Magic & Mentalism: page 416

The Sync Book Test is a completely impromptu routine that can be performed anytime, anywhere, using two borrowed books. It is built around a strong, consistent presentation that turns the effect into a genuine test of how in sync the mentalist and participant are. The routine centers on a coincidence between a number and a word, but it sets the stage for a compelling telepathy demonstration - framed as yet another uncanny coincidence: the mentalist is silently thinking of the exact word randomly chosen by the participant.

Here's how the effect appears to the audience:

A participant freely...

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The Automatic Placement Principle, named and popularized by Ed Marlo, is a mathematical marvel that places the spectator's card into a known position in the deck, without sleights. I've created two amazing enhancements: First, the spectator shuffles the majority of the deck after looking at his card. Unbelievably, you still know the card's position without touching the deck! Second, you're now privy to the card's identity as well as its location. Both methods are presented as a glimpse into gambling strategies. These enhancements have many potentials for your card magic.

1st edition 2024, PDF 19...

Excerpt from the introduction:

• A Magical Mish-Mosh (And Other Tricky Trivia)
• The Magic Scroll
• Milk To Dove
• Dagger Dime
• My Six Card Repeat
• Two Coins And A Wineglass
• The Peripatetic...

Excerpt from the introduction:

Memfinity Deck: Memorising the Infinity Deck is a companion work for the Infinity Deck released by Craig Petty and Murphy's Magic. In this ebook, you will learn how to memorise every photograph in the deck using mnemonics. This is an easy process which takes just a couple of hours. Once you know this system, you can use it to learn most any list of objects. After you learn the photographs, you will learn some effects to do with your new skill - used in this way, it is as close to real mind reading as you can perform. Special thanks to Richard Osterlind for allowing the use of parts of his...

The title reads Applause-able Magic, and that is exactly what this ebook contains. Magic that will bring you the APPLAUSE you desire and magic that is presentable.

The author writes from experience, both as a childrens' entertainer and as a variety act. We leave you to pick out the gems from the dust, but, remember that it is gold dust, which is always valuable - somewhere - sometime.

• Foreword
• Passe Passe Tins
• Silk Shirt
• Silk Frock
• I've Got Worms
• The Card Mixer
• Magic Song Book
• Colour Changing Reels
• Sally The Silkworm
• Comedy Camera Capers
• Egg And Lemon
• Ha-Ha Hat
• High Hands ...

A bunch of cards are removed from the deck after a few shuffles. The participant looks at them and freely selects one. All the cards are then mixed in a messy pile and "wash-shuffled".

Under these impossible conditions, you reach into the pile and dig out a single card: the mate of the participant's card.

• No memory work
• No marked cards
• An alternative ending is explained

1st edition 2024, PDF 7 pages.

• Games (Pass the Beads; The Magician Game; Sweet Production)
• Toadstool And Ragdoll
• Rabbit Production
• Happy Birthday / Happy Christmas Box
• Routine For Blind Date
• The Magic Christmas Tree
• Prize Spell
• Grandma's Knitting Bag
• The Space Rocket Trick

1st edition ~1988, PDF 10 pages.

A new Mentalism effect, as impromptu as it is inexplicable!

This is a simple Mentalism effect, incomprehensible to the audience and executable on virtually any occasion, as it uses eight simple cards that can be drawn from any deck. The Mentalist, with his back turned or blindfolded without any make-up, asks a spectator to think of any card and draw it from the deck, together with any seven other cards with which it will be shuffled by herself. She will divide the pack between her own hands, holding in each four face down cards.

At her pleasure, she will turn face up of the two bundles...

Un nuovo effetto di Mentalismo, tanto impromptu quanto inspiegabile!

