Step into the little-known world of early 20th-century German conjuring with this rare digital edition of F.W. Conradi's "Magical Mixtum Compositum II." Long overlooked in the English-speaking world, this volume offers a fascinating glimpse into a rich magical tradition, packed with ingenious card tricks, sophisticated parlor illusions, anti-spiritualist experiments, and stagecraft that remains strikingly clever and effective today. From the intricate "Mysterious Thought Photography" to the grand stage illusion "Creo," each page reveals ingenious methods and creative thinking, preserved here and offered to you in an English translation.
Modern magicians seeking to expand their repertoire beyond the well-trodden classics will find unique material in this book. Whether you're drawn to the elegant mathematical deception of "Occultism and the Telephone," the masterful coin productions of "How I Make 60 Coins Appear," or the charming vintage plots like "Playing Card and Film Star," this collection provides not only complete routines but also a profound connection to magical history. Add a layer of depth and originality to your act with these little-known wonders - perfect for the performer looking to enrich his repertoire with forgotten gems from the timeless art of deception.
CONTENTS:
PREFACE By F.W. Conradi
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
PART I: CARD MAGIC
THE FIVE MYSTERIOUS CARDS: Five cards are assembled into a fan, vanish completely, and later reappear from an impossible location.
A MYSTERIOUS THOUGHT PHOTOGRAPHY: A spectator mentally selects a queen. The magician "photographs" their thought, predicting both the chosen card and its exact position in the deck.
THE APPEARING AND DISAPPEARING CARD IN THE HAND: A single card visually vanishes from the magician's hand only to instantly reappear at the fingertips.
WHATEVER YOU WANT!!: Spectators freely choose a card value (e.g., Queens). Those four cards are then magically discovered and isolated multiple times within a shuffled deck.
THE RISING CARDS IN THE POCKET: Selected playing cards rise mysteriously and sequentially from the magician's breast pocket.
PLAYING CARD AND FILM STAR: A chosen playing card visibly travels from a closed wallet into a previously empty photo frame, replaced by a picture of a film star.
THE CARDS IN THE GLASS: Cards chosen from a deck and returned vanish entirely after the deck is placed under a cloth in a glass.
THE PLANKS FROM TUTANKHAMUN'S TOMB: After a card is merely thought of by a spectator, it is discovered magically sandwiched between two ancient-looking wooden boards.
THE SECRET OF THE SEVENS: Using four sevens as magical guides, the performer can instantly locate any card named by the audience from a shuffled deck.
ORDER RULES THE WORLD: After a complex but fair selection process by multiple spectators, groups of cards assemble themselves into matched sets inside separate glasses.
NEW METHOD TO FIND A SELECTED CARD WITH A KNIFE: While blindfolded, the magician stabs a knife through a newspaper covering a spread deck, cleanly impaling the spectator's chosen card.
PART II: ILLUSIONS
THE GREAT ILLUSION "CREO": A lifeless clay head mounted on a frame is slowly transformed into a living, breathing woman who steps down from the platform.
PART III: PARLOR MAGIC
GASTON'S GREAT HOURGLASS TRICK: The sand in a large, examined hourglass defies gravity by visibly flowing from the bottom bulb back to the top without being turned over.
A BELL EXPERIMENT: Three sleigh bells are examined - one rattles, two are silent. Despite slow, visible movements, the audience is consistently fooled about which glass contains the ringing bell.
THE CHEMIST'S SECRET: A red silk handkerchief placed into a newspaper cone transforms into a blue silk handkerchief, which is pulled from the cone's tip.
SILK AND EGG: Two silk handkerchiefs vanish from a newspaper cone, replaced by a stream of confetti. The silks are later found inside an egg, which itself is discovered inside a head of cabbage.
HOW I MAKE 60 COINS APPEAR: The magician produces a massive quantity of 60 coins from the air, a spectator's person, and a tray, culminating in a stunning vanish of all coins from a glass.
GASTON'S ORIGINAL GOLDFISH CATCH: With sleeves rolled up, the magician plucks six live goldfish from the empty air and deposits them into a clear aquarium.
THE MYSTERIOUS FISHNET: Several live goldfish are caught from thin air using a simple fishnet and added to an aquarium.
THE MIGRATION OF THE BALLS: Four solid balls placed in a box vanish and are instantly transported across the stage to appear inside a sealed glass tube.
PART IV: ANTI-SPIRITUALIST EXPERIMENTS
OCCULTISM AND TELEPHONE: Through apparent mentalism and a mathematical procedure, the performer psychically divines the name, address, and phone number of a stranger from a directory.
THE SPIRIT RINGS: Several borrowed wedding rings are collected and dropped into a glass, only to be removed moments later mysteriously linked together in a chain.
OCCULTISM AND TELEPHONE: A good idea for a variant of the mental trick explained previously that allows for repeating the effect before the same audience.
1st German edition 1927, 1st English edition 2026, PDF 42 pages.
word count: 12771 which is equivalent to 51 standard pages of text
