Magic & Mentalism: page 421

(Note: The The Bill bill gimmick is not manufactured. This manuscript provides detailed instructions to help you build the device for about $30 in about three hours.)

Effect: Using mysterious powers, the performer folds a dollar bill but unfolds a hundred. While musing on the legal status of the now larger bill, the performer is suddenly confronted by tiny police officers in a cop car! Well, not really, but there are flashing blue, red, and white police lights coming from somewhere. What happens after the police show up is your business, although I would recommend exercising good taste...

A person thinks of any card, mixes the deck any way they want, squares it up so that the holes are all the way through, cuts to any question card, answers the question and performs the action. In no more than 6 actions, the spectator themselves finds the playing card they thought of.

The deck works in such a way that the answers to the questions will lead the person to their thought-of card in 100% of the cases. This is hellishly cool.

And here's why it's cool:

• No memorization whatsoever, i.e. it's a completely self-working trick.
• No repeats of questions of the same kind.
• The playing...

Three cards are put face down on the table. Put three blank cards over the first card and the blank cards all change into the same card they were put on. Repeat this with the other two cards. The cards always magically change their faces. At the end, the faces change again and the entire deck is blank.

1st edition 2024, video 5:09.

Be more confident when using Equivoque.

This eBook provides you with a comprehensive understanding of Equivoque, enabling you to use it effectively and confidently in your routines. It is filled with a variety of graphics, illustrations, and examples to make the process of learning how to use " Equivoque" as easy and enjoyable as possible for you.

You will learn:

• What two things you must do when using Equivoque?
• One thing you should never do when performing Equivoque
• Master the fundamentals: Thoroughly understand the basic principles of Equivoque, including its structure and psychological...

Here's an incredibly direct book test that not only will amaze your audience, it will stun magicians, as well. There have been book tests with external paraphernalia and book tests with specially printed books... but never one so diabolically bold, clever, simple and direct as this.

The spectator simply opens a book, notes a word, and you can reveal it immediately or later. No involved mathematics. No stooge. None of the old thrusting of a card into the pages and all of that. No force, never the same word twice, and the book is an ordinary paperback that you can buy at any drug store. Or...

Translation of La Machine à Voler, a French classic revealing the legal circumvention of gambling laws to establish crooked gambling clubs and casinos. It also exposes cheating methods for baccarat.

This work is primarily interesting to the magician due to its exposure of cheating methods at baccarat including sleight-of-hand techniques. These are explained in detail including photos.

Excerpt from the preface:

Étude sur les escroqueries commises dans les cercles & les Casinos.

Extrait de la préface:

Walkabout mentalism is an extremely pleasant way to make a part- or full-time living. It gives you the opportunity to entertain people with mentalism, and anything else you wish to share with others. In this ebook, Richard Webster covers his unique way of doing walkabout and close-up mentalism. When he approaches a group, he offers them a lucky charm, a quick reading, a psychic experiment, a magic trick, or a joke. This ebook covers the Real Thing, 14 mentalism effects, five mnemonics and memory effects, jokes, and how to get started in readings. There's even a brief section on standup performing,...

This is a digital edition of the first edition of this book. It has wonderful photos. The later edition in three volumes published by Magic Inc. replaced the photos with line drawings. The book captures Buckingham's manipulation moves and routines for billiard balls, coins, and thimbles. It has practical advice from a successful pro and is perhaps the finest book on this subject ever published.

Here is the text from the inside flaps of the first edition:

"Scott's work reminds me of the magic I loved from late masters like Tommy Wonder or Fred Kaps and I sometimes found the scripts possibly superior to such masters." - Etienne Lorenceau

"I am also a big fan of your scripts." - Floyd Collins

Excerpt from the introduction:

Just print and perform.

In my 50+ years as a magic creator, author, and dealer, I have lived through more than a couple of operational changes. When I started my magician's service, freight and distribution were not a consideration, and our initial trade terms in this country were a minimum order of the then equivalent of 80 US cents, (Rs.25.00) post-free. We also sent a couple of parcels every day around the world, and our business grew over the years to a range of over 2000 items and over $1 million of sales (to the end customer) every year.

Things kept changing, with the freight galloping...

An impromptu mentalism effect involving a merely thought card, chosen from aces and figures, and in which, despite the possibility of the spectator lying, the real truth will always be revealed by the Magician.

Truth Bites is a mentalism effect but also a packet trick always ready when needed, where a spectator thinks of a card that could be one of the four aces or any figure in the deck (Jacks, Queens or Kings). She will also secretly choose a role to play: Knight, who will always tell the truth, or rogue who, on the contrary, will lie all the time.

The illusionist, after quickly "Zig...

Un effetto impromptu di Mentalismo che comporta una carta solamente PENSATA, scelta tra Assi e Figure, e in cui, nonostante la possibilità per lo spettatore di Mentire, la Verità in tutte le sue forme verrà sempre rivelata dal Mago!

”Truth Bites” è un effetto di Mentalismo ma anche un Packet Trick sempre pronto all’occorrenza, dove una spettatrice pensa ad una carta che potrà essere uno dei quattro Assi oppure una qualsiasi Figura del mazzo. Si sceglierà segretamente anche un ruolo da ricoprire: Cavaliere, che dirà sempre la Verità, oppure Furfante che, al contrario, mentirà...

