teran brings an extra visual punch to one of my favorite plots in magic." - Alain Simonov

"Matrix was already a good routine, imagine adding fire to it ... amazing." - Felix Bodden

After years of studying matrix routines, and building on Vanni Bossi's effect, Patricio decided to fully evolve the fire matrix routine plot with his own handling and applications. You will learn new movements and explosive routines, and even examples of fire matrix routines that can be done without extra chips.

The Matrix effect evolved....

A collection of four close-up and parlour mentalism routines. Each one takes a genuinely old principle (the centre tear, one ahead, a classic number force and the calendar square) and gives it a new premise, a complete script, handling notes, outs and variations.

The material targets three strong categories: billets, book tests and Q&A, and everything uses everyday or borrowed props.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• About Diesel Vance
• The Act at a Glance
• ROUTINE ONE The Unsent Letter
• ROUTINE TWO Marginalia
• ROUTINE THREE Letters to Ten Years From Now
• ROUTINE FOUR Nine Days
• Putting...

An ancient puzzle, rebuilt to feel like intuition.

The first part of this ebook includes an illustrated course in building 4x4 magic squares to any total, in both a quick style and a balanced, pattern-free style, with practice drills. The second is three fully scripted routines that present the square as intuition rather than arithmetic: an eyes-closed dictation to a spectator's birth year, a business-card square with a pocket-writer kicker, and a remote version for text and video calls.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• About Diesel Vance
• A Very Short History
• PART ONE The Template ...

Are you looking for a fast, hyper-visual opener that commands immediate attention? This high-tempo color-changing card routine packs maximum visual impact into a tight 20-second window.

Included is an explanation video along with the PDF.

What the Audience Sees

• Instant Transformation: The bottom card magically changes as you wave your hand in front of the deck.
• Hyper-Visual Shifts: Execute two back-to-back Shapeshifter changes.
• The Climax: The final card disappears completely using a clean Rub-a-Dub vanish.
• All in under 20 seconds.

Why Working Magicians Need This in Their...

Thanks to his lucky number and his lucky card, the performer finds a chosen card and predicts another.

EFFECT:

The performer displays an envelope containing his lucky number and his lucky card. He then invites two spectators to find their own.

To begin, the performer deals a regular deck into two uneven piles. Spec 1 randomly takes eight cards from the tops of the two piles. Spec 2 freely chooses four of them and leaves the rest to Spec 1. They each add the values of their cards to obtain their lucky number.

Next, Spec 1 deals the deck to his number, remembers the card at that position...

A very direct card routine designed to fool magicians.

The spectator freely selects two cards, which are cut into the middle of the deck. The magician snaps his fingers, and two face-up Jokers appear in the middle of the deck, each immediately followed by one of the selections.

But that's not all. The two Jokers divide the deck into three packets. The top and bottom cards of all three packets reveal the values of the two selections.

1st edition 2026, video 6:19

Performance transcript:

• First, shuffle the deck.
• Next, have the spectator call stop anywhere as I deal the cards. ...

Three cards, chosen at random when “Stop” is called by three different audience members, are revealed by the magician in order of increasing difficulty, until the limit of the unbelievable is nearly reached!

The title refers to a magic experiment with cards, in which the magician, after showing and shuffling a pack of cards, hands it to three members of the audience – chosen to take part – so that they may cut and complete as they please. Once the deck has been returned, the magician begins to deal the cards, stacking them face down until each spectator has called out ‘Stop’ and...

Tre Carte scelte a caso allo Stoppronunciato da Tre Diversi Spettatori,vengono scoperte dal mago in modalità di difficoltà crescente, fino a sfiorare il limite dell’incedibile!

Il titolo, traducibile in italiano con “Sempre un Gioco a Tre”, indica un esperimento di Cartomagia dove il prestigiatore, dopo aver mostrato e mescolato un mazzo di carte, lo consegna a tre spettatori, scelti per partecipare, perché lo taglino e ricompongano a piacere. Ripreso il mazzo, il mago inizia a distribuire le carte, impilandole di dorso fino a che ogni spettatore avrà pronunciato il proprio “Stop”...

Dreizehn Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung seines letzten Heftes hat Sveroni unter dem Titel "Zugabe" noch ein Seminarheft verfasst. Acht praxiserprobte Kunststücke im typischen Sveroni-Stil für Close-up, Salon und Bühne.

