Cigarettes, Candles, Matches & Fire in Magic & Mentalism

As performed by David Copperfield on TV.

The "Torn and Restored Cigarette Paper" has been around for over a hundred years. Now Martin Lewis brings this classic into the 21st century with a new and exciting handling that relies on subtlety rather than dexterity. A handling that makes the effect clearly visible for two or two hundred! (Or even 9 million, if you have your own national TV special.)

This video shows how you can perform this ultra-clean restoration, which has consistently baffled magicians and laymen alike. Learn from Martin's 24 years of experience in performing this effect. ...

Fire eating and other Yogi stunts.

Most publications on this subject are dated and they generally do not include any information on where the dangers lie. Derek Lever, who has performed almost all the stunts described here, provides additional information on what not to do and why. Somebody who has tried out the bed of nails at 3 years of age, as a photo in this publication proves, knows the ins and outs of these stunts.

Nevertheless, we do not recommend replicating any of these stunts unless you are a professional and know the risks involved.

• Author And Publishers Warning
• About The...

Sleights and routines with lit and unlit cigarettes. Illustrated by numerous photographic reproductions from the author's own hands, together with some additional line drawings.

• PUBLISHER'S NOTE
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• PART ONE Unlighted Cigarette Section
  • Groundwork of Cigarette Magic
  • ENVANISHMENT
    • “Perfection” Vanish
    • Sliding Cigarette Vanish
    • My “Rising Cigarette” Vanish
    • “Vertical” Cigarette Vanish
    • “Favourite” Vanish
    • “Descention” Vanish
    • “D.D.” “Thumb-Slide” Vanish
    • Supplementary “Thumb-Slide” Vanish
    • My “Slow-Motion” Vanish
    • “Stationary”...

Here you will learn all the secrets, routines, and tips to manipulate cigarettes like Tony Slydini. Dennis Barlotta will teach you just as Slydini taught him. You will also learn how to make the cigarettes so that they look like real cigarettes yet are sturdy enough to be manipulated easily.

If you want to see Slydini perform some of these effects himself, check out The Amazing Slydini.

1st edition 2023, video 38 min.

Effects with Fantasio's vanishing and appearing candles.

Excerpt from the introduction:

You take a cigarette with two fingers and with a smooth movement the cigarette disappears into thin air.

• Easy to perform and easy to make. Requires some arts and crafts to make the gimmick, but only takes a few minutes to construct.
• Visual and practical. Watch your angles. This is only invisible from a restricted viewing angle.

1st edition 2022, video 10:25.

This small spring-loaded Bingo Shooting Device causes a loud bang by exploding a gunpowder cap.

According to its creator, S.S. Adams, ". . . It goes off with a loud bang when moved or disturbed. This little fun-maker can be used for jokes in a hundred different ways. Place it in a napkin or magazine, under a plate, cigarette box, hat, etc. [it’s] entirely harmless and always creates a big laugh."

Adams himself was known to install them in decks of playing cards, cigar boxes, books with risqué titles, and a whole lot more. Many of the ideas originated by Adams are sprinkled throughout this...

A square-shaped paper chimney is ignited. When it has burned to a cinder the remaining ash floats mysteriously up to the ceiling before descending back to the performer's outstretched hand. Entirely safe and under the performer's control at all times. An excellent effect to be combined with fortune-telling or mentalism. A thing of subtle beauty.

1st edition 2021; PDF 2 pages, video 15 s.

This is a detailed description of Keith Clark's 'Phoenix plot' routine, where a cigarette gets destroyed but somehow is recreated - as it were it rises like Phoenix from its ashes.

Paul Fleming wrote:

A long stem rose appears in a flash of fire at the performer's fingertips.

Ideal for birthdays, weddings, anniversary wishes, mother's and valentine's day. Some simple construction necessary - nothing complicated. Make your own video greetings with personalized vocal remarks.

1st edition, PDF 1 page, video 44s.

Make two cigarettes from one.

Magically and visually the filter of a cigarette splits into two. Tear the cigarette at the location of the new second filter and you now have two smaller cigarettes each with a filter. Hand one half out to share your cigarette.

1st edition 2019, length 19 min.

Ralf Rudolph takes on the challenge to let a lighted match float. He explains in detail how to make the gimmick, and how to perform the effect. You need to perform this under somewhat dimmed lighting conditions with some distance to your audience. It is best performed off-beat when nobody expects you to perform a magic trick. For example, it has become dark and you want to light a candle. Take a box of matches, light a match, and suddenly the match floats for 2-3 seconds. Then you light the candle with it.

