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Sword swallowing, fire eating, feats of strength, juggling secrets,...

In this Little Blue Book I have described and explained most of the tricks which are to be seen in the typical Side-Show, whether in the circus or elsewhere. The historical side of this subject has already been dealt with quite fully by Houdini, in his book Miracle Mongers and Their Methods, but very few actual explanations are therein given, despite the title and I feel assured that the present little book covers the subject in a more complete manner than any other single volume which has so far appeared. Animal Tricks, and the tricks of professional gamblers,...

This volume can be considered the continuation of The Magic of Slydini. Here, Slydini reveals for the first time two devilish sleights the Imp-Pass and the Revolve-Vanish. These enable some of his most characteristic routines.

Excerpt from the editor's preface:

Slydini Encores is a great book with many photos, but despite the genuine efforts by the author and editor to capture Slydini's magic and teach it, it is tough to learn the details and the exact timing from the book. This is particularly true for students who have not experienced Slydini live. Dennis Barlotta, aka D. Angelo Ferri, who studied under Slydini for several years, provides in this video lecture the missing details and demonstrations so that you can actually learn and perform these miracles.

Dennis demonstrates and discusses almost everything from the book, Prediction in Red, Alladin Purse,...

Conjuring tricks with cards balls, and dice; magic writing, performing animals, etc.

This is a surprisingly interesting book edited by W. H. Cremer. It includes an early precursor of the Chop Cup. (See The Magic Dutch Balls.) It has interesting information on gambling, cheating, and scams. The chapter on 'Magic Writing' is a wonderful history of cryptography and steganography. The chapter on animal training is one of the most detailed I have encountered. It also includes a wealth of magic tricks, science experiments, and effects based on apparatus.

• Part I. Modern Magic By Sleight Of Hand...

This new eBook is a treasure trove of great and practical magic. Old magic books, magazines, and catalogs are full of wonderful tricks that are mostly unknown today. These tricks astonished audiences in the past and they can astonish them today. All the material contained in Forgotten is practical and will work today as well as it did in the past. In this new eBook by Marko (former admin of The Learned Pig Project), you'll find the following.

MAGICAL GERMINATION. Dip your empty hand into a round transparent fishbowl and it magically fills with flowers. Hand is seen empty at all times. You're...

100 tricks for the drawing room.

Containing an extensive and miscellaneous collection of conjuring and legerdemain; sleights with dice, dominoes, cards, ribbons, rings, fruit, coins, balls, handkerchiefs, etc. All of which may be performed in the parlor or drawing room. Without the aid of any apparatus; also embracing a choice variety of curious deceptions which may be performed with the aid of simple apparatus.

• PART I. TRICKS OF LEGERDEMAIN, CONJURING, SLEIGHT OF HAND, AND OTHER FANCIES, COMMONLY CALLED "WHITE MAGIC"
  • Preliminary Observation
  • Palming Coin
  • The Magic Coin
  • To Untie a...

A new book full of practical and highly effective magical routines. I have been a professional magician for 55 years and I have performed all of the routines I describe in this eBook so you can be sure they are 100% practical.

Some of the routines include videos of myself performing before real live audiences so you can see the strong effect these have upon the spectators.

Here's a list of what you'll find in this fantastic ebook:

THE TRAVELLING KNOTS: A streamlined version of the "Sympathetic Knots" effect using six colorful silks. This is very fast, showy, and has a very strong...

A very visual vanish of a common item: a chewing gum. You take a gum with two fingers and with a smooth movement the gum disappears into thin air.

• Easy to perform and easy to make.
• Visual and practical.
• Make the gimmick in 3 minutes.

Note: TV rights not included with purchase. Please contact Sultan Orazaly if you want to perform this on TV.

1st edition 2024, video 6:41.

When several of the foremost authors in modern magic collaborate with the owner of one of the most respected magic companies, you just know the result will be a great book. Originally released in a limited edition by the owner of Thayer Magic Studios, the first and only previous edition of this clever collection sold out and has never been reprinted … until now.

Features top-quality effects from Dr. Boris Zola, J. Elder Blackledge, T. Nelson Downs, Edward Bagshawe, M. F. Zens, Harlan Tarbell, Herman L. Weber, T. J. Crawford, and others.

Originally published in a limited edition, priced at more than $33.00 in today's money. Not just jaw-dropping...

• Twentieth Century Billiard Ball Trick
• New Card To The Pocket
• A Modern Card Miracle
• A Different Conclusion
• Sympathetic Aces
• A New Click Pass
• The Coins Up The Sleeve
• A New Miser's Dream
• The Magic Square
• The Percival Shoe Lace Trick

1st edition 1933, PDF 16 pages.

This is a compilation of three lecture notes released during the 1980s by Ray Grismer: Short Notes, Magic, and Lecture. As the name suggests these are short notes on the items Grismer presented during his lecture. There is some overlap between these three notes.

• Short Notes
  • About These Notes
  • Queens And Fives
  • Separ-Ace-Ion
  • Flakie
  • Hooz?
  • Handy
  • Swivel Cutting Aces
  • Fan Spell
  • Psychic Game
  • Mental Stop
  • Bookie
• Magic
  • Fraces
  • Hooz?
  • Flakie
  • Fan Spell
  • Prep H
  • Mindray 2nd
  • Computer
  • B_J Demo
  • Hip ESP
  • E-Z Foxy
  • Bookie
  • Values
• Lecture
  • Quickwich
  • Idaho Poker
  • Tiger
  • Timeit Or Peekit ...

Timeless magic for today's audiences.