Dies ist reine Magie 2.0: Fünf verschiedene Spielkarten werden gemischt, in der Mitte zerrissen und die je fünf Hälften in zwei Ständer gesteckt. Die Zuschauer buchstabieren DIES IST REINE MAGIE Wort für Wort; bei jedem Buchstaben wird aus dem frei gewählten Ständer die vordere Kartenhälfte nach hinten gelegt. Nach jedem Wort passen die vorne sichtbaren Kartenhälften...

The catalog features the new releases for 1981.

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This catalog lists the new releases of the 1981/82 season. From the introduction:

1st edition 1981, PDF 121 pages.

"But even if there were no tricks at all in this volume, it would be a must-have for anyone possessed of even a passing interest in the memorized deck. When I first heard the claim intrinsic in the title of this book, I found it too incredible to believe. But in the time it took simply to read the few instructional chapters, I was convinced that the impossible is now true: You can learn a functional memorized stack in four 90-minute sessions." - Jamy Ian Swiss

In The Six-Hour Memorized Deck, Martin Joyal shows step by step how you can memorize the Joyal Stack in six hours or less!...

"If you are curious about memorized deck work, and would like to dabble for awhile in the shallows before taking the plunge, then the Six-Hour Stack is the way to go. You will be able to do many memorized deck tricks, including in fact much of Mr. Aronson's excellent and varied material." - Jamy Ian Swiss

The Joyal Six-Hour Memorized Stack is a subset of the original work, The Six-Hour Memorized Deck, and is intended for those who just want to learn the stack in six hours or less! At the end of that time, most readers will be able to name the card that lies at any...

"This is madness! My mind is exploding!" - Avi Yap

"Patricio's magic is a combination of the best and the most powerful. It's cutting edge magic!" - Mott-sun

"WOW, that's visual!" - Danny Goldsmith

"I'm a big fan of the matrix routine. Patricio's routine is so unique and his touches are beautiful" - Jeki Yoo

With the Fantasy project you will learn Patricio's underground and personal favorite routines evolved to a whole new level.

• No special table
• No black art
• No camera tricks

The routines taught are:

• The diagonal explosion
• Element
• Chink flash
• Dice surprise
• Fantasy ...

A five-phase card routine.

What if someone hands you an ordinary deck of cards and says, "Show me something"? No special cards. No elaborate setup. Just a deck, a few spectators, and five increasingly impossible effects.

Anytime... with a Deck of Cards is a practical, entertaining routine by Aldo Colombini, designed for those situations when you want to perform strong card magic without any prior setup. The routine consists of five effects that can be performed in sequence or used individually. The spectators do much of the work themselves - shuffling, cutting, dealing and making decisions...

Several big names in magic reveal their favorite tricks in this unique book.

Features effects by Bill Neff - Al Baker - Stewart Judah - Tom Bowyer - Ellis Stanyon - Al Saal - Howard Albright - Art Brandon - Herbert Hicks - Jake Stafford - Lionel Walker - Art Monroe - and Frank Lane.

The magic of each artist is described as if you are seeing it performed on stage, with Frank Lane acting as your master of ceremonies.

Then, each performer explains how their trick was accomplished, just as if you'd been invited to a lecture at a...

A very fooling self-working card routine.

The spectator shuffles the deck and takes 8 cards. They freely choose 3 of them and add up their values. The magician shows the cards one at a time, and the spectator remembers the card at the position corresponding to the total. The magician then shuffles the cards and removes the remaining 5 cards. Their values add up to the exact position of the spectator's selection.

1st edition 2026, video 6:53.

Performance transcript:

• First, shuffle the deck.
• You can let the spectator shuffle the deck.
• Split the deck into two packets and have the...

A true ghost story. Plus three scripts to use or learn from for your next bizarre show.

In 1978, 14-year-old Paul Voodini saw the ghost of a woman in white on the streets of a leafy English suburb. This is the story of that strange encounter, the bizarre events that were to follow, how this led Paul on a journey through the worlds of ghost hunting, bizarre magic, and mentalism, and finally how this experience led to the creation of a theatrical show - 'The White Dress – the Last Great Ghost Story', that was performed in venues throughout England during 2022 and 2023.

Also included are...

