Magic & Mentalism: page 8

• 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.

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 ...

This guide will take you step by step through the process of learning the Pepper In and Salt Out Transformation and Vanish. This trick or effect is designed for beginner to advanced magicians. You will learn moves and handling that will serve you very well in dozens of other effects. There are several twists and turns that are very uncommon and not found in the normal salt/pepper shaker routines seen in the magic universe today.

Four things make this effect very special.

1. Spectator Involvement. The spectator pours pepper from a pepper shaker into the closed fist of the magician.
2. The...

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...

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...

This is an intermediate to advanced thumb tip workshop for my friends at Lybrary.com. I want us to reimagine and revolutionize our tipistry. Tipistry means breathtaking thumb tip handling ability, competence, proficiency, and mastery. If we can pull this off, you'll skyrocket your confidence with a thumb tip. In our thumb tip magic, objections create skeptics and I don't want to create skeptics, I want to create awe.

In this 29-minute workshop, I will discuss the misconceptions and no no's of thumb tip magic and how to correct these flaws. I will show you how to elevate your Tipistry and...

From the introduction:

"It's a thing of beauty. Everything is covered and I believe it might be one of the best purchases magicians can make today. You cover everything in detail and it's a pleasure to watch. - Olivier Boes

I want us to reimagine and revolutionize our tipistry. Tipistry means breathtaking thumb tip handling ability, competence, proficiency, and mastery. If we can pull this off, you'll also skyrocket your confidence with a thumb tip.

My methodology is to perform close up, with no weird or wacky moves. I just perform slow and deliberate with handling and moves that defy logic.

The Thumb...

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.

• 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.

From the introduction by Terry Seabrooke:

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

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:

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 Preface:

From the preface by John Ramsay:

From the foreword:

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

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...

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....

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.

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...

Excerpt from the introduction by Kevin James:

1st edition 2022, video 11:43

The performer shows the back of a playing card. Suddenly the card has transformed into a foam heart. This is based on a black art principle and thus requires a black background. Arts and crafts are necessary to construct the gimmick.

1st edition 2022, video 24:34