Magic & Mentalism: page 313

Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2020; 60 pages
Cover: 4MG - The Boyband of Magic

4. The Team
4. Editor's comments
4. What's Inside This Issue
6. 4MG - The Stage Is Set - cover article/interview
14. Making An Impact - How to Generate Great Table Reactions when Performing Commercial Close Up - Mark Leveridge
16. Kris Sheppard - interview
20. Magic & Technology - Cooper McRae
24. Shaman & Showman - Magic and Healing; Magic with Meaning; Magic and Hope - interview by Jay Fortune
27. Getting Started ... with Magic Singh
30. Bucking The Trend - The Rise of Megan Knowles-Bacon - interview by Mark Leveridge
34. Reader's Letters - Have Your...

Fogel's presentation is impressive, a fascinating story which unfolds in front of the very eyes of the audience. The routine consists of a block penetration effect, spirit knots, and a spirit slate effect using two ungimmicked pieces of blackboard. Additionally you will need candle, candlestick, and a photograph of Harry Houdini.

From the foreword:

PDF 15 pages

A compilation of five impossible to find card magic manuscripts of the 1920s and 1930s from the self-styled Gambling Detective. These manuscripts originally cost the equivalent of $120 when first released. Now, in this compilation, they are available for less than the price of a fast food lunch.

You get Mickey's Favorite four Ace Routine: The four Aces are placed face up on the table, then three indifferent cards are placed on the top of each ace. After one pile is shown to actually contain an ace and three indifferent cards, the four cards are shown again, back and front, and the ace has...

During the 1970's Dai Vernon demonstrated this around the Magic Castle to anyone who was interested. He was quite fond of it. It is a neat, highly deceptive, practical hole card switch using natural actions, something he highly favored.

1st edition 2020, PDF 4 pages, video 12s.

With this compilation, like my others, my goal is to discover the "bits and pieces" and, in this particular case, to partially answer how and why The Lazy Man's Card Trick came into being.

Table of Contents

• A Few Words Before You Begin
• Introduction
  • An Inauspicious Beginning
  • Origin Story: The Seed
  • The Row of Ten Cards (S. W. Erdnase)
  • About the Supposed Operative Principle
  • Ziska's Incomprehensible Card Effect
  • Incomprehensible Divination (Hilliard)
  • Who Was Ziska?
• A Morphing Begins
  • That Number Down (Doc Miller)
  • The Traveling Card (Jack Miller) ...

Beyond the Eight major pieces of material, not to mention sleights and subtleties, that have remained unavailable since the 20-year run of the New Tops ended, Wesley James has completed the task of fulfilling Ed Marlo's expressed wishes, keeping his material available "for the guys."

If the long-unavailable Marlo items were all Wesley compiled, this would be an important contribution to the literature of card magic. As tribute to Ed, Wesley wanted this volume to offer more. So, he added clarifications and corrections - both logical and grammatic - plus his own personal Notes....

The Spell Deck is an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use memorized deck. Just a couple of very simple rules and you instantly know the value of any given position and vice versa. The Spell Deck is also flexible in that the same rules can be used to generate 4 different memorized decks. All that is explained clearly.

S.O.S Vol3 is included in this ebook. It contains 3 cool ideas for ordering suits, not just for the Spell Deck, but can be used for other stacks as well. When you combine the 4 variants of Spell Deck with these 3 Suit Ordering Systems and their built-in variants, you can create a whopping...

Als Feuerwehrhauptmann weiß Karo mit Feuer umzugehen. Feuer ist eine seiner Spezialitäten. In diesem E-Buch sammelt er eine ganze Reihe seiner Ideen mit Feuer, von den besten Zündmechanismen, Blitzen und feurigen Üeberraschungen.

• WARNUNG!
• Zündmechanismen
• FÜR EINE HANDVOLL FEUER
  • Sesam Blitze
  • Waberlohe
  • Feuer aus Hand
  • Brennende Fingerhüte
  • Brennende Handschuhe
• FLAMBIERTE ... MIRAKEL
  • Feuerschale
  • Stockspielereien
  • Stock zu 2 Fakeln
  • Schwebender, Brennender und Tanzender Stab
  • Brennender Riesenchip
  • Brennend Erscheinender Kandelaber
  • Kerzen Manipulationen
  • Brennender Kartenfächer ...

Tricks, tips, hints on a wide variety of subjects

Includes a Thumb Tip finesse, how to tell time during your show, a billet or money holder, making an egg for the silk and egg trick, and even a software program (with source code) for generating random runs of cards to use when practicing, and many more items.

1st edition 2020, PDF 55 pages.

In this download, Doan teaches you three very magical, impromptu effects using just one rubber band.

BUDDHISM - Wrap the band around your fingers and make it jump through them.

POILOCK - The band on your index finger jumps to your middle finger instantly.

SINGL8 - Visually form an 8 with the band within a second.

All of these amazing effects are taught in slow motion and are easy to understand. Download the video and start learning now.

1st edition 2020, length 6:10

The famous British mentalist, Maurice Fogel, leveraged his success as performer to branch out into the self-help category, by writing this book. He writes:

• Foreword
• The Mind Is Lazy
• Controlled By Subconscious
• Secret Of Hypnotism
• Learn To Relax
• Power Of Suggestion ...

