Magic & Mentalism: page 25

The tricks in this ebook represent a selection of the best tricks from each issue of Magic Is Fun, a magazine now out of print. Wherever possible, credit has been given to the originator of each trick or its presentation.

Over 100 tricks that anyone can perform with simple inexpensive props. Including instructions in showmanship, sleight of hand and ventriloquism.

Tricks taught are:

• The Vanishing Inch
• Balancing a Glass on a Card
• Boy or Girl
• Blowing a Card
• The Liquefied Block
• Face-up Card
• Hindu Thumb Penetration
• A Strong Dollar
• The Screwy Match
• Multiplying Coins
• Magic Light
• Card and Ribbon...

A collection of startling and sensational mysteries ... twenty feature tricks.

• Chinese Screen Trick
• Chinese Rope Trick
• Baskets-Confetti and Doves
• Ribbon And Hat
• Cylinder-Water & Fish
• Parasol-Ball & Water
• Cup-Silk & Smoke
• Gong Silk Production
• Copper Bowl Production
• Chinese Lamp Trick
• Chinese Water Cups
• Mystery Foulard
• Here And There
• Sensational Bowl Production
• Beads Of Chen-Lee
• Chinese Chew Tobacco
• Bamboo Pole and Box
• Flower Garden Illusion
• Screen Mystery

PDF 22 pages.

The Hot Rod is one of those great items that can be used to perform dozens of very different effects. This ebook provides clear instructions and ideas for getting the most out of your Hot Rod or any color changing rod.

• Introduction
• The Hot Rod
• Various Moves
  1. Mouth
  2. Through Fist
  3. Swing
  4. D
  5. Little D
  6. Wheel
  7. Throw In Air
  8. Push Vanish
  9. Thumb Palm
  10. Finger Palm
  11. Thumb Vanish
  12. Another Vanish
  13. One In Each Hand
  14. Two In One Hand
  15. Lock
  16. Rubber
  17. Half And Half
• Tricks With Household Items
  1. To A Pretzel
  2. To A Rolled Bill
  3. To Paper
  4. To A Cigarette
  5. To A Silk
  6. Through Silk
• Tricks Made With Things...

Milbourne Christopher explains how to do fifty different tricks with one of magic's greatest gimmicks, the Thumb Tip. Tricks are clearly described and illustrated.

Paul Fleming wrote:

Enrico Varella, corporate trainer and world-class distance runner from Singapore, is an experienced magician, and VP of the IBM ring 115, 'The Great Wong Ring' in Singapore.

Enrico has performed in over 22 countries in live performances as well as on television. He is also the creator of "Tiepit", a jacket-less topit - check it out!

The three routines described herein are favorites of Enrico, having been refined after countless performances over 25 years.

XXX-Traordinary - 3 coins materialize, one at a time, each then becomes "invisible", and then, materialize once again!

Nocturnal...

A new look at some favorite topics in mentalism. From the favorite confabulation done with a phone, but needing no app all the way to a game of Russian roulette with a paintball gun and another with a glass of liquid!

Scott Xavier will take you through several mentalism effects he's added into his new resort show in key west.

1st edition 2016, 18 pages.

Nicely illustrated routines of a full-time performer.

From the introduction:

This ebook is profusely illustrated by Ed Mishell and includes tricks, tips, presentations, publicity, patter and ideas. Clever and ingenious routines, many with standard props or none at all.

• Preface
• One Man's Opinion
• Costly Cover
• A Funny Bill Bit
• Smooth Floating Ball
• Karger's Coin Stack
• Through The Ribbon
• Cigarette Machine
• Coin Catching Comedy
• Flash Tv Frame
• Brainwave Deck Gag
• Baker Slate Tip
• Much Into Little
• Torn Center Tip
• Buzz Saw Ideas
• Four Ink Spots
• Move For Mentalists
• Knife Through Coat
• Shooting A Candle
• Bubble Gum Magic
• Squaring The Circle
• Silk In Box
• Three...

