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Telepathy above and beyond a book test. Innovative methods, sleights, and stratagems.

Once Removed offers a novel approach to demonstrating telepathy between two people. It allows a performer to receive multiple mental images from an audience volunteer, based on a freely selected book never read by either person before. Move beyond any book test to an astonishing telempathic experience.

This is the master guide for the Once Removed Series from which A Novel Thought, Engage, Thrifty, ABAT and Steroid Telempathy evolved.

This ebook includes all of these applications, plus the concepts and theory behind Beta Framing, Imbed, Tritech, Book...

Questo effetto unisce quello della ripetizione delle sei carte con quello del giornale strappato e ricomposto con una meravigliosa presentazione di Ken De Courcy.

Un quarto di foglio di giornale, viene strappato in sei pezzi. Due pezzi vengono scartati. Quando i pezzi vengono contati, ci sono di nuovo sei pezzi…

Questa volta vengono scartati quattro pezzi. Quando i pezzi rimanenti vengono contati, ci sono di nuovo sei pezzi di carta!

Infine, vengono scartati cinque fogli di carta. Ora nella mano è rimasto solo un pezzo di carta. All'improvviso l'unico pezzo di carta diventa il foglio...

From the preface:

Palming cards, and getting away with it, is one of the most difficult skills in the magician's toolbox. If you've ever wanted to master this sleight here is your chance. This concise tutorial will get you started, or improve your current technique, in order to raise your confidence level. This lesson covers the one-hand top palm.

1st edition 2021, PDF + video (length: 16 s)

Here's an expanded and updated edition of the second and final Paul Curry manuscript in the series with a pair of powerful effects that'll give you a reputation as an outstanding magician and psychic entertainer. Both of these card miracles exhibit the brilliant methodology that you've come to expect from Paul Curry.

Think Of A Card

A spectator merely thinks of a card. The performer jots down the name of a card. The spectator names his card and the performer shows what he wrote - it's the name of the thought-of card. A clean-cut, logical effect.

Follow-up

This is a variation of the...

Here's an expanded and updated edition of a Paul Curry manuscript that contains not one, but two powerful effects that will give you a reputation as an outstanding magician and psychic entertainer.

Probability Zero

A batch of business cards are numbered and mixed, with their number sides down. A truly sensational climax is reached when a spectator, although he selects the cards at random and doesn't know the numbers on the cards, succeeds in arranging them in numerical order. Is it just chance? Not likely - the odds are over 300,000 to 1 against it.

The Color-Changing Deck

A new...

How to entertain and amuse children or adult audiences with a pocket handkerchief.

From the introduction by Clive Maskelyne:

"Most of us only know how to show off with our magic skills, Adam is putting his to worthwhile and inspiring use. Excellent stuff." - Derren Brown

"This book is full of original ideas for the mentalist performer, I wholeheartedly recommend it." - Marc Oberon

• Introduction by Marc Oberon
• A Named Card in Envelope:...

A brand new approach to the ACAAN plot and an exciting way to reveal any spectator's birthday.

Sum It Up

A packet of playing cards is mixed and a spectator freely names any card from within. Next, a small whiteboard or notepad is introduced and the performer writes down sixteen consecutive numbers, inviting the spectator to select four. The four chosen numbers are added together, creating a final total. This generated total is counted to in the packet, locating the one card that occupies that position. The card arrived at proves to be the very one named by the spectator at the beginning...

An incredible series of effects of nine pairs of cards (with drawings of animals). Three tricks that you can concatenate together into a long, incredible, magic sequence. Plus an amazing effect performed during the 2007 lecture tour by Aldo Colombini and Rachel Wild.

The effects are:

• Parallel
• Paradise
• Glass Palace
• Surprise

Complete with card templates and detailed explanations, easy to do.

1st edition 2001, PDF 7 pages.

Un'incredibile serie di effetti con nove coppie di carte (con disegni di animali). Tre effetti che puoi concatenare insieme in una lunga, incredibile, magica sequenza. Inoltre un effetto sorprendente eseguito durante il tour di conferenze del 2007 da Aldo Colombini e Rachel Wild.

Gli effetti sono:

• Parallelo
• Paradiso
• Palazzo di Vetro
• Sorpresa

1a edizione 2001, PDF 7 pagine.

Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2021; 60 pages
Cover: The Amazing Johnathan

4. The Team
4. Editor's comments
4. Contents
6. The Amazing Johnathan - Big Talent, Big Gags, Big Money! - cover article/interview by Graham Hey
9. Either ... Or? - with Alan Hudson
12. In The Phonebox with Deborah Francois
12. Did You Know?
12. All Day and All of the Night with Ning
14. Chris Cross - The Great Magician of the North
19. Reader's Letters
19. It's a Must Have! - Classic magic from the recent past
20. Deposits and Withdrawals - How to 'bank' on an audience's approval - Jake Strong
23. Masterclass
    23. Pocket Mule - Andi Gladwin
    26. 57 Cents And...

