Bizarre in Mentalism & Spiritism

21 clever methods used by mentalists, psychics, magicians and fake mediums to make tables tilt, levitate and dance about the floor.

Covers methods used by famous performers, fraudulent mediums, and even the very latest floating table effects available from dealers. Also includes a method where a table - with a person sitting in the center of it - is made to levitate. And best of all, the person on table won't know how the effect was accomplished.

Whether you perform a solo act, or have a touring company with assistants and stagehands, you're sure to find a method that works for your performing...

Here's a collection of 35 mental and spirit mysteries worthy of performance by any psychic entertainer.

For the performer looking to present something beyond the normal, these (actually 36) effects are ones that you'll find yourself using anywhere people gather. And if you're called upon to provide seance-worthy demonstrations, the effects described in this ebook to make you a medium to be reckoned with. Inside you'll find mental magic with cards, cigarettes, silks and billets, as well as plenty of reputation-makers for the "dark" spirit seance room.

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Please know that some of the methods taught in this ebook may pose a health risk to you, particularly if you are not in top health. We are supplying this information for educational purposes only and to explain how the fakirs do this. Use of these methods is done on your own risk.

This is the definitive work on the subject. Many magicians may know one method using a gimmick, but this PDF gives you five different methods for stopping your pulse. This can be a very effective effect for lay people and never fails to amaze. The psychic, Jason Michaels, used these effects for reporters to garner...

A performance guide for "Frozen in Time".

I've owned the original Frozen in Time by Masuda since it was first released in the 1990s. Sure, nowadays there are physical pocket watches or wristwatches controlled electronically that you can do this with, but to me what's astonishing about Frozen in Time is that it's a gosh darn photograph! That's just crazy! How can a photograph happen to be set to an hour the subject chooses?

To me, Frozen in Time is a storytelling piece, not a prediction effect. I go into more detail in the manuscript as to why. It's fair to say I initially struggled with...

A Lightning Rod to the Spirits contains four exciting new routines, routines that are proud to have their feet planted very firmly in the world of Bizarre Magick! Utilising the most common and simple props (a thumb tip for example and a magic colouring book - not to mention a frying pan!), these routines will take your audience on a genuinely freaky journey. There are no half measures here - these routines are designed to actually spook an audience!

The routines feature at their core common, everyday items such as a watch, a sachet of salt, a child's colouring book and yes, a frying pan....

Host your own entertaining séance or year-round haunted house with these frightfully spooky stunts.

Not just for Halloween, you'll be the life of the party any time with more than a devil's dozen effects and stunts that take place around the séance table or darkened room. They won't break the (blood) bank, either.

Newly revised, with over 20 pages of added content, including new methods, attractions and ideas to make yours the most talked-about event in your city or town. Don't just perform magic . . . live it in your own house of spooks and ghosts.

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Learn a complete evening of magical mystery entertainment, with only three stones. Take your audience on a journey into a world of strange energies, sacred stones and shamanic journey. Scripts, notes and ideas including some of the ethical questions that performing such work can bring up. This is as close as you will get to real magic for an audience. Your choice is do you stay a performer or become a New Age Guru!

"Rob's AOT is an excellent example of how a professional devises an exciting and highly atmospheric evening of psychic entertainment - and the author's thoughts about the ethics...

HP Lovecraft was a master of the weird and horrific. The rightful heir to EA Poe. You may not even be aware of the influences he has made. From the Evil Dead movies to Stephen King, Hellboy and many, many others, Lovecraft has left a mark deeper than the most fathomless grave.

Paranormalist Vince Wilson has always been a huge Lovecraft fan and has been waiting for the right moment to release his popular Ode to Lovecraft Seance onto the world. In Wilson's original tale, Lovecraft is presented as an early 20th Century paranormal researcher who was trying to present the "reality" of his writings...

This effect is finally available as a Do-It-Yourself PDF. The retail version with the spoons sells for $29.00. However with this PDF you can make up all the spoons you want to for about $1.00 each. Here are the details.