A compilation of effects by magic notable H. Adrian Smith including Modern Card Miracle, Magic Square, Twentieth Century Billiard Ball Trick, and an Effective Handkerchief stretch. 16 effects in all plus a introduction from Percy Abbott.

• Introduction
• Twentieth Century Billiard Ball Trick
• New Card to the Pocket
• A Modern Card Miracle
• A Different Conclusion
• Sympathetic Aces
• Matching the Aces
• A Sucker Mental Effect
• A New Click Pass
• The Coins Up the Sleeve
• Passing Four Coins to a Glass
• A Further Variation of the Passing of the Four Coins
• An Effective Handkerchief Stretch
• Untying a...

• 102 tricks you can learn quickly and amaze and mystify your friends
• tricks with cards, coins, toothpicks
• puzzles
• mindreading
• no special apparatus required
• each trick is fully illustrated

• Checker Jumping
• Goblet Juggling
• Stars And Circle Trick
• Levitation
• Phantom Coin
• One Or Two
• He Drinks
• Presto! Change - O!
• Coin Vanish Secret
• Painless Surgery
• An Obedient Match Box
• Mind Reader
• Hole In Your Hand
• Card Tossing
• Houdini's Knife Trick
• Vanishing Dime
• Hypnotized Cigar
• Takes Practice ... But
• Do Your Eyes Lie?
• Four Ace Production
• Think Of A Number
• Rising Cigarettes ...

Mainly billiard balls but also thimbles, cards, coins and silks.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Billiard Balls
  • The Production Drop
  • The Best Change-Over Palm
  • An Easy Transfer Palm
  • Twist-Over Acquitment
  • Vanish from a Full Hand
  • A Colour Change in the Fist
  • The Fadeaway Vanish
  • The Enlarged Ball
  • The Drop Vanish
  • A Ball Passes Continuously From Hand to Hand
  • Color Change on Palm
  • Improvement on Standard Acquitment
  • Four Billiard Balls to a Cannon Ball
• Thimbles
  • A "Steal" Thimble Vanish
  • The "In and Out" Thumb Vanish
  • Vanish of Two Thimbles
• Coins
  • Special Coin Tourniquet
• Cards ...

This is the sequel to Slow Sleights and again includes a variety of moves for billiard balls, cards, thimbles, silks and cigarettes.

• Preface
• A Billiard Ball Flourish
• Third-Finger Vanish
• The Improved Ball Twist-Over
• The Finger-Clip Ball Vanish
• One-Handed Colour Change
• The Improved Drop Vanish
• The Perfect False Count
• The Invisible Card Change
• The Mysterious Twelve
• A Neat Thimble Vanish
• The “Sudden" Thimble Vanish
• A Little-Finger Vanish
• Thimble Through The Hand
• The Elusive Handkerchief Thimble
• A Thimble Vanish From Handkerchief
• A Thimble Constantly Passes From Hand To Hand
• A Twist-Over...

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Coin Section
  • Single-Handed Vanish of Four Coins: especially for use with the Hughes' Coin Tray
  • Disappearance by Misdirection: of a single coin
  • Flying Coins: coins are dropped into a folded handkerchief and vanish
• Card Section
  • Something New in Top Changes
  • Leading Them up the Garden Path: using the Top Change
  • Everybody's Card: top change and dealing 2nds
  • All Change: Card A is placed on the table, Card B inserted to middle of deck. Card B is found on top of the deck, Card A in the middle, and the card on the table is a 3rd card
  • Vanishing Faces: cards appear...

Borrow a ring and a set of keys and visually link the ring onto the keyring with a tap. Impromptu and clean, nothing to find. The ring is seen to go right through the keyring with only a tap, highly visual and undeniable, then you let go of the ring and let it hang from the keyring clearly and unmistakably. After they confirm that that is their ring hanging from the keyring, you melt the ring back off the keyring where you tapped it, and hand everything back, completely clean.

1st edition 2016, length 7 minutes.

From the Foreword:

• The Call of the East
• The Wandering Bottle
• The Repeat Six Card Trick
• Es-Ta Burnt and Restored Handkerchief

1st edition 1949 (Calcutta, India), PDF 4 pages

Magic enabled by double sided tape.

This ebook will show you how to place a coin at the tips of your fingers and, in full view of the audience, cause that coin to vanish in an instant! All this without the use of a pull. You may shake your hands vigorously to prove that nothing is contained therein. You then proceed to produce coin after coin from mid-air - you will produce a number of coins, not just one. With this new method of palming it is possible for the magician to work in short sleeves (or, for that matter, with no sleeves at all). You can show both hands convincingly empty and at...

Only an experienced performer could write a practical book of this kind. No theories, but facts and tested procedures - that are invaluable when put into practice. Therefore, you are not only getting an ebook containing original tricks, moves and routines, but information that will pay you dividends, be you beginner, amateur or professional.

You will love Monk's natural breezy style - and while you are absorbing the splendid advice on acquiring the professional touch in your performance, you will get many a chuckle in the bargain. Chapters embrace the following subjects:

• Lets Have A Reason...

If you love scams, hustles, cons, bar betchyas, flim-flam, stings, snow jobs, bamboozles, chicanery, shams, fixes, baloney, and other dirty tricks then this ebook is for YOU!

In this follow-up to his popular eBook How to Sell Bridges, David Devlin teaches the finer points of some of the many scams and hustles that have made him a lot of money. He also discusses some of the more elaborate cons that have been used throughout history and the cons who pulled them off. Also discussed are cons used today including selling ridiculous products, phony business "opportunities", scamming major corporations out of thousands...

Ravi has a real knack for making use of normal, everyday objects as part of his repetoire. His tricks are highly visual, easy to do and they get great reactions in the real world. It won't take you an age to competently perform Ravi's effects - invest a short time to practice and then you can deliver accomplished results without any complicated sleight of hand or unnecessary, complex routining. In short, you'll be amazing people before you know it!

'Real Counterfeit Money' is a terrific money change effect and 'Corner Light' is a spectacularly devious little number - leaving part of a spectator's...

Ring

A ten phase, powerhouse visual routine, done with just one ring. Each phase is modular leaving you the opportunity to do each phase, one phase or mix them up.

Damn Gum

Remove a piece of gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe. Simply change it into the inner wrap of the gum package; change it again into a full, store bought pack of gum. Take out a piece of gum, eat it or give the piece to your spectator.

S.C.T.B (Signed Coin Thru Bill)

Borrow a bill, borrow a coin. Have the spectator sign the coin. Fold the bill in half and place the coin inside the bill. Crimp the coin inside...

• Foreword
• Yrutnec Hteitnewt
• Coin Materialisation
• The Coins Disappear
• Ring Penetration
• The Patriotic Change
• The Inca Ring
• Two Colour Production Tube
• Two In One
• Riffle Rice
• A Ribbon Mystery
• The Dove Mat Illusion
• The Travelling Flame
• Thimble Penetration
• Mr. Rabbit
• A Stacked Deck
• Kleenex Production
• Looped Rope Through Neck
• Rope Through Neck
• Silk Chain
• Production Of A Silk
• The Dancing Rings And Umbrella Finale

Reminiscences of Charles H. Foster who some consider the most gifted and remarkable spiritual medium since Emanuel Swedenborg. This account gives facts and descriptions of many seances held in different parts of the world.

This is a fascinating account of Charles H. Foster's story - a medium who exhibited mostly skin writing (dermography) and pellet reading. When Foster visited England in 1861 materialization phenomena were added to his performances.

Foster enjoyed drinking alcohol and smoking cigars in barrooms with his companions as much as he did transmitting messages from the dead....

This is the book that tells the truth about cards, dice, punch boards, gambling wheels, races, and all other kinds of gambling.

Don't be a sucker! The Open Book reveals how crooked gamblers, cheats, and con artists fleece the innocent and unwary public out of thousands of dollars daily. Even that carnival game at the local fairgrounds may not be as innocent as it looks. Get the inside scoop.

Valuable secrets of marked cards, gaffed dice, ink formulas, holdouts and other cheating devices -- all clearly explained. Also included are scams and cons used by the unscrupulous to bilk the unwary....