A captivating collection of little-known magic routines meticulously curated for modern performers. Dive into the world of enchantment as you uncover a treasure trove of almost forgotten tricks rejuvenated for today's audiences.

This ebook offers an array of easy-to-master yet impactful routines that will leave your audience spellbound. Whether you're a seasoned magician or just starting on your magical journey, these routines are designed to captivate and astonish, ensuring unforgettable performances every time. Rediscover the joy of magic and delight...

Excerpt from the introduction by Herbert Holmes:

• The Pass Surpassed
• Chameleon Card
• Henry Hardin's Handkerchief Production
• B. H. Additional Wrinkle To Show Both Palms At Once
• Additional Wrinkle
• Super-Supreme Force
• Concluding The Effect
• Auto-Operative Shuffle
• Handkerchief Creation
• Climax Color Change
• The Wonder Pass
• The Impromptu Magician
• The Indeceptive Deception
• Burling Hull "Invisible Pass"
• A Unique Thimble "Move"
• Burling Hull Thimble Production

1st edition 1914, 26 pages; PDF 20 pages.

Gaffed games, clever cons, sensational swindles - how to spot the bunco artist before he cheats you.

This may well be the greatest exposé of gambling methods, swindles, confidence games and carnival midway hustles ever published. No matter if you're a magician, gambler, carnival midway patron (or operator), law enforcement professional, or simply want to protect yourself, you're going to enjoy this book.

Especially valuable to those with an interest in carnival and gaming paraphernalia are the methods used to gaff the devices as sold back in the day by H. C. Evans, K. C. Card Co., and...

Moves and tricks culled from the early issues of the Magic Wand.

• PREFACE
• WITH BILLIARD BALLS
  • A Billiard Ball Colour Change / Stanley Norton
  • Magical Juggling / T. Wilson
  • A Billiard Ball Sleight / Edward Victor
  • New Billiard Ball Production and Manipulation / Kingsley Ronald
  • Legerdemain / Horace Rose
  • Rice, Silk and Ivory / Stanley Norton
  • A Billiard Ball Trick / Phillip Lenard
  • A Billiard Ball Move / Tom L.Waterman
• WITH COINS
  • A Novel Tourniquet Pass / Chris Van Bern
  • A Feat of Dexterity / Horace Rose
  • Moves With a Penny / T. Wilson
  • A New Coin Pass / George Johnson
  • A Coin Effect / Stanley Norton ...

Each issue of this series by Gregg Webb started out as three articles - hence the name. Usually, each issue was devoted to a topic such as cards, coins, or mental magic ideas. Usually, two articles were about specific tricks and the 3rd article was sometimes an article about theory or other more general topics.

There is even material about how to learn to be creative and not simply follow the crowd. The series contains some of Gregg's most original thinking in years. If you like "outside the box" thinking, try this. Some of the items are improvements and streamlined versions of Gregg's...

There are currently three e-books in the Four-midable Magic Series, each containing four top routines dedicated to a particular type of magic.

Ideas for radio magic, podcasts, and ZOOM shows

Radio has a following of thousands of listeners. It is a powerful promotional vehicle for magicians that the magic press have long neglected.

Combining the extensive research of Ian Fenn with the previously unpublished thoughts of Arthur Setterington, this ebook aims to help magicians make the most of this challenging medium.

It's not merely a book of tricks. It's intended to give you the information you need to create your own routines that will turn listeners into clients or live audiences.

Contents

• Introduction
• History of radio...

The magician picks up a card box as if to demonstrate a card trick and discovers that it rattles. Opening it, he tips from within four 3-volt circular batteries. Taking one of the batteries into his fist, he squeezes it and on opening the hand it is seen to have changed to a more powerful AAA battery. Holding this battery at the fingertips, the performer passes his other hand across it and causes it to visibly change to a larger AA battery.

Finally, he clasps his two empty hands together and on parting them reveals that now a square 9-volt battery has magically appeared!

No gimmicks...

Tricks with silks, ropes, rings, and balls.

If you like to work with invisible thread you will find interesting material here.

• Effect with Two Silks
• Two Ring Effects
• Silk, Paper Bag, and Ring
• With Two Rings
• Another Effect with Two Rings
• Ball and Glass
• Ball Production with a Silk
• Sleeving Principle
• Ball Color Change

1st edition ~1960; PDF 14 pages.

• Games (Pass the Beads; The Magician Game; Sweet Production)
• Toadstool And Ragdoll
• Rabbit Production
• Happy Birthday / Happy Christmas Box
• Routine For Blind Date
• The Magic Christmas Tree
• Prize Spell
• Grandma's Knitting Bag
• The Space Rocket Trick

1st edition ~1988, PDF 10 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction:

• A Magical Mish-Mosh (And Other Tricky Trivia)
• The Magic Scroll
• Milk To Dove
• Dagger Dime
• My Six Card Repeat
• Two Coins And A Wineglass
• The Peripatetic...

These are lecture notes that provide a quick summary of effects that were presented at the lecture. While the descriptions are brief, most provide enough details for the average magician to get the idea.

1. Blendo Bag
2. The Blooming Bush
3. Flower Production One
4. Flower ProdUCTION TWO
5. Bongoloon
6. Balloon Valve
7. Card Fantastick
8. Ring Rope And Hat
9. Ring Off Rope
10. Wedding Bowls
11. Witch Switch
12. The Mouse In The Bag
13. Holy Hanky
14. Chain Of Office
15. The Blooming Stooge
16. Fortune In The Flames
17. Button Bag & Blackboard
18. Clarence
19. Coins Across For Children
20. Coins Across - Impromptu
21. Coins Across With Bongotray ...