In this second manuscript in Fogel's Top Secrets series, he explains his system of how to develop a new routine, what he calls "The Fogel Formula". It is a system of how to structure and proceed with your training and development towards a particular goal. Fogel is using his success system for things he wants to achieve in general not just magic.

Fogel demonstrates how his formula operates by applying it to a question he often received after his shows: "Can you tell fortunes?" To address this frequent question he developed a particular routine involving a zodiac chart. The chart, the routine,...

Written by a past master at the art of misdirection, many of the effects are off the beaten path, revealing the original and creative mind of the author. Here's what magical inventor R. W. Hull had to say about a few of Sandu's original mysteries:

Available again at long last is this comprehensive work explaining the brilliant thimble artistry of Jimmy Shannon. Jimmy Shannon was the talk of the magic world in the 1930s and 40s, with his beautifully orchestrated thimble manipulation act. His moves were accepted by experts as the most original, most unusual and altogether fascinating of his day. When the time came for Shannon's moves to be recorded for posterity, the task was given to a young writer who was already making a name for himself: Arthur Leroy. In fact, it was felt that Jimmy Shannon's moves were so entirely different from average...

Add to your arsenal of outstanding mental and card effects with this hard to find manuscript from a recognized master of deception. These exclusive secrets will serve you in good stead throughout your performing career, no matter whether you're a professional, semi-pro, or hobbyist.

Contains ten effects, plus as many as four methods for performing each one, all patiently and painstakingly explained. You may, in fact, chuckle to yourself as you read the practical, yet diabolical methods -- they're so darned clever. They all have the "Baker Twist", where gimmicks and ruses are used on the off...

Ein interessantes Buch mit im Allgemeinen leichten Tricks mit und ohne Apparate, einem Kapitel mit Kartentricks und einem Kapitel mit Fesselungstricks. Im Kapitel der Fesselungstricks bespricht Suhr Harry Houdini und seine Vorstellungen in Deutschland. Für Erdnase Forscher gibt es auch in diesem Suhr Buch wieder einige Indizien dass Erdnase dieses Buch wahrscheinlich kannte.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Vorwort
• Erster Teil. Experimente ohne Apparate
  1. Ein Rechenkunststück
  2. Münze und Wasserglas
  3. Ein Geldkunststück
  4. Die wandernden Flaschen
  5. Täuschung des Gehörs
  6. Ein Wunder aus...

Una routine automatica in sei fasi con tantissime sorprese… Nessuna abilità richiesta!

E ora… una meravigliosa sequenza di brillante magia con le carte che è possibile eseguire senza alcuna abilità e senza mosse o destrezze particolari. NON UN SINGOLO GIOCO, ma un’intera serie di numeri fusi insieme e presentati uno dopo l’altro, tutti derivanti da un’intelligente pre-ordine di un normale mazzo di carte.

POTRETE ESEGUIRLO SUBITO! Dovrete solamente imparare il semplice procedimento per presentarlo al meglio. Il funzionamento è interamente AUTOMATICO. Sorprenderà anche voi...

In this publication Fogel reveals his famous rope tie technique. From the foreword:

• Foreword
• Introductory Address
• The Routine
• Requirements
• Explanation
• The Fogel Rope Tie in Action
• Production of the Whisky Bottle
• Summary
• Concluding Observations
• Finale

1st edition 1961,...

Two books in one, containing the secrets of a professional's act of club and mental magic, plus his favorite card effects.

We love it when a working performer tips the actual methods from his act. And that's what you get in the first half of this enjoyable ebook, which was originally released as a limited edition. The second half contains Sandu's favorite card effects. While not all of the effects in this section are self-working, they rely on sleights that the average performer already knows.

Inside you'll find described a pair of excellent livestock effects that you can make yourself;...

During the 1925-26 season this program was sold at Houdini's shows in the lobby of theaters.

• Houdini - A Biography
• Some of the Wonderful Feats Accomplished by Houdini
• Houdini's Greatest Thrill
• Magical Tricks and Illusions
  • The Vanishing Matches
  • The Mysterious Thumb Tie
  • The Vest Turning Mystery
  • The Spirit Release
  • The Spirit Knots
  • The Vanishing Knot
  • Surgery Extraordinary
  • The Restored Tooth-pick
  • Black or Red
  • A Good Coin Trick
  • The Sphinx
  • The Thauma Illusion
  • The Magic Butterflies
  • The Rope Amputation
  • A Subtle Dime Vanish
• A Few Personal Facts
• Houdini Reveals He "Reads" Minds ...

An ungimmicked and easy-to-do double transformation with playing cards using the spectator's signature.

The magician displays a red-backed Joker. "Jokers can be useful in any card game but they also have interesting properties for magicians. Let me show you how." A spectator selects and signs a card in a blue-backed deck. The magician buries the signed card and inserts the Joker into the deck. "When in contact with the deck, the Joker is able to take the identity of any selected card, including yours." He spreads the cards face down to show the red-backed Joker in the middle. The red-backed...

An effortless CAAN that the audience performs for themselves.

Features:

• You never touch the deck of cards.
• Can be done Close-up, Parlour or on Stage

Honest Note: While you don't touch...

Laugh three times as hard when you purchase all three ebooks.

Funny stuff to make kids roar.

• Introduction
• Inflatable Rabbit and In the Bag
• My snake has Escaped! and Fingernails
• In bed with a Bug and The Rose
• Half-price Tie, The Mirror, and The Wrong Way
• The Bell ...