Magic & Mentalism: page 446

At one point, a long time ago, Epes Winthrop Sargent was a person of interest in the hunt for S. W. Erdnase. The primary reason for this was his initials E. W. S., which, when reversed, give S. W. E., the same initials as the author of The Expert at the Card Table. He also had connections to magic (writing about Saram R. Ellison, an important collector and personality in the world of conjuring, and The Sphinx) as well as writing an article about a cardsharp.

However, a forensic linguistic analysis quickly revealed that Epes Sargent does not write like...

Dr. Saram R. Ellison was a Canadian, born in 1852, but he lived most of his life in New York. He was one of the co-founders of the Society of American Magicians and had the member number 1. He was an avid collector of magic books and apparatus. At one time, he had the most important magic book library, which he donated to the New York Public Library.

This ebook is a biographical sketch of Dr. Ellison and his magic collection, including some photos and letters he received from prominent magicians.

1st edition 1915, PDF 13 pages.

Magic tricks, bar bets, gambling scams, cons, puzzles, and gotcha's with playing cards, dice, coins, rope, dominoes, and humor.

"Bob's brilliance, deviousness, and creativity are perfectly balanced by his wacky sense of humor .... With The Bammo Flim-Flam Conglomeration you get everything you expect from a Bob Farmer book: an off-the-wall sense of humor, laser-sharp intelligence, clear and concise writing, and a mountain of intriguing and entertaining scams, cons, betchas, and tricks - enough to amuse any magic enthusiast of any skill level, whether or not they have larceny in their heart."...

About the Sweat Palm.

The basic idea goes back to Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft. Jon traces the principle, as much as possible, through the conjuring literature.

1st edition 2025, PDF 10 pages.

Impromptu rising card trick.

No setup is required, no gimmicks, and no difficult sleights. With just a regular deck, the spectator's selection rises from the pack. The effect is direct and fast. For the full effect, see the performance video.

1st edition 2025, video 3:32

Effect: Spectator thinks of any card, no force. They can change their mind. Without asking any questions or looking at the faces of the cards, the magician names the card. This is about as close to pure mind reading as it gets.

Description:

If you could truly read a spectator's mind, you would have them think of a card and then reveal it without asking any questions. But there's one more important element: verification of the card the spectator is thinking of. We all know there are spectators who want the magician to fail. They might lie about which card they were thinking of.

You...

The Ian Adair lecture for Kidology.

• Welcome....
• Slippery Silks
• Caterpillar Ropes
• Bags..Bags..Bags
• Rabbit Changing Bag
• Wizard Bag
• Tissle-Tassel
• Silks/Bag Sequence
• My Girlfriend -Magic Painting
• Paper Tears For Kid Shows
• Wizard Paper Tear
• 1000 Birthday Paper Tear
• Silk And Ball Opener
• Tip-Top Wand
• Fun With The Snowy Mouse
• Scamp The Dog
• Harry's Wand
• Using A Rabbit In The Show
• Routine For Balloon Box
• Peter's Bunny Bank
• Backdrops..Back-Cloth Displays
• Tips...Hints...Advice For Children's Entertainers
• Wally The Wizard

PDF 14 pages.

Looking for commercial, practical, and unforgettable material you'll actually use? Four Real Workers delivers exactly that - four powerful, practical, audience-tested routines that belong in every magician's arsenal.

Inside you'll discover:

MYSTERIOUS BOILING WATER - a startling impromptu effect with nothing more than a glass, water, a handkerchief, and a rubber band. The water boils mysteriously.

ULTIMATE IMPROMPTU DIE DIVINATION - a clean, fooling way to divine any thought-of number on a die.

INTO THIN AIR - a brilliant, overlooked handling of Theodore DeLand's Phantom Card...

or a full explanation of the principal and most interesting performances of legerdemain as exhibited by Monsieur Adrian and other performers, which of late has excited so much curiosity in the public mind, in Philadelphia and other cities of the United States and elsewhere. With amusing dialogues and original and true Yankee stories.

• GENERAL DIRECTIONS TO BE OBSERVED BY THE PERFORMER
• PREFACE
• EXPERIMENT NO. 1. To make a person disappear in a sack.
• EXPERIMENT NO. 2. To produce oranges or apples apparently in an empty box.
• EXPERIMENT NO. 3. To change a glove into sugar plums.
• EXPERIMENT...

William Manning was the playfellow of Robert-Houdin's two sons, Emile and Eugene, and learned during those visits a lot about the family, conjuring, and Robert-Houdin himself. These are his recollections.

1st edition 1890, PDF 23 pages.

without apparatus, preparation or sleight of hand.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Effect: Spectator 1 shuffles the deck, takes it under the table and looks at any card. Spectator 2 just thinks of a card. The magician reveals the name of spectator #1 card and the name and position in the deck of spectator #2 thought of card!

This is the strongest effect I have ever created! An effect that dives deep into the timeless mystery of chance versus choice.

This routine combines two classic principles of magic into an amazing new weapon: a third principle that can be used with other card effects. And just when you think it can’t go further, a brand-new principle is introduced—pushing...

Stop digging through countless books looking for practical routines for your shows! Discover fourteen powerful routines designed to captivate any platform or parlor audience. Blending classic principles with clever innovations, this collection offers practical, audience-tested magic that is both visual and memorable. Whether you're a professional seeking new material or a student of magic eager to grow, these routines provide everything you need to turn simple tricks into unforgettable performances.

1. THREE CARDS TO POCKET
The magician shows three cards that vanish from his hand, one...

This is my control system, which allows you to cleanly push the card into the deck with no visible break, and still maintain control.

The system can control the card to four common positions: the top, the bottom, the second from the top, and the second from the bottom. It can be applied flexibly in many card routines, taking your sleight of hand to the next level. For the detailed controls, please watch the performance video.

1st edition 2025, video 4:11

Ace Assembly routines have been with us for decades. Some originate from the best brains in magic, others too numerous to mention, are utterly forgettable - lengthy, complex routines overburdened with ham-fisted false counts, lugubrious palming techniques, endless Double Lifts and quaint presentation ideas.

If you are heartily sick of these approaches, here is a routine that will grab your attention.

Aces With Artistry is just what its title implies, an Ace Assembly that stands up there with the best of them. Visually captivating, AWA owes its pedigree to Ed Marlo and is based...

A new card magic effect, incredibly automatic and hands-off, in which the spectator himself, after choosing any card from the deck, will start an impressive "A.C.A.A.N."!

The title refers to a new Automatic Card Magic effect that is completely hands-off, where the magician, once he has introduced, shuffled, and quickly shown the deck, will have it cut and leave it entirely in the hands of a spectator, until the end of the experiment, without ever touching the cards again! It is an "Any Card At Any Number" effect type where, thanks to the introduction of a brand new stack, almost impossible...

Un nuovo effetto di Cartomagia, incredibilmente Automatico e Hands-Off, in cui sarà lo spettatore stesso, dopo aver scelto una carta qualsiasi dal mazzo,a dare inizio ad un impressionante "A.C.A.A.N."!

II titolo, traducibile in italiano con "Giocare a Carta al Numeri con il Re dei Preordinamenti Nascosti" indica un nuovo effetto di Cartomagia Automatica e completamente Hands-Off, dove il prestigiatore, una volta introdotto, mescolato e mostrato velocemente il mazzo, lo farà tagliare e lascerà del tutto nelle mani di uno spettatore fino al termine dell'esperimento, senza mai più toccare...

This intro price will go up to $12 from October 13, 2025

This series of Suit Ordering Systems is probably the world's first 'super store' for ordering suits. The main purpose of these various Suit Ordering Systems is to create a random sequence of suits while retaining a secret pattern visible only to the performer. The applicability of these SOS methods is for various stacks like memorized, algorithmic, mnemonic or any other type of stacked decks.

In this SOS Volume 5, a new innovative concept of Position Pair Suits is used to create a random suit sequence instead of the obvious red/black...

A legendary periodical now for the first time available in digital form. The digital edition is a Lybrary.com exclusive. If you see it offered anywhere else, you know it is a pirated edition, most likely far inferior in quality and completeness.

Magick started on July 17th, 1970, and ceased publication on November 12th, 1993. It spans 23 years, 496 issues in 19 volumes. More than 1400 effects from several hundred of the best minds in mentalism, on more than 2400 pages. The list of contributors is staggering. Below is just a small sampling from the several hundred contributors. You will find...

Each volume of Magick comes with its own volume index. This index is the compilation of all these indices into one combined index. But it is not just the index you are getting here. You will learn a lot about Bascom Jones through various articles by people who knew him. Included is also a bonus section with several routines that could have appeared in Magick.

• Preface and Acknowledgments / Andrew Pinard
• Bascom Jones: 1924-1994 / Robert Bluemle
• Untitled / Max Maven
• Center Axis / Barrie Richardson
• Wordsmith & Warrior / Lee Earle
• Spinning Straw / Richard...

Joe White gives you the making, handling and routine for "Astraloon," a beautiful floating balloon in which the balloon seemingly floats freely in the air. Tom Harris explains his Eggs and Balloon trick which he has shown on many occasions at shows and conventions in this country and his native England. George Johnstone gives his version of this trick. Tommy Windsor has a series of fine ideas with various kinds of balloons, used during his years of professional work. And Gen Grant permits us to include his dandy "Pin Cushion Balloon," which permits you to prepare your own. (Not the same trick...

Containing anecdotes, explanation of tricks and a sketch of the life of Alexander Herrmann.

• To The Reader
• The Art Of Magic
• Healing By Words
• Hands
• Talismans
• Aeromancy
• Alectryomancy
• Aleuromancy
• Alomancy
• Anthropomancy
• Apantomancy
• Arithmomancy
• Astrology (Judicial)
• Axinomancy
• Belomancy
• Botamancy
• Capnomancy
• Cartomancy
• Catoptromancy
• Cephalomancy
• Ceromancy
• Chiromancy
• Cleromancy
• Cledonism
• Coscinomancy
• Dactylomancy
• Extispicium
• Gastromancy
• Geomancy
• Hydromancy
• Onomancy
• Oneirocritics
• Onychomancy
• Ornithomancy
• Pyromancy
• Psychomancy, Or Sciomancy
• Rhabdomancy
• Sibyls ...

You feign a centre deal with basic moves. You openly cut the four Kings into the deck and deal them to the spectator. But the four cards you get are the four Aces. Easy and magical! You get a bonus tutorial of Imperial Bicycles.

1st edition 2025, video 10:05.

Snow Drift Deck: A find the Lady type of effect using a deck of 52 blank cards and a Queen.

Origami Card Discovery: A strip of folded paper displays a prediction of a card which a spectator will select. It's wrong! The image magically changes, and the prediction is 100% correct.

Simplicity Card to Wallet: No special wallets used, yet the same effect is accomplished using a very simple method.

Peek-A-Boo!: A joker card, which has a corner missing, is used to locate a chosen card within a shuffled deck.

Split Down the Middle: Ian's version of the classic 'Split Deck'. The deck has...