Werner Miller is in particular known for his ESP tricks, to which he has dedicated a lot of thought and effort over the years. For example, the late Aldo Colombini was a big fan of Werner's ESP tricks. This ebook is almost exclusively dedicated to ESP tricks.

• To Aldo
• Auto-Psi
• Drill Formation
• quini
• kif-kif 1
• kif-kif 2
• kif-kif 3
• Scorta
• 2 x 5, Australian Style
• Invocation
• V for Five
• Stripped Down
• The Nonconformist
• Milky Way I
• Milky Way II
• Nada
• Metamorphoses 1
• Metamorphoses 2
• Parade of the Parrots I
• Parade of the Parrots II

1st edition 2021, 29 pages.

A series of light-weight semi-automatic tricks that appeared 2013 in Rick Carruth's Magic Roadshow Online Magazine.

1. Royal Fluff
2. Royal Liar
3. French Sandwich
4. Auto-"Mate"
5. Lonely Stranger
6. As Often As You Want
7. Treasure Diver
8. Circles & Squares
9. Discard Eight
10. Color Triplets
11. Four Black Cards
12. Undo
13. Another Color Separation
14. Red/Black Sandwich
15. Matriarchy
16. Any Diamond
17. Found By the Joker
18. The Happy Medium
19. Anyone Seeing His Card?
20. The Last Card
21. Not That Diamond
22. Another Negative Clue
23. Detour
24. Hybrid
25. Misleading
26. Families
27. Long Distance Surprise
28. Sixpack

This is a free extract of Jan Bardi's excellent Entropy Dropping ebook. The full version thoroughly explores a 100% hands-off "volunteer as psychic" plot and method.

Explorations of a 100% hands-off "volunteer as psychic" plot and method.

"I find 'Entropy Dropping' an amazing piece of work. Jan creates a world of new possibilities and I doubt anyone else could have tackled the topic as thoroughly. Every nuance is addressed. Many applications are covered. Accompanying his explanation are dozens of routines. Being a card man at heart, I was especially attracted to the four card magic chapters. Great inspiration all! I envy Jan's clarity and how painstakingly thorough he is in explaining the material and creating so many effects. I know how difficult that...

• Ghost Writing
• Articles for Abraca-Poof
• Market to Market
• Working for Tips
• Fumble Advantage
• Guest Speaker Training
• Agents
• Variety Shows
• Transporting Magic

From the introduction:

In this ebook Eric Hawkesworth deals with the whole art of entertaining with puppets. He gives detailed instructions on how to make many different kinds of puppets, and the stages for them to perform on - everything from a Punch and Judy booth to a model theatre. Construction methods are simple and clearly illustrated by the author's diagrams, and the materials are inexpensive. Each section of the ebook describes a complete act using a particular form of puppet - glove, 'living' marionette (in which the performer's head appears as the head of the miniature puppet), finger, shadow, rod, and string....

Entertaining tricks and amusements with coins.

From the introduction:

The Knight's Tour has been a feature of many renowned performers. Ricky Jay and Reveen made it a masterful demonstration of mental agility. Various methods have been developed to create this illusion. We offer a foolproof device to ensure your success in presenting this fascinating feat of uncanny skill.

This gimmick builds on an idea by Robert Sherman from the 1950s.

1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages.

If you suffer from any kind of performance anxiety (and Kellar, Thurston, Houdini, and many prominent present-day performers have had to deal with it, too), this could be the best purchase you'll ever make.

There's nothing like the healthy satisfaction or "natural high" that comes from giving a great performance. Yet if you suffer from performance anxiety (commonly known as stage fright), then you're missing out on one of the best feelings that entertainers can experience. When you're ready to rid yourself of these demons, this manuscript contains 40 proven ideas that have helped others like you to put aside...

Un effetto di Mentalismo, possibile a distanza (in una video chat o anche solo al telefono), la cui storia si ispira molto liberamente al film "I soliti Sospetti" ed in cui lo spettatore è chiamato a scegliere 5 carte dal mazzo che rappresenteranno gli indiziati per un grosso colpo in banca. Uno solo sarà il vero colpevole, ma nonostante la libera disposizione delle carte ed i vari miscugli di facce contro dorsi, al termine il mentalista riuscirà sempre, nello stupore generale e nonostante non abbia mai visto le carte, ad indovinare:

• in quale posizione si trovi la carta del colpevole, ...

A university professor of mathematics takes on tricks based on math.

From the preface: