Magic & Mentalism

"This is what levitation should look like. Magic that happens in mid-air." - Patrick Kun

"This looks like real magic." - Takumi Takahashi

Do you want to float matches, rings, and credit cards in midair? Right in front of your spectators? Of course, you do! This video download will teach you how. Just watch the video above and tell me your eye didn't pop out.

From Chile, South America, returns Patricio Terán with his great illusions, this time focusing on levitation in a compilation of 8 ideas that you can incorporate and surprise in your routines.

"Patricio Terán has very creative...

A treasury of practical miracles, rare magic lore, and historical oddities

Beginning in 1999 and into the early 2000s, I managed The Learned Pig Project website, the Internet's first and most important online repository of classic magic books and documents, visited by thousands of magicians around the globe. Parallel to the website, I published an email eZine—TLP Magic eZine—which featured tons of interesting, practical, and highly creative material.

In 2003, I selected the best articles, routines, and essays from those back issues and compiled them into a single volume. Now, you can...

Several big names in magic reveal their favorite tricks in this unique book.

Features effects by Bill Neff - Al Baker - Stewart Judah - Tom Bowyer - Ellis Stanyon - Al Saal - Howard Albright - Art Brandon - Herbert Hicks - Jake Stafford - Lionel Walker - Art Monroe - and Frank Lane.

The magic of each artist is described as if you are seeing it performed on stage, with Frank Lane acting as your master of ceremonies.

Then, each performer explains how their trick was accomplished, just as if you'd been invited to a lecture at a...

Understand human attention, plus a selection of tricks.

This book has a most wonderful first part with the best summary of attention mechanisms I am aware of in any magic book. A better understanding of these human attention mechanisms allows one to become a more effective magician by clarifying how attention, misdirection, and memory work. Portions of these are covered by other authors, such as Juan Tamariz, but here you get a very nice and complete summary.

Pavel Vošahlík was a friend of Lubor Fiedler, a like-minded creative magician.

The trick section includes...

A collection of Dr. Braude's favorite contributions to various magic magazines through the years. Subtle card magic and other miscellaneous magic that you will enjoy.

Table of Contents

• Introduction by Bruce Elliott
• Foreword
• Super Optical Illusion
• Way "Out Of This World"
• Magnetic Field
• Transmogrification
• Telekinetic Card
• Reversal Of One Or More Bottom Cards
• Numbers Game
• Compulsion
• Sight Unseen
• Do As I Do With One Deck
• "I Am Thinking Of A Card"
• Its The Humidity
• Tactile Spell
• Brain Twister
• Treats (Bits And Pieces)
  • Sensitive Finger Tips
  • Ring-O-Leveo
  • Idea For...

Jack Le Dair had a polished, professional presentation, an ideal front-cloth act, each trick used a carefully conceived gem of magic.

This material originally appeared serialised in Abra.

Table of Contents

• Publisher's Foreword
• Introduction
• Foreword
• CHAPTER ONE Cigarette Making
• CHAPTER TWO Oscar The Duck
• CHAPTER THREE The Colour Handkerchief Change
• CHAPTER FOUR The (Stodare) Egg And Handkerchief Trick
• CHAPTER FIVE The Three Cards And Celebrity Trick
• CHAPTER SIX Two Proven Winners
  • Another Way Of Finding A Missing Watch
  • The Vanishing Violin Bow
• CHAPTER SEVEN A Topical Torn...

The last volume in the series.

Table of Contents

• Et Cetera
  • By Way Of Introduction / Eric C. Lewis
  • Pyramid Power / Eric C. Lewis
  • Those Ridiculous Roman Numerals / Eric C. Lewis
  • Conventional Conjuring / De Vega
  • 50 Workshop Ideas / Thayer
  • Modern Levitations / U. F. Grant
  • Artagraphs / Joe Ovette
  • These Card Tricks / Will De Seive
  • Linking Ring Routine / L.L. Ireland
  • Master Mysteries of 1933 / H. Adrian Smith
  • An Amazing Rope Release
  • Original Escape Ideas / Charles Ruben
  • The Crystal Clear Coin Vanish / Blake Maxam
  • Gambler's Quartet / Jack Yates
  • The Lucky Key / Gerald Kosky
  • 20th...

Are you ready to stop collecting theoretical magic and start performing routines that actually build your reputation? Five Star Routines is a masterclass in high-impact parlor and stage magic, packed with battle-tested material designed for real-world performers. Created by a master with decades of stage experience, this collection strips away unnecessary complexity and delivers five complete, commercially proven routines that command attention, generate roaring applause, and leave your audiences absolutely spellbound.

Inside this book, you won't find table-bound pipe dreams; you get practical,...

Table of Contents

• The Histed Paddles / Louis Histed
• Polypaddle
• Traffic Paddle
• Auto Paddle
• Maeder's Version
• Paddle Perfection
• Chinese Compass / Louis Histed
• The Golfer's Compass
• The Triple Compass
• The Toucan Compass / Toucan
• WhoZoo / Toucan
• Poly-Paks
• Poly-Pak 1
• Poly-Pak and Flint Paper
• Poly-Pak 2
• The Rainbow Deck
• Rainbow Cards 2
• Spectrum Pack & Chromix
• Poly-Pak Supreme
• The Eric Lewis Fanning Deck / Eric C. Lewis
• The Technicolor Lady
• Serendipity / Louis Histed
• The Gambler
• Tricks with Magicky Props / Louis Histed
• The Cain of Wu Long Fang / Louis Histed
• The Rising Block ...

Don Tanner reveals a dozen of U. F. Grant's amazing magic effects, mental mysteries and illusions in this clever collection. The tricks are arranged into six categories, making it easy to select the perfect miracle for your next show.

Table of Contents

• Elasti-Scape (Cards)
• Easy-Do Card Miracle
• Shadow Coin
• Coin Stitched
• Slow-Motion Bill Switch
• Flight (Bills)
• A Cigarette Classic
• Continuous Cigarette Production
• Zella Number Pad Cards (Mentalism)
• $1000 Challenge Mind Reading Act
• The Farmer and the Witch (Illusion)
• Santa Claus Arrives (Illusion)

Table of Contents

• CARDS
  • The Magician's Apprentice / Benedict Cowper
  • Double Control / Patrick Playfair
  • Visible Ace Popper / Piet Forton
  • Hole in the Deck / Carson
  • Chinese Coin Card Trick / Eric Lewis
  • Cards to Pocket / Patrick Page
  • Aces in Agony / Hubert Lambert
  • Introducing the Aces / Cas Boxley
  • Duo Coincidence / Anon
  • Infallible Force / Anon
  • Premonition in Reverse / Tony Griffiths
  • Ace Over / Anon
  • Dirty Deal / Bruce Cervon
  • The Bloodhound Card / Blake Maxam
  • The Amorphous Ace / Bro. John Hamman
  • Ace Over Again / Bruce Cervon
  • Kings Through Table / Bro. John Hamman
  • Face-up Face-Down...

Table of Contents

• CLOSE-UP MAGIC
  • Expanding Texture / Eddie Joseph
  • Colour Cones / Werry
  • Bolt of Lightning / Fin Haugen
  • Coin Transposition / Kaplan
  • The Penton Dice Routine / Charles E. Penton
  • Paper Balls to Hat / Slydini
  • Burnt and Restored Handkerchief / Jean Hugard
  • My Business Card / Evan P. Morgan
  • A Sharper's Trick (31) / Ellis Staynon
  • Marked Coin, Glass and Okito Box Routine / Lewis Ganson
• MAGIC WITH PLAYING CARDS
  • Dippy Magnet / Robert Harbin
  • Hidden Power / Jack Yates
  • A "Slate" Mistake / Harbin and Lewis
  • Jumbo Wild Card / Peter Kane
  • Sharper Sharped / Eric C. Lewis ...

The secret books of Eric Lewis.

A personal selection by Eric Lewis of the best and most interesting tricks he encountered during a lifetime of magic. Everything is stunningly illustrated.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Wands for adult performers, kids' entertainers, comedy magicians, clowns, and anyone who uses a magic wand in the show.

Author Ian Adair conjures up a multitude of magic wands for all types of magical entertainers. There's tricks and routines using un-gimmicked wands, gimmicked wands, comedy wands, banner wands, jumbo wands, coloured wands ..., a 'wanderful' collection. New wands and new ideas from Ian.

Every adult performer will use one or more of these wands in his/her show - every kids' entertainer will love the super-duper comedy gag wands. There are 'message' banner wands too!

PLUS:...

Cards, coins and other effects.

The Magic of Trevor Dawson; cards, coins, and other effects is a compilation of a lifetime's work studying the art of conjuring with many original ideas for sleights and moves, and a collection of magic tricks with cards, coins, and other objects. The book is compiled and edited by Roger Woods with some assistance from Brian Lead.

Table of Contents

• Introduction and acknowledgements
• Biography of Trevor Dawson 1934-2017
• Preliminaries and Foreword
  • Practice
  • Presentation
• Card Magic
• Card Sleights and Moves
  • Shuffles
  • Cuts
  • Controls
  • Forces
  • Breaks ...

This book contains 40 amazing tricks, tips and suggestions for the use of magicians' wax.

If you're like most magicians, you have a jar, can or dispenser of magicians' wax in your magic drawer ... but what do you do with it? Why not use it to revitalize your act with the tricks contained in this book.

Features effects with Cards, Coins, Silks, Ropes, Cigarettes, and Mental Effects.

And of course, the book includes that perennial favorite, the Card on Ceiling. One neighborhood bar we went into recently had the ceiling virtually covered with playing cards, as one local magician was prone...

Practical routines and presentations for the modern magician.

You are about to discover a collection of magic that deliberately walks the line between the cleverly practical and the absurdly comedic. The routines within these pages - from the "404 Spirit Not Found" slate gag to the self-working sock teleportation - appear here not just for their surprising effects, but for their personality. Magic, at its best, isn't about fooling an audience into thinking you possess supernatural powers; it's about creating a shared moment of wonder mixed with laughter, where even the magician seems to be...

All of Lubor Fiedler's released tricks, plus his story of life, plus more.

Lubor Fiedler was the most creative magic trick inventor of all time. There is no comparison. He introduced so many new principles, concepts, and ideas into magic that it took me 20 years to create this record of his achievements. Many will be familiar with his astounding Tenyo releases, but that is merely the tip of the iceberg of his creations. It is hard to overstate his achievements. Lubor's Gozinta Boxes is to this day something I look at and marvel at. It is so simple but at the same time so amazing, the true...

This is the complete set of four Lubor Fiedler notebooks, almost 1000 pages. Lubor started them in 1976, 1981, 1987, and 2010, respectively.

One of my goals with this publication was to preserve Lubor Fiedler's notebooks in their original form, because I am certain they will be studied for generations to come. No single person should interpret Lubor's thoughts. Everybody should be able to draw their own conclusions and find and take what is most useful to them. That is why every page has been reproduced as a facsimile, except for blank pages, even though few will be able to read Lubor's notebooks...

This is a compilation of various videos about Lubor Fiedler and his tricks. Many of them are in German, such as interviews and profiles from TV and an early lecture video. Two videos do not feature Lubor, but present tricks invented by Lubor.

• ORF: Am Schauplatz die Zauberfamilie: profile and interview of Lubor Fiedler (26th October 2000)
• Electrostatic flight demo
• Electrostatic flight preparation
• Fiedlerisierte Gegenstände: early lecture video (late 1970s)
• Finger flash & Spooky Glasses
• Floating Ball 1
• Floating Ball 2
• Free Schoolbook demo by Mark Setteducati
• Inside Lubor Fiedler's...

Martin Lewis convinced Alexander de Cova to release his work on the thumbtip. This is like nothing you have ever seen before. His innovative handling of this tool will astound you. First, Alex performs and explains three original routines, each of which is not only a lesson in the use of a thumbtip but a world-class effect to boot. Finally, he explains his deceptively simple "Three Point Theory" and discusses in depth the logic, reasons and methods that will change your view of the thumbtip forever.

Rosediction: In this presentation for platform or stage a romantic prediction...

MISERS DREAM
No sleight of hand method can match this extraordinary illusion that Alexander has created for this classic effect.

BOXED TRANSPOSITION
A signed card flies to card case while both are in full view. Then comes a real puzzle climax.

FORTE X
Whatever card your spectators are thinking of, you have it already predicted! A real stunner!

POROUS PLASTIC
Three silver dollars penetrate a clear plastic ziplock three times. Can also be done with cookies for the kiddies.

GROUNDHOG DAY
Experimental magic based on deja vu. Experimental magic based on deja vu.

BEAN COUNTER
Can...

Martin Lewis writes:

Punchy, powerful tricks for magicians

From one of the most prolific and battle-tested creators in modern magic comes an ebook that does not mess around. Astonishers is not theory. It's not pipe dreams. And it's definitely not magic that only works in the comfort of your living room. This is real-world, audience-tested, reputation-building magic - created, refined, and performed by Wolfgang Riebe, a full-time professional entertainer with over four decades of global performance experience.

Every routine in this ebook has earned its place in front of live, paying audiences. No filler. No...

After a brief breakfast survey with the audience, the magician brings out a box of a 'new' cereal called Halfsies. Excitedly pointing out the "Free Inside! Magic Card Trick" ad on the box front, a jumbo deck is pulled out. Well, actually, it's just half a deck, like everything in Halfsies land. A half a card trick follows, leading to a half round of applause and a second try. The Split Deck finds its best and most natural use in this funny stand-up routine that features clever wordplay and a surprising and satisfying ending.

Halfsies is one of my favorite routines because of its simplicity...