Periodical published out of Carroll, Iowa, by Mystical Heith. It ran from April 1917 to June 1918, a total of 15 issues. With the second-to-last issue, it became the official organ of the Brotherhood of Magicians.

Table of Contents

• Volume 1
  • Number 1 (April 1917)
    • Cover: Mystical Heith
    • Editorial
    • General News Items
    • Heith's List
    • Introduction
    • Magic Key Directory
    • Sensational Rope Escape
    • Short History of Magic
    • Splendid Production Cabinet
  • Number 2 (May 1917)
    • Cover: Fay Wrightley
    • Directory
    • Editorial & Advertisement Rates
    • Hand-Cuffs Escape
    • History of Magic
    • Heith's adv. ...

A thoroughly practical handbook, specially written for the use of amateur magicians.

An early pocket guide to conjuring. It is volume 32 of Saxon's "Everybody's Series".

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER I. ELEMENTARY TRICKS
  • Naming Unseen Cards
  • Finding Selected Cards
  • The 21 Card Trick
  • The Long Card
  • Odd and Even Cards
  • The Vanishing Knot
  • The Repaired Ribbon
  • A Selected Coin Found
  • The Suspended Wand
• CHAPTER II. "PALMING," "PASSING," and "FORCING"
  • Palming Coins
  • Palming Cards
  • Palming Handkerchiefs etc
  • "The Pass"
  • "Forcing"
  • The "False Shuffle"
  • The "Slip"
• CHAPTER...

Understand human attention, plus a selection of tricks.

This book has a most wonderful first part with the best summary of attention mechanisms I am aware of in any magic book. A better understanding of these human attention mechanisms allows one to become a more effective magician by clarifying how attention, misdirection, and memory work. Portions of these are covered by other authors, such as Juan Tamariz, but here you get a very nice and complete summary.

Pavel Vošahlík was a friend of Lubor Fiedler, a like-minded creative magician.

The trick section includes...

A parlor/stage routine for Jay Sankey's Against All Odds from the book The Definitive Sankey Vol 2.

Start clean, end up clean. Two different endings.

The magician explains that he is working with a team of magicians on a way to write to someone's memory using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) aka body language.

The magician uses a deck of cards and sends cards to spectators' minds using body language. The spectators then somehow mess things up by saying exactly the cards that the magician had sent. All can be examined; pockets are empty, etc.

1st edition 2026, PDF 19 pages, video...

After years of studying matrix routines, Patricio created Symphony, a wonderful sequence of coins inexplicably vanishing from one place and reappearing at another. Everything is explained in detail from two viewing angles. The four effects are:

• Explosive Impact
• Bunch
• Chink to Chink Plus
• Side Explosion

1st edition 2026, video 16:29

A fooling sandwich routine with a simple, fast effect.

The magician takes out two Jokers and places them on the table, then has the spectator select a card and place it into the middle of the deck, outjogged. The magician then transfers the selection between the two Jokers. But here's the question: if the selection has traveled between the Jokers, what is the outjogged card in the middle of the deck? The magician turns over the card in the middle of the deck, revealing the other card of the same value and suit as the selection. At the same time, the two Jokers instantly change into the other...

In an escalating sequence, the performer reveals predictions of matching colors, numbers, and ultimately a playing card.

EFFECT:

Twelve cards are removed from a regular deck. Four are used as prediction cards. The spectator cuts the remaining eight, mixes them three times, and divides them into two equal piles.

He places the top card of each pile in front of the first prediction and repeats the procedure, placing each pair in front of the next prediction. The pairs are turned face up. Only two of them match in color—one is a red pair and the other a black pair. (The mismatched pairs,...

Monatsschrift für Salon-Magie und alle verwandten Fächer.

Der Zauberkünstler war eine Zeitschrift von der nur die erste Ausgabe verlegt wurde, bzw. erhalten blieb. Vielleicht wurden mehr Ausgaben herausgebracht aber nur Nummer 1 ist uns heute bekannt.

• Vorwort
• Der Kobold im Glase
• Der verschwindende Tannenbaum
• Die Aufhebung der Schwerkraft
• Der Vermehrungsthaler
• Chemische Kunststücke: Wunderbares Changement diverser Flüssigkeiten
• Karten Kunststücke
  • Das Blumenkartenspiel
  • Die springenden Karten
  • Der behexte Spiegel
• Ventriloquistik: Die sprechende Hand
• Automaten: Aesop, der...