You show four cards with blue dots and another four cards with red dots. Then you stick a blue dot over a red dot card and a red dot over a blue dot card. After 5 seconds the dot color of the remaining three cards in each packet has changed, too.

You continue to mix the cards but they always separate into packs of the same color, like oil and water separate. In the final sequence, you remove the two dots you stuck on in the first phase and the colors change again magically.

1st edition 2024, video 5:46.

Karl Germain was a dynamic stage performer whose baffling feats of wizardry have come to life again in this must-have ebook.

Several of Germain's stage, club and close-up mysteries are revealed in this well-illustrated text, allowing them to be appreciated by a new generation of magicians.

Cramer explains many of Germain's feats, including Casadega Propaganda (a small Spirit Cabinet), several large Spirit Cabinets for stage performances, various types of Spirit Slate-Writing, a Spirit Seance In a Lighted Room, the Germain Handkerchief Color Change (the finest ever invented), Miss Confetti...

The spectator shuffles their own deck, cuts it twice (similar to the cut deeper force only done by the spectator), and looks at the first face-down card. The magician knows the spectator's card without ever touching the deck. The cards are normal, and the magician can be out of the room when the spectator views their card.

The method works 100% of the time and is simple to perform.

Key Points:

• No reset
• No math
• No setup
• No sleight of hand.
• Not too procedural.
• No electronics
• Magician never touches the cards
• Four variations

1st edition 2024, PDF 6 pages.

This ebook has been written for those people who want to learn the art of putting on hypnotic demonstrations for public entertainment. Whether you are a hypnotherapist, stage entertainer, or public speaker wishing to expand your activities, this ebook will give you the instruction you need. Professional magicians in particular seem to be drawn to this fascinating way of entertaining people.

There is nothing more hilarious than a good demonstration of stage hypnosis. We would also add that there is nothing more dramatic and mysterious than this type of entertainment. A good hypnotism show...

"Oh Hal, this course is amazing. I've been a magician for 24 years and just like you, I thought there was a void in beginner Sanada training. You have very nice handling and down to earth teaching." - Nick Williams

"This (Sanada) training is very good. I highly recommend it. A great starting point and loaded with good information. My favorite tricks you teach are the wormhole and faux hypnosis routines! Very well done and I love your thinking outside the box." - Matt Hilton

The Sanada Gimmick is an amazingly magical tool. And folks, it's available at your magic shop for well under...

For over a decade, Steve Pellegrino has created strong magic and mentalism routines that have been released to the market. Professional magicians and mentalists have added many of those routines to their repertoires. Until now, these manuscripts have been unavailable anywhere.

Collected Secrets is a 455-page collection that combines Steve's previously released manuscripts into one large volume. It features 36 effects, including 5 previously unreleased routines.

Divided into three chapters, Cards, Mentalism & General Magic, here is what is included:

• Cards
  • Your Card!
  • Take It Further...

Six new professional routines that will make anyone believe you are genuinely psychic.

"This is a great collection of 'test conditions' mentalism that will enable you to build a reputation as the real deal. Simple, direct and elegant methods that will allow you to focus on making your presentations as amazing as possible. Jose shares one of his pet secrets in 'Hearing Thoughts' that I especially liked, it's a gem of a method and could transform the speed at which you gain your secret knowledge. Excellent thinking!" - Marc Paul

"A perfect compilation for all your Mentalism needs." - Marc Salem ...

"Your stuff is always a fun read. I absolutely love Strangely Sympathetic. Your magic is very strong and not hard to do. It's what the doctor ordered." - John Luka

This is a feature showpiece for professional stand-up performances that you'll want to add to your show right away. Here are some features of the routine:

• It is exceptionally easy to do and requires zero sleight-of-hand.
• It "packs small, plays big."
• It is foolproof. There is nothing that can go sideways on you in the fire of real-world performance.
• The procedure looks extremely fair. There are no false moves and there...

An always-ready Any-Card-At-Any-Number effect, with a borrowed deck of cards that will never be touched by the magician and will leave everyone amazed.

This is an Impromptu "Any Card At Any Number" card magic effect that the illusionist is always able to perform, even with an incomplete and borrowed deck, and the most incredible thing is that he will never touch the deck of cards but will simply give all the instructions to the spectator.

After freely shuffling a deck and secretly taking a small group of cards from the center, so that the magician does not even know how many cards it...

Un effetto di Carta al Numero sempre pronto,con un mazzo di carte preso a prestito che non verrà mai toccato dal Mago e lascerà tutti quanti di stucco!

Quelle che vedrete è uno strabiliante effetto “Any Card At Any Number” che l’illusionista è sempre in grado di eseguire, anche con un mazzo incompleto e preso a prestito, e la cosa più incredibile è che egli non toccherà mai il mazzo di carte ma si limiterà a fornire tutte le istruzioni allo spettatore!

Dopo aver mescolato liberamente un mazzo di carte e prelevatone segretamente un piccolo gruppetto di carte dal centro,...

You show two packets of four cards each. One has red dots on the faces and red backs. The other one has blue dots on the faces and blue backs. You repeatedly interleave them but they always separate.

1st edition 2024, video 6:25.