1st edition 2019, length 15 min.

A manual of sorcery with cigarette papers. No matter whether you're a magician, a mentalist, or land somewhere in between, there's something for you in this brilliant ebook. Intimate, indetectable, close-up magic giving the appearing of great skill but requiring a minimum of sleight of hand. Over a dozen illustrations and a score of effects and methods.

Illustrated by Bob Gunther, former Disney animator, the moves are cleanly and clearly depicted, as if the authors were teaching them to you over drinks at their favorite watering hole.

Partial contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Basic...

From the introduction by Lewis Ganson:

Please note that the instructions are purely visual. No spoken words.

Show an empty pack of cigarettes. Close it. And when you open it again it is filled with genuine cigarettes.

1st edition 2018, 7 min 8 s

• Baffling At The Bar
• Remaking A Cigarette
• Fun With Cigarettes
  • Self-Lighting Cigarette
  • Stretching A Cigarette
• Visible Elongation
• The Writing On The Palm
• Three In One
• Levitation
• Vanishing and Appearing Lit Cigarette
• Lighting A Cigarette By Magic
• Tossing A Cigarette
• The Invisible Influence
• Penetrating and Rising Lit Cigarette
  • Working
  • The Penetration
  • The Rising Effect

1st edition 1983, 12 pages; PDF 15 pages.

• Foreword
• Playing With Fire - Part One
  • The Construction Of The Fire-Eaters Torch
  • To Eat Fire
  • A Novel Way To Light The Second Torch
  • Eating Fire From The Hand
  • Burning The Tongue Alive
  • Try Shooting Flames From The Mouth
  • The Giant Blow-Out
  • A True Story
• Playing With Fire - Part Two
  • The Mysterious Gas Jet
  • A Simple Fire Wheel
  • Balancing The Fire Wheel
  • Miscellaneous Fire Effects
  • Multiplying Candles
  • The Famous Clay Pipes Mystery
  • The Fire Bowl
  • Re-Lighting Tapers
  • Lighted Candle From Pocket
  • The Fire Walk
• A Complete Fire Act
  • Notes On Fire Regulations
  • A Final Word
• Please...

A compilation of the very best methods of producing lighted cigarettes. Covers all the various sleights and moves for this production. 36 illustrations. The last chapter takes up the pipe production, which is always a popular finish with cigarette manipulators.

Paul Fleming wrote:

Early 1900's version of the Haunted Match Box. For a finish the box transforms into a small doll dressed in a cloth gown. This does take construction skills and the effect is worth the trouble. See video below. Another video, where Tilley literally lifts the skirt of the girl, is included with the purchase (check your digital shelf).

1st edition 2017, PDF 4 pages, video 40s.

The elusive matchbox.

A favorite of Dai Vernon. A matchbox sleeve vanishes from the performer's hand and returns to his pocket. Requires some construction but not difficult. See video below.

1st edition 2017, 4 pages.

This ebook is crammed with 40 usable routines, tricks, gags and effects using flash paper and flash bills.

This cornucopia of magical wonders uses that amazing pyrotechnic wonder, flash paper, to spruce up your regular magic, mentalism or music routine. This newly revised edition updates and expands the original material providing even more incentive to dig that package of flash paper out of your magic drawer and put it to use.

Learn this attention-getting magic today and be the life of any party or gathering.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Care of Flash Paper
• Cautions and Tips
• Methods...

Incorporating the two previous editions known as Tips on Flash Paper and More Tips on Flash Paper, plus much additional material.

• General Comments Re- Flash Paper
• Opening Effects
• Effects with Cigarettes, Cigars, Flames, Matches and Ashtrays
• Effects with Money
• Effects with Cards
• Effects with Silks
• Effects with Balls
• Effects with Paper
• Effects with Flowers
• Effects with Rope
• Effects with Milk
• Miscellaneous Effects
• Gags, Stunts and Bits of Business

1st edition 1951; 1st digital edition 2016, 52 pages.

From the introduction:

Content

• PART ONE - Match...

This is truly an encyclopedic work including sleight of hand manipulation with cigarettes as well as all gimmicks, all explained with more than 300 photos. Pretty much everything that is to know about this subject is included in this ebook. Produce lit cigarettes endlessly, crush a burning cigarette in your hand and have it vanish and a lot more.

Paul Fleming wrote: