Magic & Mentalism: page 34

Turn a cap into a magic prop and have cards appear and change. For example, you can use it for a kind of 'card stabbing' routine where you spring the cards and catch one card in your cap. Or have one card visually change into another. To make the gimmicks requires some arts and crafts, but nothing too complicated and no supplies you wouldn't likely already have.

The separate effects are:

• Flick
• Stabbed
• I-tap
• Spinner

Not all gimmicks can be incorporated into the same cap and thus not all effects shown could be done with just one cap.

Deepak also explains a lovely linking effect...

Balance small objects on the edge of a card. The gimmick is easy to make but finicky to use. Also, watch your angles. Great for one-on-one or video shots but not so great with multiple spectators. The gimmick does not involve a thread, reel, or magnets.

1st edition 2022, video 12:10.

Here are 12 more mind-blowing Bob Hummer close-up and parlor puzzlers that will entertain most any audience. From the brilliant mind of Bob Hummer comes this tasty helping of magic and mental mysteries using cards, a spoon, and even a 6 x 6 checkerboard. Some of these offerings were originally sold as separate manuscripts and are now out of print.

Also included in this volume are the effects that made up Hummer's 3 Trix booklet in 1947, which has been out of print for decades. Now you can add these great tricks to your performing arsenal before the other magicians in your area get them....

Tricks about travel and more.

Here's a selection of cool self-working magic and mentalism tricks perfect for close-up and stand-up.

For example: The spectator freely selects a luggage label that has a holiday destination written on it. When a world map is opened, their chosen destination is circled.

Or how about this: A selection of postcards is shown - they're moved from the back of the pile to the front. When the spectator calls 'STOP!' the very next postcard is the only one with a hand-written message on it.

Or: Three luggage labels with vacation destinations written on them are...

An excellent selection of tricks by no other than David Devant. From his introduction:

From the preface by John Ramsay:

From the foreword:

From the Preface:

It is not easy to define, in a few words, Mariano Tomatis, but I want to try: he is a "Curiosity Generator". Because his books, his conferences, and, above all, his "pills" on Youtube (Mesmer in pills) are for me an inexhaustible source of information, culture (magical or otherwise), ideas, and, above all, a continuous stimulus to know, to seek, to try, to create, to "go upstairs".

Two pills, in particular, struck me and interested me (n ° 92: Coin, pen and cell phone, and n ° 228: Seeing with the third eye): once seen, I tried to analyze possible developments, discovering Masters, authors,...

From the introduction:

A superb selection of items from the professional repertoire of Roy Johnson. Mentalism, comedy and visual magic with cards, books, rope, keys, shoe laces, music, fire and razor. Revealed are some of Roy's most closely guarded secret methods. Much of Roy's own patter is included for you to use, or adapt to your own style. The methods given are simple and effective, leaving you to concentrate on the "job in hand" ... entertainment!

• Foreword
• Music Maestro
• The Key
• Key Cords
• To Hell And Back
• The Library
• Again The Library
• The Card In Anything
• Hyp-Knot-Ic
• Impaled

1st edition 1995,...

From the introduction by Terry Seabrooke:

• Why Listen To This Man?
• Karrell...

• The Mysterious Silk
• The Rings In A Matchbox
• Ultra Combination
• Double Color Laces
• The Odd Vision
• Discolora
• Square Circles
• The Pocket Rings
• The Pack Of 19 Cigarettes
• The Traveling Queens
• The Rings On Rope
• Two Possibilities
• Three Color Mystery
• The Laughing Rabbits
• The Secret Of The Ring

For the German edition see Pavel's 15 Mikro Tricks (German).

1st edition 1971; PDF 32 pages.

A collection of some 15 effects with silks, ribbons, rings, balls, glasses, tubes, paper, dice, and other objects.

• Instant Silk
• Colorings
• Jet Rope
• Effecto Tube
• Top Match
• Test-A-Colour
• Chameleon Die
• Transpo Silks
• Jumping Knots
• Silken Trio
• Knotty Rope
• Ribbon Prediction
• Travelling Hole
• Sucker Restoration
• Super Ball

1st edition 1980, 34 pages; PDF 33 pages.

From the introduction:

Arch Hive by Dale A. Hildebrandt "Some Collected Works Volume One" is the first collected works of Dale A. Hildebrandt. From his first manuscript Hypnohole & Other Absurdities to later manuscripts, submissions to periodicals, and manuscripts by others, this is the first volume of collected works of Dale A. Hildebrandt.

Dale has been publishing magic books since 2001 and has contributed to various online and physical publications of others since a few years before that. He's created Dual Reality pieces, Out to Lunch Variations, Mentalism pieces, both funny and dark Bizarre magick, reading...

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• About Roy Baker
• "Stuck-Kup"
• "Catch The Cup"
• Cigarette Through Handkerchief Baker Style
• Roy Baker's Method Of "Knife Thro' Coat"
• Two Stunts With A Pen
• It's Getting Larger
• The...

From the Foreword by David Devant:

• A Foreword
• "Ladies & Gentlemen"
• Natural Selection
• Shuffle For Arranged Pack
• Aerial Treasury Up-to-Date
• The Celebrity Trick
• Thought Control
• A Card Location Idea
• A Fruity Experiment
• A Use For The Charlier Pass
• A Special Table & Suggestions therewith
• Chameleon Balls and Water
• False Shuffle For Arranged Pack
• A New Precipitation of Cards
• A Black Art Chair
• The Dictionary Trick
• Hammond's Method for Arranged Pack of Cards ...

• I. The Bones of Contention
• II. A Lesson in Deception
• III. Name Your Choice
• IV. One Handed Magic
• V. A Promising Pupil
• VI. The Wicked Wizard and the Perplexed Parson
• VII. All Smoke
• VIII. The Rude Spirit
• IX. Inexplicable Precipation
• X. The Zancig Cards
• XI. A Mix Up
• XII. Dressing Dolly
• XIII. Make Weight

1st edition 1917, 32 pages; PDF 29 pages.

50 tricks with a bottomless glass.

Here's a clever collection of fifty tricks, tips, and ideas that you can do with a bottomless glass. Tricks you never thought possible can be done: mental effects, transpositions, color changes, vanishes, penetrations, comedy effects, productions, transformations, and more. Tricks with silks, coins, eggs, liquids, chains, cards, balls, smoke, sand, rings, dice, and much more.

Get this handy utility device out of your magic drawer and put it to work, with the help of this manuscript. You'll no doubt think of many other fine effects, once you've read it...

Bob Haskell's genius for brilliant story plots and well-thought-out mechanics made him a master of cabaret and platform magic. The inventor of such masterpieces as the Split Deck and the X-Salted Shaker digs deep into his performing repertoire to give you 17 of his favorites. Ranging from effects with cards, rope, a beautifully animated silk mystery, and a pair of mysteries using the "tap-it" principle, there's something within these pages for almost any necromancer worth his (or her) salt.

Here's magic for the performer who's up on basic card sleights and/or who can handle an effect using...

This is the sixth and final part of the series.

• The Flyaway Blocks
• Reel Magic
• The Cuban Cubes
• The Crystal-Gazer
• "About Turn"
• Discs Of Enchantment
• The Chinese Cashbox

1st edition 1932; PDF 22 pages.

A brand new lecture for 2022. This set of notes brings the live lecture footage directly to you with nearly 20 video clips and live performances.

• 140 pages
• Access to 17 video clips and performance footage
• Access to a secret website with bonus content.
• 12 effects
• 12 rapid-fire ideas / effects
• A total of 24 items!

Bermuda Box: A fun way to use a Gozinta Box set as something more magical than a mere puzzle.

The Man with the two Dollar Hands: An easy two in the hand, one in the pocket presentation.

Money to Burn: Make a drawing of a chosen coin turn into a real coin with no...

• "Curious Crayons"
• The "Bes-Tof-Al" Sympathetic Blocks
• Cigarette Transposition
• "The Gold Block"
• "The Mandarin's Fan"
• Groom's Rope Miracle

1st edition 1930; PDF 21 pages.

Cybercup is a fast attention grabber with nothing but a pen that sits in your pocket. Based on a well-known handling, this effect will fool your spectators.

Do it for yourself in front of a mirror. You'll fool yourself, so strong is the illusion.

Cybercup is a fast, visual, and interactive effect. Whether you are a miracle worker, salesperson, event host, or public speaker, this will help you break the ice and engage people in an instant.

The effect has been created to be remarkably visual on camera - whether that's using Zoom, FaceTime, Instagram Live, YouTube, or Skype. Your (digital)...