Al Mann and Devin Knight were some of the early originators of self bending spoon techniques. This is the REAL work on self-bending spoons developed jointly by Al Mann and Devin Knight during the mid 80s.

You get the exact method used by Devin in newspaper office through out the years to garner front page publicity. Show two spoons, one in each hand. The spectator is given...

Excerpt from the introduction:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Will O' the Witch
• Psychic Deck
• The Spirit of...

Have you even wanted to do something that is both fun and scary? This routine can be performed at parties and friends' homes. This is a small séance that plays big and can really be played anytime of the year that you want. It uses a common magic prop that most of us have lying in a drawer and B.O.S (balls of steel).

Mirrors have always held a fascination with people and have always been connected to stories of being a portal to other worlds.

Have you ever wondered as you prepare for bed at night how things may not be as they seem? At night we comb our hair and brush our teeth as we...

Guy Bavli has followed Uri Geller as Israel's magician and mentalist who specializes in metal bending. Guy is a full-time professional, constantly performing on television both in the United States and abroad. Guy is also a three-time winner of the Israeli Gold Cup Award for "Best Magician."

These DVDs have originally been released by A1-Magical Media and are now being made available as downloads.

• Spoons from Card Case - Produce spoons from your card case - how do they fit?
• Bending a Spoon in a Spectator's Hand - Bend metal with your mind.
• Bag Bend - A complete act involving members of the audience; spoons bend and break.
• Melting a Spoon in a Spectator's Hand - A spoon melts and breaks while in a spectator's hand.
• Miracle with a Fork - One of the tines on a fork bends, unbends and then breaks.
• Energy Hand - By simply waving your hand over a spoon, it bends.
• Perfect Key Bending - A borrowed and signed key is bent using only the power of your mind.
• Haunted Spoon - The ultimate haunted...

• Incredibly Clean - An easy mental masterpiece with cards.
• Question Mark Mystery - A matching pair of cards is located by a spectator using only the power of the mind.
• Fan Vision - A thought-of card, the performer names it.
• The Perfect Prediction - The ultimate book test, near-impossible conditions.
• Impromptu Card Stab - A card is selected and lost; cards are tossed into the air and the selection is impaled on a knife.
• The Lottery Prediction - Six spectators correctly pick the winning lottery numbers.

• Bending a Large Nail - Mind power demonstration.
• Bending a Small Nail - Very devious method.
• Shrinking Spoon - Visibly cause a spoon to shrink.
• Spoon through Table - With the handle visible, a spoon penetrates the table top.
• Stopping a Watch/Time of the Future - A borrowed watch is caused to stop working; then, under a spectator's hand, the time mysteriously moves forward several hours.
• Headline Prediction - Perform a mental miracle using the day's newspaper.
• The Perfect Clipboard - Guy's ultimate routine for the popular marketed clipboards. Just like real mindreading.

The Ultimate Key Bending Routine.

In the early 1970’s, at the "dawning of the Age of Aquarius," a young Israeli named Uri Geller attracted worldwide attention with his "psychic" abilities. While he demonstrated several paranormal skills, it was his "psychokinetic" ability to bend silverware, borrowed keys, and nails that set him apart from other "New Age" psychics. In the years that followed many mentalists and magicians added "metal bending" routines to their repertoires, and many sleights and gimmicks have been devised to facilitate the effect.

You may have noticed that most of the...

Stephen King in his book Dance Macabre, a book that deals with horror in literature and film, pointed out that the only two kinds of movies which produced an audible reaction from an audience were comedy and horror.

It was Tony Shiels who pushed magic in the direction of horror and, long before magic-as-theatre became the latest fad, suggested that tricks could be made more entertaining if their presentations were more dramatic; perhaps a little out of the ordinary. Few took up the suggestion but those that did went on to found what is today known as Bizarre Magick; magic which involves those...

Psientific Pseudo Psi, Mountebankery, Monstrosities and Horrors. Weird tricks for the magickal story-teller.

1st edition 1988, 87 pages; 1st digital edition 2012, PDF 62 pages.