Si tratta di un effetto di Mentalismo di semplice esecuzione, incomprensibile per il pubblico ed eseguibile praticamente in ogni occasione, in quanto utilizza otto semplici carte che possono essere estratte da un qualsiasi mazzo. Il Mentalista, di spalle o bendato senza alcun trucco, chiede ad una spettatrice di pensare ad una carta qualsiasi e di estrarla dal mazzo, unitamente ad altre sette carte qualsiasi con le quali verrà da lei stessa mescolata. Dividerà il mazzetto tra le proprie mani, tenendo in ognuna quattro...

Al Leech wrote this classic text on the presentation of magic in 1948, and it has been essential reading ever since. The ebook goes into depth on the application of psychology to magic, misdirection, how best to fool people, how to make them like you, and similar topics.

"The many classics on the subject that predated it were ambitious and well intended but full of air and nonsense. But this modest thing pointed the way. Its historical importance would be reason enough to put it out. But in its modest little way, it has never been bettered. It remains fresh and valuable today." - Michael Landes

Tricks with silks, ropes, rings, and balls.

If you like to work with invisible thread you will find interesting material here.

• Effect with Two Silks
• Two Ring Effects
• Silk, Paper Bag, and Ring
• With Two Rings
• Another Effect with Two Rings
• Ball and Glass
• Ball Production with a Silk
• Sleeving Principle
• Ball Color Change

1st edition ~1960; PDF 14 pages.

This effect has sparked strong reactions. Ideal for magicians who enjoy improvisational magic, with the spectator at the core, this act hinges on your acting skills. It's a perfect tool to enhance your performance abilities. There is no setup, easy to do, and it can be repeated immediately with different results.

Two versions: One with a marked deck and one with a very sneaky force you probably do not know.

1st edition 2024, PDF 7 pages.

Das Gläserne Herz und andere Patente.

Ludwig Hanemann - Punx (27. Oktober 1907 - 11. Februar 1996) gehört zweifelsfrei zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Zauberkünstlern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Auch wenn er in der Öffentlichkeit vielleicht nicht so bekannt war wie manch anderer Kollege, hat er mit seiner Art, die Zauberkunst zu zelebrieren, generationsübergreifend Impulse für Kollegen gegeben. Das bekannteste Kunststück aus seinem Programm ist zweifelsfrei das "Gläserne Herz".

Nach jahrelangen Recherchen und der Sichtung von bisher teilweise unbekannten Dokumenten rekonstruiert...

This periodical ran for 5 volumes and 60 numbers, from September 1905 to August 1910. With volume 1 number 9, it became the official organ of the Magic Circle. For the last two numbers in 1910, P. T. Selbit handed the editorship to George Munro. It was succeeded by the Magic Wand.

This PDF holds an index for the first four volumes each. The indices are grouped into the following categories (not all categories appear in all volume indices):

• Articles
• Ball Tricks
• Card Tricks
• Coin Tricks
• Correspondence
• Conversations
• Current Programmes
• Flower Tricks
• Gossip
• Handkerchief Tricks
• Hat Tricks
• Illustrations
• Jokes
• Magic Circle
• Obituary
• Our Monthly Telephone
• Poetry
• Popular Patter
• Portraits
• Practical Magic
• Programmes
• Recollections of Hartz
• Sketches
• Thimble Tricks
• Tricks

Contents:

1. The Wizard – Volume I – September, 1905 – August, 1906
2. Index ...

For the last two numbers, George Munro took over the editorship from P. T. Selbit.

773. The Wizard - Volume V, Number 49 - September, 1909 - 16 pages
773. Cover - Imro Fox
774. Ornum's advertisement
775. Notices
775. Gossip
776. Advertisements
777. A Protean Wand
777. The Magic Circle
777. Advertisements
778. Conjuring a Cake
     • Two New Methods of Performing a Popular Problem
       • The Preparation of the Cake
       • The Culinary Operation
       • The Cutting Part
       • Another Method
       • The Bran Box Again
       • A Fiery Dish
779. Nikola Breaks Out Again
     • A Half-Minute Perplexity Pickle
       • The Problem to...

