Magic & Mentalism: page 444

The mentalist shows cards representing five drinking establishments and their signature drink, such as Martini or Old Fashioned. The cards are placed face up on a table on stage. The mentalist now invites three random spectators to join him on stage and explains they will play the parts of folks embarking on an imaginary pub crawl.

Because nobody knows how wild this night is going to get, each participant will select a fake ID under which they'll do their drinking. Three cards are shown, each bearing a different humorous name, and mixed face down and given to the participants. The mentalist...

4 Brand New Effects. I have not published these effects anywhere.

• Structured Procedure and Setup: Each effect is meticulously detailed with specific setups and methods. Most setups are minimal.
• Audience Management & Psychological Play: The magician's actions, patter, and even the "illogical" elements are designed to manage spectator perception and prevent suspicion.
• Apparent Fairness: Despite the deception, the goal is often to make the trick appear as if "magic was real," minimizing suspicious movements.
• Building Impossibility: Effects are structured to eliminate perceived solutions,...

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Geofencing is a location-based technology that creates a virtual boundary around a real-world geographic area. When a mobile device enters or exits this virtual perimeter, it can trigger automated actions.

Psychic Geofencing is a seemingly similar "psychic tech" which uses 2 minds only and no gadgets. Here the performer tries to fix fences or boundaries to the participant's thoughts while his mind roams around countries and cities of the world. The target is to ensure that the participant's mind is influenced to think of only...

During his lifetime in magic, Ian Adair has written and published more than 270 books, covering all branches of magic. His Encyclopaedia of Children's Magic was a bestseller, as were many of his more recent books on children's entertainment. Ian not only originates each effect and routine, but constructs models, and even makes a point of performing them in front of children of all ages.

Here is another big collection of super effects designed for the kids' show. Quite a number have been exclusive to Ian - now these are yours to practice and slot into your shows.

• Dedication
• Acknowledgements ...

This hard-to-find booklet reveals the methods of psychic mediums and their phony séances.

Originally published in the 1930s, this new, updated edition contains a wealth of added information. Audiences enjoy seeing the psychic entertainer perform effects based on historically accurate settings. If you perform or lecture, you may wish to reveal a few inside secrets of fraudulent mediums by picking and choosing from among the ones detailed by the author. If you do this, your audiences will hang onto your every word.

No matter if you're a psychic yourself, offering services to the general...

The third and final installment of our Jimmy Havilland tribute, from his long-out-of-print lecture notes. A simple, easy-to-execute sequence using four coins and an ungimmicked purse. It resets automatically, has no angle problems or complicated sleights. It actually works itself. Jimmy was known in London as "The Last of the Street Conjurors" and for good reason. We supply this to you as a free download to celebrate our 100th submission on Lybrary.com. Thank you for your patronage.

Cover art by James Humble.

1st edition 2025, video 40s.

A complete act with special effects, tricks, laughs, and surprises.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Ventriloquism, conjuring, shadowgraphy, mimicry, comedy, reciting.

• PART I. VENTRILOQUISM
  • CHAPTER I. The Practical Ventriloquist
    • No New Thing
    • Practice makes Perfect
    • There is Hope for All
    • A Useful Accomplishment
    • How to Begin
  • CHAPTER II. Breathing and Use of Figures
    • Methods of Breathing
    • Vocalisation
    • How to speak without moving the Lips
    • Ventriloquial Figures
    • Estimate of Outlay
    • A Few Practical Hints
  • CHAPTER III. Voice Illusions
    • Near and Distant Voices
    • The Drone
    • The Basis of the "Near" Ventriloquial Voices
    • Different Kinds of "Distant" Voices
    • Voices from Above
    • Voices...

26 installments from Racherbaumer's journal, which are directly or tangentially related to magic, magicians, and the amorphous body called the "magic community".

1. Clarifying "Fusion" Confusion; Modality Dalliance, Tilt Tizzy
2. An Open Letter to Rudy Coby
3. On the Steven's Control; Out of Sorts
4. Don Alan Transcript
5. Copycats; A Footnote Regarding Roger Klause; Secret of the Palmettos; Meeting a Master Mechanic; Setting the Record Straight
6. Deconstructing Harry
8. Diss and Data; A Railing of Idiots
9. Face-Up Triumph Poker Deal; Card Puzzle
11. Copycats
12. In the Interest of Credits; Flustration...

We have all heard of double-facers. They seem odd and dangerous. This eBook provides an in-depth analysis of double-facers (DF) and how they can enhance the success and deception of your routines.

This eBook is a comprehensive guide explaining DF principles, how to safely handle DFs, strategies, and 7 specific magical effects. This is the secret weapon that hides in plain sight. Double-facers are not known to the public. Discover how double-facers combine with double-backers to create miracles.

7 Effects:

• A Monte Effect
• A Mysterious Open Prediction
• A Great Indicator Card
• A Wild...

At last, an ebook dealing with superb routines for the kids' show - using a prop all children's entertainers have - The Changing Bag.

Ian Adair has brought together a complete collection of his tried and tested routines using all sorts of Changing Bags, including Flat Change Bags, Net Changing Bags, Swivel Handle bags, One Handed Changing Bags, plus special models which have been devised solely for certain tricks and routines.

Audience participation type effects - complete routines - original ideas - colourful magic. All designed for the children's entertainer.

• What they say about the...

The Spectator thinks of a card. Only he knows its identity. Cards are mixed together face-up and face-down. Now - in rapid succession - there are three shocking climaxes:

• Instantly, all of the cards turn face-up - with the exception of the thought card. It is the only card still face-down!
• Suddenly, the thought card vanishes and turns into the Hand O' Doom.
• The Spectator reaches into his pocket and finds among some other cards he placed there previously - the missing thought card.

FEATURES

• Entirely mechanical and self-working: requires no skill, no memorization, no sleights. ...

This will seem like an absolute miracle to your audience.

Effect - From a list of over 100 celebrities, 3 participants choose a celebrity each secretly in their minds. Nothing is written down. The first participant chooses some gifts for her chosen celebrity.

And you are able to reveal the celebrity in her mind. The 2nd and 3rd participants also choose gifts for their respective celebrities – but only secretly and silently in their minds. And yet you reveal their respective celebrities.

In a different scenario, some of the participants can either lie to you or tell the truth about...

• Perform the classic card illusion at any moment
• The thread is hidden in the card, not in your body. Have complete freedom of movement with no risk of breaking the thread
• Affix the anchor without having to look at the card

Note that some of the links provided in the PDF are outdated.

1st edition 2010, PDF 17 pages.

• Realiza esta ilusión clásica en cualquier momento!
• El hilo invisible está escondido en la carta, no en tu cuerpo. Tendrás completa libertad de movimiento sin ningún riesgo de reventar el filamento.
• Transfiere el anclaje sin tener que mirar la carta

Adventures, thrills, mysteries, dreams, numerology, astrology, fortune telling by cards, magic you can do.

This is a book Howard Thurston put out to promote himself. It has a lot of photos showing Thurston and his family, memorializing important events and experiences in his career. It also teaches some simple magic tricks. Arthur B. Chase writes in the introduction:

We have all heard of double backers. They seem odd and not very useful. This eBook offers a comprehensive perspective on the power of double backers (DB), and how they can elevate the impact and deception of your routines.

• This secret weapon hides in plain sight
• Double backers are generally not known by the public
• Simplify complex effects using a double backer
• Double lifts are more deceptive and look more natural
• Hands off Forces – The magician never touches the deck! And you can force more than one card
• Seamless Transitions: Utilize the DB to create the illusion that a spectator's...

"Fantastic force, the combination of methods is very fooling." - Kevin Aust

"The best card force I have ever seen." - Alexander Javier

"Beyond perfect, not just perfect." - Tony Bianco

There are many card forces out there. Too many, actually. But, in my opinion, none of them are 'perfect' from an effect standpoint. Some come close - however, I have yet to see one that fully gets there.

From an effect standpoint, what ingredients must a force have in order for it to be considered 'perfect'? I think these 6 ingredients are the answer:

• The magician must never touch the cards...

From a deck of cards, shuffled at will by a spectator, a card is taken at random and scattered in the deck, then found by the spectator himself at the number he thought of!

This is a semi-automatic card effect, in which a spectator freely shuffles a deck. Then he thinks of a number and removes that same number of cards from both the top and bottom of the deck; he memorizes the card now on top of the deck and places all the cards he just removed on top of it, after shuffling them together.

The magician, who had been facing away the whole time, now turns around and, taking the deck, cuts...

Da un mazzo di carte, mescolato a piacere da uno spettatore, una Carta viene presa a caso e dispersa nel mazzo, per poi essere da lui stesso ritrovata al Numero pensato! II titolo, traducibile in italiano con “Improvvisazione Sottosopra di una Carta al Numero”, indica un effetto SEMI-AUTOMATICO con le carte, nel quale uno spettatore mescola liberamente un mazzo di carte. Poi pensa ad un Numero e preleva quel medesimo numero di carte sia da sopra che da sotto il mazzo; memorizza la carta ora in cima al mazzo e vi sovrappone tutte le carte poco prima rimosse, dopo averle mescolate...

Master's ACAAN looks exactly like described below:

You place a pack of cards in full view. The audience decides on a card and names a number. You remove the cards from the box, deal down to that number, and there it is — their card at their number. But wait, that's not the end...

You reveal that it had to be that exact card at that exact number — any change would have resulted in complete failure. Because, apart from their card at their number, all the other cards are blank.

No switches. No sleights. Just one pack of 52 cards.

1st edition 2025, PDF 5 pages, video 6:18.

This ebook was previously only available as part of Karma Deck Pro. But it is now being released separately for the first time. You, of course, need to own the Karma Deck ebook before you get this ebook.

There are a total of 13 routines explained here. For some of the routines, the performer need not even know the Karma Deck, it is enough if the deck is stacked in that order.

1. Birthday Surprise
2. Double Deck Drama
3. Cross Weight
4. Contact Card Reading
5. Telepathic Cross Weight
6. Scuba Card Diving
7. Mini Envelope Giant Routine
8. Untossed Out Divination
9. Wrong Memory...

Excerpt from the preface:

• Preface
• An Original Method of Working the Postal Order and Nest of Boxes
• Thought Reading Outdone
• The Baffler Rising Card Trick
• The Novel Coin Stand
• Le Roy's "Mephisto" Burning Dress
• The "Beat All" Candle...

You show one regular card and three cards with a hole in the center. The three cards with a hole are blank. But once you combine them with the regular card the holes vanish and the faces are not blank anymore.

1st edition 2025, video 2:53.