Table of Contents

5. Introduction

8. CHAPTER ONE: PSCIENTIFIC PSEUDO PSI
11. Around The World In 80 Seconds

15. CHAPTER TWO: SURREALCHEMY
16. Dreams And Destiny
18. Automatism
21. Le Jeu De Marseille

23. CHAPTER THREE: MOUNTEBANKERY

30. CHAPTER FOUR: BIZARRE MAGICK
31. Black Christmas
36. Casting The Runes
38. Over-Familiarity
40. Tools Of The Trade
41. The Knowledge

43. CHAPTER FIVE: CAIT SIDH
43. The Witch's Web
44. Psyche's Revenge
45. The Irish Factotum ...

Burning of Candles, Use of Roots and Oils Powders and Incenses. Significance of Cards, Horoscope with Lucky Days and Lucky Numbers. A Guide to Spiritualists, Mediums, and Readers, from the most powerful and famous Voodoo priestess.

72 pages.

In the Burn the Witch not only will you find four great effects that are inspired by witchcraft, but you will see the creative fusion of approaches to magick that makes Rob one of the most exciting mystery entertainers in the UK. Ideas, technique and inspiration drawing on sleight of hand, mentalism and hypnotism.

Effects:

• Protection against Witchcraft
• The Face at the Grave
• The Scented Flower
• The Witches Mark

1st edition 2013, 36 pages.

Here are the secrets of Charles Cameron's stunning Castle Dracula Show. Charles Cameron is well known as the father of modern Bizarre magic. And for years, in a specially-built theatre at the Edinburgh Wax Museum, he and his group produced an amazing show which included brilliant original effects.

The show was honed year after year until each effect was near perfect and here in this work, Charles at last reveals his closely guarded secrets. Every single effect included can be performed exactly as described. Only a handful of props are required for you to emulate the mysteries that fooled...

Charlie Charlie & Other Spooks is a collection of bizarre magick and paranormal entertainment routines subtitled 'Contemporary Bizarre Magick for the Modern Era'. The routines, ideas, and presentations contained within take their inspiration from modern urban myths and legends.

There are three main sections to this ebook. The first section covers the Charlie Charlie spirit communication phenomena that has been sweeping the internet in recent times. Paul Voodini takes the original idea, thoroughly explores it, and offers new insights and presentational angles that enable to performer to take...

A tremendous amount of thought, study and development has gone into the routine and presentation of this effect, the result of many years of refinement and actual performance before paying audiences. Maurice has performed this effect literally thousands of times under all sorts of conditions, in cabaret and on stage. It has been an unfailing highlight of his performances, talked about and remembered. So many mental effects give the audience nothing to look at and use the same old plots. Certainly, from the very moment the audience see the arresting sight of a gallows before them the effect must...

Cliff is a new use for an old gimmick. In that sense it is a groundbreaking new concept in the art of PK magic. The gimmick, virtually invisible to the naked eye, can be with you at all times, and is applicable to a nearly limitless amount of objects. You can easily perform Cliff in the midst of a large crowd, as there are no threads, blowing, or vibrations involved in the effect. Your body never comes in contact with the object. You can even hand out the item for examination.

Cliff is a dramatic, stunningly visual addition to your repertoire and a new development in the world of PK magic.

Make clouds vanish, appear and more. With a preface by Paolo Cavalli and a foreword by Enrique Enriquez.

Two of the world's foremost 'Cloudbusters' reveal their inner secrets of cloud magic!

In this ebook the authors strip away the veil of secrecy, revealing cloud secrets only known to a select few. Learn to make clouds vanish and appear. Sculpture them into images of selected playing cards, thought of numbers, ESP symbols, faces, and even animals.

Nothing is held back. Apparently change the weather by delaying rain or snow or even by making it warmer. Believe it or not you can do a...

Get ready for Halloween (and all year long)! With this little creature and story, you will scare people to death as it will look realistic and credible. It is based on a true story. You will have to buy a little gimmick (around 1$).

1st edition 2015.

One of the biggest bargains in magic. Over 80 years in the making. Abbott's Dark Matter Secrets is simply the greatest compilation of "spooky and bizarre" magic and mentalism effects ever assembled. Some date back to Abbott's beginning back in 1934. The ultimate spooky magic book, Abbott's Dark Matter Secrets has 142 effects and includes stage illusions (complete with workshop plans), sideshow illusions (again, complete with workshop plans), parlor effects, escape effects, mentalism effects, etc. Dark Matter Secrets is Abbott Magic's expression of spooky magic that it has sold in one form or...

Be ready for Halloween.

This is a dark, multi-phase routine perfect for anyone who appreciates magic with a more sinister tone.

• The participant selects and signs a card
• It is placed in their hands.
• When they turn the card over, a black pentagram has appeared on the face.
• You hold the card over a flame, and the pentagram vanishes from the card, and reappears on your palm.
• You then burn the face of the card, and the numbers "666" appear in white writing in the center of the scorch mark.

From the preface:

Dim Mak is a secret technique taught by martial artists that can render a man dead with just a touch!

Within this e-book, you will learn a technique known as Dim Mak: the PK Touch. Taught only to a select few mentalists, this devastating new manuscript will lead you through several "real" techniques on how to appear to stop someone's pulse! Not only do you get several methods to ensure that the pulse stops, you also get a full routine with the Dim Mak back story. No reason to be scared off by psychology, Dim Mak teaches practical physical techniques to appear to stop your own pulse and a...

Weird, eerie and baffling pseudo spirit manifestations are easy to accomplish with very little preparation or expense, once you know how.

That was the first line of Nelson's catalog ad for this nearly impossible to find manuscript, detailing the methods of fake mediums and con artists who presented seances to bilk the public. Why is this title so hard to find? Primarily because it was only advertised in three of the Nelson Enterprises catalogs. Some feel that the methods were used to spawn new fraudsters, instead of being used to inform the innocent public. Others believe that Nelson was...

Two rare and long forgotten secrets are revealed again. You do not have to be a medium to produce spirit raps. Devin Knight has compiled two of the easiest ways to produce spirit raps ever devised. If you do any type of question and answer act, then the spirits can rap out the answers. This is unnerving to those watching. Imagine walking into any place there is a table. You sit at the table and have two people on both sides hold your hands or wrists so you can't use them. They can also put their shoes on your shoes so you can't use your feet. Under these conditions you manifest spooky raps that...

The underground Carlos Emesqua offers now in this new work a fantastic set of ideas for your repertoire the power of using PK also known as Psychokinesis. Realistic moments of mystery using natural objects, offering supernatural events. New approaches for bending, techniques, routines and more.

For years, Carlos was able to create a reputation as real Psychic and Psychic Entertainer using these routines. Learn them and you will be able to offer realistic moments of mystery

1. REAL PKMB: For the first time, you will learn the real secrets in doing metal bending as real psychic and not a...

Carlos Emesqua's unique approaches to Spirit Magic. Powerful, realistic and spooky pieces of mystery done in creative new ways.

• Essay: The fundamental secret for Spirit Magic
• 1. Fire Match: Learn how to create a self-ignite match, using any borrowed match. (No chemicals, no preparation)
• 2. Ectoplasm: Make an ectoplasm appear anytime, anywhere (Highly practical)
• 3. Emesqua Voodoo: An unique and powerful demonstration of voodoo using business cards.
• 4. Image of the Soul: A paranormal phenomena using a photo and a strange vanish.
• 5. Emesqua Spirit Writing: Just a few pieces of papers are...

A series of effects to attempt to make spiritual contact with an unfortunate little girl.

After releasing his controversial Memories of Emily séance a few years ago, Mark Piazza has always thought about re-writing it and 'toning it down' somewhat as it was too graphic for some.

While attempting to do so, Mark ended up creating a whole different Emily séance!

Simply titled, Emily v2 (version 2), it is another fictional séance about an abducted little girl.

Once again, Mark has put together a series of different effects tied together in a different way so that 90% of the script...