Magic & Mentalism: page 316

This work compares the contents of Jean Hugard's Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, Encyclopedia of Self-Working Card Tricks, and The Second Encyclopedia of Card Tricks by Glenn G. Gravatt, to see which effects and discussions were kept, altered, or deleted by Hugard. It will also identify those effects added by Hugard.

1st edition 2020, PDF 19 pages.

This is an excellent magic book that deserves to be known more widely. Bruce Elliott wrote in the foreword:

This is an ebook that will not only amuse you, but it will show you how you can amuse your friends. In dozens of ways, it describes how paper and string can be put to interesting and sometimes astonishing use. If you start at page 1 and work your way to the end of the ebook, you will be rewarded by many hours of enjoyable recreation: but you will not be entirely satisfied until you have tried some of the tricks and puzzles on your friends.

• a Penny Puzzle
• The Paper Ladder
• The Palm Tree
• A Point About A Circle
• The New Square
• The Five Squares Again
• Quartering Three-Quarters
• Splitting Up...

A spectator secretly counts off any number of cards, selects one and mixes it in the packet, which you now take for the first time. You mix them some more, and then she deals them face down, alternately to you and herself. She continues dealing until she is left holding just one card. She turns it over and - it's her selected one!

May be repeated as often as desired. No sleight of hand, markings, duplicates or guess work. Work it with a borrowed deck. Highly endorsed by Le Paul, Carl Lyle, Frazee, Lu Brent, and others.

Only in this revised and expanded edition do you not only get three...

Matteo Filippini's lecture notes dedicated to bold mentalism, the brazen, reckless one. Boldness is a characteristic that, perhaps more than anything else, distinguish mentalism not only from other similar forms of entertainment but also from 'mentalism' that wants to be perfect at all costs. To best explain bold approaches and methods, Matteo describes in detail five routines, simple in methods but absolutely effective for real audiences.

BOLD DRAWING DUPE

An impromptu duplication of spectator's drawing which can be done using only a bunch of business cards and a pen.

HANUSSEN ESP...

Two eye-popping 2 card transpositions using Ablest Change.

• Transposition #1 is for you to pump up your social media.
• Transposition #2 is simply an everyday miracle.

1st edition 2020, length 5:30

Eine Auswahl leicht ausführbarer Zauberkunststücke ohne Apparate, und eine Anzahl antispiritistischer Demonstrationen zur Vorführung in privaten Kreisen.

• Vorwort
• Allgemeine Regeln
• 1. Der Kobold im Glase
• 2. Der Kartenkünstler als Hellseher
• 3. Changement zweier Billardbälle
• 4. Die Schöpfung aus dem Nichts
• 5. Die Durchdringung der Stoffe
• 6. Das schwimmende Stück Zucker
• 7. Die magische Tüte
• 8. Kunststück mit einem Thaler
• 9. Die Quelle im Messer
• 10. Der geheimnisvolle Sahara-Sand
• 11. Der Geldregen
• 12. Die unzertrennlichen Buben
• 13. Die Kartenparade
• 14. Das wunderbare Glas ...

Beyond Heaven is a PDF and video project on a series of effects which relate to the plots of Saint and Sinner divination form photos (close up version) and a Living and Dead Test which is suitable for stage, parlor and close-up acts.

Effect 1 (Basic effect Outline)

Living and Dead Test: stage, parlor and close-up version

Even before the show starts you hand your spectator a picture in a photo frame which is one half of a complete photo and an old newspaper article, which acts as a prediction. Then you hand the other spectator a stack of photos which are torn in half, and the spectator...

Hier werden verschiedene Kunststücke für den Anfänger beschrieben. Jedoch Anfänger ist relativ. Den Kugelfang würde man heute sicherlich nicht in einem Anfängerbuch bringen. Es wird auch das Bauchreden und das Schwarze Theater behandelt.

• Vorwort
• Eine Zauber-Soiree
  • Einrichtung, Vorbereitungen
  • Beginn der Vorstellung
  1. Der reisende Kanarienvogel
  2. Die indischen Bänder oder die magische Befreiung
  3. Ein wunderbares Rauchkunststück
  4. Der Klotz des Ritters Pinetti
  5. Das magnetische Fluidum und dessen Wirkung
  6. Die höllische Küche
  7. Die magische Taubenpost
  8. Uebertragung der Gedanken von...

Magicians are exposed to all kinds of magic. Illusions, card, coin, close-up, and other types of magic pass through our hands/eyes almost on a daily basis. There is no way a magician can remember them all. But with a good backup system, bringing them back into your performance can be easy as read/follow instructions.

• Preface
• What is backup and purpose?
• Where do I start?
• Time to input information
• Cross reference sheets
• Keep it up
• Wrapping it up

1st edition 2020, PDF 16 pages.

3 gimmickless in-hand card tricks.

AMBIENCE // A multi utility card move that can be used both as a control to the top or as a reversal at the bottom.

DYAD // An in-hand Card At Any Number.

DYAD 2.0 // An in-hand two card transposition ending with a surreal ending.

DYAD 3.0 // An unusual card trick based on the idea of an in-hand triumph with a colour changing deck finale.

Honest Note :: Each of the 3 clips in the demo video was shot in one single take to let you see how it'll look in real time.

1st edition 2020, length 20 min

An in-hand two card transposition with a surreal ending.

In the demo video I am simply using two cards, these can very well be selected (forced) cards, the explanation video has a couple of methods for it. In this download you'll also learn the Ambience Control. It is an essential move for the in-hand two card transposition.

1st edition 2020, length 13 min

Who can predict where in the deck someone will shuffle their card, to the specifics, e.g. a certain number of cards down into the deck? Even creepier would be if it relates to something you uttered beforehand as if it made it happen.

Imagine this. You mention a scenario where they are 2 or 3 off guessing the amount of candies in a jar. Then the spectator thinks of any card, shuffles the deck they're holding, then finds that card 2 or 3 off from your written prediction just like the candy scenario. The only other outcomes would be if it's just 1 off or dead-on, but you're covered there too...

The following effect, "All That Jazz," was first published in Gregg Webb's underground magic newsletter, FEEN-X in 2000.

• A great packet trick with normal cards - no gaffs are used.
• Packed with surprises, eight cards transpose and assemble in front of your audience in the cleanest manner.
• The cards are displayed face up at key points in the performance. Gregg's setup allows you to present the trick as slowly as desired - no discrepancies can be seen by the sharpest spectator.

1st edition 2020, 4 pages.

This is an interesting analysis of how a magic trick works in terms of psychological processes. A better understanding of the underlying science does help the performing magician.

Translated from the German by Mrs. Emily S. Boyer. The original German essay appeared in Psychologische Skizzen by Edmund W. Rells, which was a pseudonym of Max Dessoir.

1st edition 1893, PDF 21 pages.

Jastrow explains the various types of deception and discusses in particular how conjurers as well as spirit mediums make use of them.

1st edition 1888, PDF 10 pages.

Illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy.

From the preface:

Here is French's personal method of making a "spirit answer" appear on a borrowed slate ... while sealed inside an envelope and held by a spectator. The spectator's initials may be written on the frame of the slate to prove that there are no switches of any kind employed. This mind-numbing mystery can be worked solo, as a one-man effect, with an ungimmicked slate. Instead of a slate, black cardboard or artist board can be substituted. Complete routine, with three presentations described, for stage, party or séance. Absolutely no flaps, switches, gimmicked slates or chemicals used. No stooges...

• 2020: New Website Design
• Market To Market / Business Cards
• Never Judge A Book By Its Lack Of Cover
• Lectures
• Silence can add Drama
• Customer Materials
• Lybrary.com
• Do You Belong?

1st edition 2020, 10 pages.

• Market To Market
• Repair, Touchup and Replace
• Gold Mine / My Closet
• Warm Up
• Oops, Now What
• Shelf Life of Referrals
• Help Those that Hire You

1st edition 2020, 10 pages.

Der Titel würde einem glauben machen wollen daß es sich hier um lauter Kartenkunststücke handelt. Das ist aber nicht der Fall. Neben Kartengriffen und -tricks werden auch Zauberkunststücke aus anderen Sparten bis hin zu Illusionen beschrieben und erklärt.

• Zwei Experimente mit einer "Kleiderbürste"
• Ein hübscher Taschentuchtrick und der - gelbe Fleck im Auge
• Der "Farbentrick"
• Magisches Mischen
• Ziehen Sie eine Karte!
• Experiment "mit Geduld" von Weiß auf Schwarz
• Zahlen nach Tafeln erraten
• Ein "Hellsehertrick"
• Eine Addition wird im voraus bestimmt!
• Noch ein Rechentrick
• Eine heimlich...

A short lived house organ of Arthur Ivey and Co. from Islington, London, UK. It includes a few tricks, advertisement, and an incomplete 'Dictionary of Conjuring'.

Volume 1, No. 1: July 1921

• Editorial
• Second-hand Books
• A Dictionary of Conjuring
• Ad: No. 40. Chango
• Pipit! / Illinois
• Novel Milk Combination / A. Ivey
• Important Notice
• Second-hand Apparatus
• Ad: No. 74. Illinois' Mystery Boxes

• Editorial
• Second-hand Books
• A Dictionary of Conjuring (continued)
• Ad: No. 1. The Cigarette Box; No. 2. A Table Coin Dropper
• A Silk Problem / Arthur Ivey
• Ad:...

This is David Devant's autobiography. On top of his personal recollections he included three chapters on how to perform magic, and six chapters on the history of magic.

• Publisher's Note
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Pictures Of My Early Life
• CHAPTER I. My Introduction To Magic
• CHAPTER II The Hot Pudding And The Vanishing Lady
• CHAPTER III Mixing Magic With Midgets
• CHAPTER IV My Attack On London
• CHAPTER V I Appear With Maskelyne
• CHAPTER VI The First Animated Pictures
• CHAPTER VII Magical Sketches
• CHAPTER VIII A Feast Of Magic
• CHAPTER IX Magic And The Public
• CHAPTER X Secrets Of Magic ...

The following effect, Twist and Untwist, enables you to practice and perform your "Steeplechase" coin roll with impunity - no more worries of dropping the coin.

• You are always ready to perform - no coin purse needed.
• Effective either as a flourish on its own, or when included as part of a coin routine.

1st edition 2020, 3 pages.