581. The Wizard - Volume IV, Number 37 - September, 1908 - 16 pages
581. Cover - Chung Ling Soo
582. Hambley's advertisement
583. Notices
583. Gossip
585. Indian Conjurers at the Franco-British Exhibition
586. Correspondence
586. British Magical Society
     • Ideas Competition
587. Recollections of Hartz by Professor Hoffmann - continued
     • The Automatic Rising Cards
588. Marionettes - continued
     • The Figures
       • Chapter V - A Living Skeleton and the Donkey and Cart
589. The Northern Magical Society
590. The Master Mystery - A Puzzling Performance
     • Amusing Opinions
591. Advertisements

597. The Wizard...

389. The Wizard - Volume III, Number 25 - September, 1907 - 16 pages
389. Cover - Leon Herrmann
390. Hambley's advertisement
391. Notices
391. Gossip
392. The Carl Lebert Fund
393. Magic with Water Vases - J. W. Dewhurst
393. Thought Reading - New Book Advertisement
394. Recollections of Hartz by Professor Hoffmann - continued
     • The Mysterious Addition
395. The Magic Circle
395. Death of Bruno Walters
396. More Confetti Magic - N. P. Alvaro, India
397. The Egg and Confetti Trick - Another Way of Working It - J. W. Dewhurst
397. Correspondence
     • Derivations and meaning of Magical Expressions - humor
398. A Man of Magic - John Henry...

197. The Wizard - Volume II, Number 13 - September, 1906 - 16 pages
197. Cover - Le Roy, Talma and Bosco
198. Hambley's advertisement
199. Notices
199. Gossip
200. The Magic Circle
201. Oldest Conjurer in England - A Chat with Prof. Devono
201. Correspondence
202. Hartz and His Hat Trick - Professor Hoffmann - continued
204. The Melting Billiard Ball - effect
204. "A Black Art Handkerchief Producer" in the last issue was from Fullam McGlade
205. A Lively Drum - E. Cooper
205. To Tear a Pack of Cards in Two
206. Conjuring Tricks - by a Grown-up Infant
207. re: Tipping Stage Hands
207. A Sympathetic Ode - poem
207. re: Chapeaugraphy
208. The Instantaneous Production...

1. The Wizard - Volume I, Number 1 - September, 1905 - 16 pages
1. Cover - Poster for Maskelyne & Devant's Mascot Moth
2. Hambley's advertisement
3. Notices
3. Introduction
3. Gossip
6. Maskelyne & Devant's Mysteries
7. A Card and Egg Trick
7. Editorial
8. Practical Prestigiation
   • The Incubator Canister
10. note - Maskelyne & Devant in the "Topical Times"
10. The Magic Circle
11. Professional Announcements
12. In London City
12. Correspondence
13. Scissors and Paste
13. The Funny Electric Pencil - Ornum's advertisement
14. Conjuring - Past and Present
14. Pars. From the Provinces
14. A North British Magician's Wooing - humor
15. Harry...

"I've been performing this over the past few days and more than one spectator has been convinced that I possess ESP. It's that strong." - Tommaso Guglielmi

"Another phenomenal effect by the Unnamed Magician. If you like thought of card tricks or coincidence tricks, this is a steal for the price." - Tony Bianco

A truly remarkable coincidence. A deck is shuffled and divided into two halves. The spectator thinks of a card in their half, the magician thinks of a card in his half, and when the two halves are simultaneously dealt through, the two cards turn up at the same time!...

Undercover Jokers is a totally improvised and self-working card-magic effect that can be performed with a borrowed and freely shuffled deck, with the addition of the two Jokers. It tells the action of two investigative jokers acting undercover in search of a particular pair of cards, two figures representing two dangerous fugitives. The last sighting takes place inside a small, mysterious, and crowded club, the Card Club, popular with magicians and gamblers. After identifying and capturing the first criminal among the many people in the club, the two jokers, thanks to their intuition gained...