Magic & Mentalism: page 278

Finally a cost-effective method for establishing ambiance in the candlelit seance room by recording the proceedings and having them unexpectedly interrupted by a series of unintelligible guttural sounds.

Finally a routine that doesn't break the flow of the seance routine while the medium and the sitters make sense of the fully customizable sounds.

Based on an idea from Bob Cassidy, this video tutorial finally visually demonstrates step-by-step how to leverage the power of a free user-friendly laptop app (Windows/Mac Os/Unix) to achieve the above and more.

1st edition 2018, length 11 min 39...

"Hidden": A secret hidden in most decks of cards. You already have it. It can be used for magic or mentalism effects as it will add something "bizarre" or intriguing to your card tricks. Or as a double kicker. YOu will use it in your existing routines or invent new ones. Guaranteed. A typical example is "The Fine Print" by Jay Sankey. The difference is that you can do it impromptu, without buying a gimmick, and with some touch of mentalism.

"You remove a playing card from a deck of cards and leave it face down on the table as a prediction. A spectator then selects a card from the deck, but...

Timeline is a 3 minute short, scripted and theatrical close-up act using a borrowed deck of playing cards.

With only 2 basic sleights and your script you're able to make people feel that they're watching an expert at work. You tell a short essay on time and magic happens almost by itself while the essay is being narrated.

Each action and revelation is perfectly supported by the script. Here are the opening lines - "If there is one thing no-one can escape from – it is time. In fact even if you go out into the space or deep under water, you’re still dominated by time because your oxygen...

Originally published as Pleasure Moments with the Magic Man. A nearly impossible to find book of occult-themed magic and mentalism is now back and better than ever.

Updated text and graphics have been added to this vintage text, containing a nice bridge to the past and present. No difficult sleights are required. Instructions are included for constructing the necessary apparatus to present these fine demonstrations to your own audiences.

CONTENTS:

• Preface
• Foreword
• "Spirit Guide" Card Location in the Dark
• "Muscle Reading" Card Trick
• No-Sleight Card Location
• How to Use the "Peg Card"...

A magic wand disappears and re-appears. Then suddenly a lump of coal magically appears. The lump of coal disappears and re-appears three times and on the third complete disappearance it jumps into the pocket. Then the lump of coal multiplies into two lumps of coal, then it multiplies into three lumps of coal. To simplify spectator observation, two lumps of coal are removed and the last lump of coal is squeezed tightly in the hand causing the coal to change "under pressure" into a diamond which is given to the lady as a gift.

1st edition 2014, 29 pages

Just in time for your Halloween shows. While the rest of the group stands in a circle reading in unison the ritual instructions printed on what appears to be an aged piece of parchment paper, the person who'll be receiving the benefits of the ritual sits at a small table in the center of the circle with a piece of paper, matches, pen, candle, and plate. As that person follows the instructions being read by the group, the ritual unfolds - working itself. The only suggestion is to collect the ritual instruction sheets at the end of the ceremony to keep the mystery in the experience - preventing...

How to tie a vanishing figure 8 knot and a script that makes the process more enjoyable and entertaining.

Everyone probably knows how to vanish an overhand knot, or even a Chefalo knot. But how many know how to vanish a figure 8 knot?

How to tie a true figure 8 knot as well as the false figure 8 knot are both shown and are virtually identical. The script provided shows how it can stand on it's own, but it would also fit nicely into a routine with knots. An audience member can even help you tie the knot, and they'll be none the wiser.

Best of all, it's free.

1st edition 2018, 20 pages....

Creative mentalism at its finest.

• Foreword by David Acer
• Mind Opener: no setup, no props, no stooge, no nothing .. but chutzpah.
• E.S. Pizza
• Pool Master
• P.K. Divination
• Flash Thought
• Drawing Ceremony
• Simplex Chair Mystery
• Invisible Touches

Full title is: Original Creation for Magicians Hitherto Kept "Up His Sleeve". Waller was a highly creative magician.

• Publisher's Note
• Introduction
• Perverse Magic
  • "The Cantankerous Handkerchief"
  • "The Golliwog Ball"
  • "The Impish Card"
• "The Secret Tube"
  • "The Growth of Flowers"
• The Nest of Boxes
• The Rising Cards
• The Mountain of Flags
• "A Four Ace Climax"
• The "Turn Over" Force
• The "Rainbow" Force
• Full or Empty
• The Big Production
  • A Basket of Flowers
  • The Big Bowl
• "The Fourth Dimension"
• Charlie Chaplin and "Spooky Ookum"
• The Utility Fans
• The Candle That Was
• "In the...

All audiences know of Houdini and his incredible escapes. Here's an effect where you demonstrate his incredible feats in a most magical way!

Effect: Houdini escapes three times from being tied up. The last escape is under the fairest and most impossible conditions -- in the spectator's hand. You start and end clean. All is examinable before and after. A rope, tied around your fingers and hand, melts through twice; and then Houdini escapes a third and final time slowly, off the spectators hand under challenging conditions.

1st edition 2013, 27 pages + 9 min video

• The Goofy Card
• The Persistent Card
• The Mind of Mephistopheles
• Intuition or What?
• Peculiarities of the Pasteboards
• Mental Power
• Surprise Speller
• The Educated Cards
• Albright’s Instantaneous Method For Determining the Number of Letters Required to Spell Any Card
• Triple-Stop Disclosure
• Lucky Number

PDF 25 pages

A classic publication with wonderful coin magic, some card tricks and cut and restored rope. Slydini adopted some routines from Benzais.

• The "Coins Through The Table"
  • First Effect (For One Coin)
  • Second Effect (For Two Coins)
  • Third Effect (For Four Coins)
  • Han Ping 'Benzais'
  • With Six Coins
  • Something Extra The Benzais Grip
  • Again With Six Coins
  • It Doesn't Belong Here
  • One Handed Method
• Just A Few More "Coin Tricks"
  • 5c For Your Thoughts
  • The Benzais Concealment
  • Transit Dime
  • Follow-Up For Transit
  • A Simple Vanish
  • Another Simple Vanish
  • Not So Simple
• Different Types Of Card Tricks ...

Effect: A collection of coins of different denominations is displayed on the table. The right hand is kept well away from the coins, which are then gathered up one at a time by the left hand. The left and right hands are closed into fists. A magical gesture is made, and all of the coins vanish from the left hand and appear in the right hand…but wait…one of the coins failed to go across. The coin is picked up with the left hand, the hands are closed into fists, a magical gesture is made, and the final coin travels from the left hand to the right hand.

This “Instant Coins Across” routine...

Compiled by Steve Reynolds. The PDF consists of color photos of Don's original props and choice transcriptions of conversations between Don Alan, Jon Racherbaumer, and earle Christenberry.

You'll learn the history of the Chop Cup, Micro Macro and meeting Paul LePaul, the Devano Deck and the best glass for it, and Ring Flight and the master Al Koran.

Learn the backstory and the finesse of these Don Alan signatures. Get the real secrets of a strong effect and Don's thoughts on Charlie Miller's Cups and Balls and Larry Jennings' Chop Cup routine. You'll also hear about Don's friends, including fond and funny memories of his prop maker, Howard Bamman. Don also...

Not one or two...rather three new approaches for propless drawing revelations from the mind of Silas Linden.

In Drawing you will get 3 methods to being able to, in a propless and conversational way, reveal anyone's thought of drawing.

1. Clouds: Your participant will visualize his drawing, and you can get it.

2. Sunshine: Just with a simple, natural action, you will secretly know the participant's thought.

3. Reciprocity: A real connection between you and your participant will allow fantastic moments of mystery.

The power of words, imagination and visualization in real manners....

In diesem Seminarheft finden sich Ideen, Tricks und Routinen, die im Seminar 2018 gezeigt wurden. Das Notizbuch wurde den Originalen stark nachempfunden, und es sieht fast so aus, als ob man einen Blick in meine Notizbücher wirft. Wie immer zählen Kleinigkeiten und Raffinessen mehr als schwierige Griffe. Einige der Routinen kann man getrost als Selbstgänger ansehen.

NEU ist die Form: zu fast jedem Trick gibt es nun ein Video, auf dem man den relevanten Griff oder die Abfolge sehen kann. Ich habe mir dazu viele Gedanken gemacht und bin zu dieser pragmatischen Lösung gekommen. Somit hast...

Ein Arbeitsbuch mit allen Feinheiten zu diesem Griff sowie der neuen Beancounter-Routine und einigen Tipps und Anregungen. Im Download enthalten sind das PDF sowie einige Kurzvideos, die die Abläufe zeigen.

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Erstausgabe 2018, 72 Seiten und 5 Videoclips.

Avete mai desiderato ipnotizzare qualcuno perché acquisti una memoria fotografica? Ora potete creare questa illusione, usando un fantastico principio, applicato in modo innovativo. L'effetto si avvale solo di un mazzo di carte (che può esser preso in prestito, senza che siano necessari set up...infatti non dovrete nemmeno toccare le carte). Dopo che lo spettatore ha mischiato le carte a piacimento, chiedetegli di guardare brevemente ognuna delle carte. Grazie ad un'induzione ipnotica, farete in modo che ricordi la posizione di ogni carta. Poniamo che lo spettatore venga "testato" per ritrovare...

• Make Conventions Affordable
• Clean You Cannot See
• Louis Armstrong Tribute
• Book Covers/Graphics
• Marketing Outside the Box
• Customer's Investment
• 2 Things You Never See
• Cardboard Displays
• Look Beyond the Magic

1st edition 2018, 10 pages.

Long-time Australian pro magician, Kevin Casaretto, has assembled a volume of 10 fantastic effects with as many different themes with patter, using one of three gaffed cards that all magicians already own.

Magicians - you are given an incredible diversity of top-flight magic...transpositions, transmutations, vanishes, appearances, an assembly, gambling themes, ESP, classics of magic, and incredible topological problems - all within this one e-book. 10 amazing effects all eked out after years of performances.

Some may say "Oh I don't use gaffs...I'm a purist!" That's fine...but don't blame...

In this rare manuscript, the fertile mind of "Hen" Fetsch - with some editorial help from California publisher Lloyd E. Jones - reveals several of his favorite effects, betchas, tips and gags with miniature cards.

"Hen" also tips the way he prepares himself to be able to perform these effects at a moment's notice -- even with a borrowed deck. No difficult sleights are required. All moves and setup are well-explained and illustrated.

CONTENTS:

• Introduction
• Simplicity Force
• Stick with Me, Kid
• Last Chance, Brother
• Simplicity False Cut
• Direct Approach
• My Favorite Trick
• Stung Stab ...

"Ralph Felder has created a meaningful read for those interested in all aspects of magic ..." - Randall Eller

"Ralph has created a great system for beginners and semi-professional magicians to evaluate their performances and improve on their craft. This book truly shines for those looking to make the transition into magic with the goal of becoming a professional ..." - Maxwell Blade

• Application of creative and critical thinking concepts which can help you invent magic and...

This bundle consists of both the PDF and the one hour download video.

Inner secret coin magic after decades revealed. Detailed written instructions with dozens of photographs to assist in the learning of all the moves and new coin sleights. A full workers routine which may be performed in part of in whole depending upon the performance environment. Honed and refined in the underground over decades to its fundamental entertainment and performance simplicity. Promises kept for decades that portions of this material would never be performed before magicians and only performed before laymen so as to keep the exclusivity of the methods underground. Only now available...