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Magicians do the same basic show over and over. This text will help you prepare for a second, third or fourth show that same day. It covers the need to decompress from the first performance, relax, and reset. Then it identifies ways to pump yourself back up.

Every time you step on stage the audience should feel they are experiencing a premier performance. They don't care if we have done the same magic 100 times already. They want to see a fresh, energetic show each and every time.

This text will cover some of the things professionals do between shows. They follow steps that help them...

Scores of street scams, swindles, and card table ruses are explained in this 163 page ebook, guaranteed to separate a sucker from his money just as quickly today as when this tome was first written in the mid-1800s. Don't read this book to cheat -- instead, get it for protection so you don't become...

Have you ever wanted to learn Tea Leaf Readings? Now you can! In just over an hour you will learn how to give basic past present future tea leaf readings. With this easy to use system you will be able to read any symbol using your intuition.

Imagine holding a person spellbound by what you read...

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...

Magic That Points To The Upward Life carries on this tradition beautifully. One of the early chapters deals with the oft-asked question: "Why Magic?" (in regards to the teaching of gospel truths). Here you will find a logical and well documented statement of the authors beliefs wherein the gospel and magic are used to support each others positions. This is followed by an...

"I recently purchased Super-Mentality. It is terrific -- I see no room for improvement. I really believe it is under-priced for the value received and the effect on any audience." - M. Jansen

"Super-Mentality is one act that is well worth the price, and I would unhesitatingly...

Even with a fine show, extraordinary talent and natural ability, you can still fail to be a financial success, simply because you don't know how to book your attraction.

This ebook will show you, as a clever mentalist, where and how you can book your show and work every day of the year. There's plenty of work for the psychic entertainer who wants to work, if he or she makes use of the information and knowledge contained in this ebook. Learn the ins and outs of working in theatres, night clubs, hotels, resorts, fairs and exhibitions. Discover the subtleties of working in radio and TV, including...

Audio Peek is an unconventional peeking technique using the auditory sense and not the usual sight/vision sense. This simple and easy technique/method/habit can be comfortably incorporated into one of our most common everyday activities.

The Audiopeek technique consists of 3 steps, which are as follows.

1. Creating conditions for performing an Audio Peek.
2. Actually doing an Audio Peek when the conditions support.
3. Using the information thus gained in an appropriate and impactful manner.

These are Patrik's lecture notes for the International Magic Convention held in London, England, 2013. It includes a Foreword by David Acer. Note that there is some overlap in contents with Toronto Kufference 2011.

Lazy Malini
Ever since the very first time I saw David Copperfield perform a "newspaper card stab" in the movie Terror Train, I've considered the card stab revelation to be one of the more seductive presentation in magic as far as card tricks go. (Not quite as seductive as Jamie Lee Curtis in her prime, but close enough to make me watch that movie.) Many great versions have been shared and published...

From the introduction:

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 using a deck of cards.

Table of Content:

• 1. Shuffled Prediction: Your participant shuffles the deck, deals cards and stops at one. That card is predicted. A bold and direct manner to predict any card.
• 2. Impromptu Tossed Out Deck: Three participants onstage, each one thinking on a card from a shuffled pack of cards. Yes, impromptu and ungimmicked...

Pro magician and author Milbourne Christopher reveals even more favorite tips, ideas, gags, patter and effects from his own shows. Get extra mileage from the magic effects you already own.

This ebook picks up from where his earlier book, Tips on Tricks, leaves off - with no duplication of material. Just practical, tested material for any performer. At this low price, we think it's one of the finest values in magic today.

"One of the most practical brochures on magic I've ever seen. 'More Tips on Tricks' is crammed with material which has obviously been performance tested." - Wm. W. Larsen, Sr.

"A fine volume full...

This, originally written in 1910, juggling and magic book is (for the most part) still very relevant. Besides the insights you will gain about juggling and magic in the late 1800s, you will also learn about forgotten routines that you can use to enrich your repertoire with and that would still play...

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• Another Change Fold (1) / Sid Lorraine
• Delusion / Arthur Setterington
• Improved Routine for Lippincott Coin Box / Mike Rogers
• I'll Die for You / Tan Hock Chuan
• Let's Make it a Prediction / Peter Warlock
• Another Look at Swindle Flip / Bernard Weller

• Indestructo Envelope and Pound Note / Peter McDonald
• Black and White / R. Woodhouse Pitman
• In My Estimation / George Blake
• Platform Hofzinser Revisited / Francis Haxton
• Telekinesis / Peter Warlock

• The Invisible Travellers / Phoa Yan Tiong
• Touch / Wells Lee Payne
• On the Birthday Magic Square / Bob Neale ...

"Moment's Notice contained a superb collection of impromptu card effects. In this second volume, Cameron has done it again ... in fact, this second volume might even be better than the first, if that is at all possible!" - Peter Duffie

"This is the kind of material I like, not difficult to do and with the EFFECT in mind!" - Aldo Colombini

"Cameron's material from the Moment's Notice series makes me want to go for a swim in Antarctica. It's that freakin hot!" - Donny Orbit

"I didn't want Moment's Notice 1 to end. This one picks up perfectly where the last left of. Filled with brilliantly commercial impromptu effect ready...

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   • ... - nesting wands
   • Picasso Pro - Lloyd Barnes & Craig Filicetti - color match routine - iOS App
   • A Voyage To Better Magic - Ian Brennan - book
   • The Informer Impression Pad - Lloyd Mobley
   • Distilled - Ryan Plunkett - book
   • Sensations - Lecture Notes - Boris Wild - booklet
   • 10 Max: One Principle, Ten Cards, Ten Effects - Boris Wild (Paul Gordon) - PDF
   • Augure 2.0 - Myke Phillips - confabulation style predictions - iOS App
   • Carpenter Coins - Jack Carpenter - coin routine with gimmicked coin
   • Shining - James Anthony - card and coin effect
   • Parlour Tricks - Rhys Morgan...

Supply your own regular Post-It notes, clip and an imagination, and you will be predicting words and drawings and weird baby names by the end of the day. You will also be able gain access to a private Facebook group which will contain new updates, routines and ideas from other mentalists.

1st edition 2020, video length 18 min 31 s.

5 novel techniques, 4 variations. A crash course on billet reading/peeking techniques. You get a full peek of the billet every time.

"I can confirm, it contains the best full peek done with a folded billet that I am aware of." - Nestor Dee

"Julien's work with billets is sensational! His techniques...

A practical guide to the invention of tricks plus newly created tricks.

"I must say that I was prepared to dislike this book ... Wilker's discussion, however, is so pleasant and unassuming that one can hardly disagree with him. In part, this is because Wilker seems to recognize the inherent problems in stating hard and fast rules about creativity and so limits his conclusions accordingly." - Stephen Hobbs

From the Preface:

A terrific audience participation effect about a famous carnival and con artist swindle. Audiences love tricks with money. They also love to learn about swindles and cons, in order to protect themselves. This effect provides both: entertainment and a lesson.

In this clever routine, you demonstrate how easy it is to swindle the victim out of $10 for a $1 purchase. Not just a trick, but an actual scam that fleeces thousands of people every day. Don't you be one of them!

And, only in this updated edition, we supply camera-ready master images of stage bills that you can use for the effect....

A master secret of the professional psychic that previously sold for the equivalent of $185.00 in today's money. That mysterious, almost mythical billet reading method as used by a select few of the best-informed clairvoyants. One of the most closely held secret routines of the profession, and to the very best of Nelson's information, known to only four living people at the time of writing.

The secret has long been sought by investigators and magicians. In fact, it is alleged that David P. Abbott tried in vain for thirty years to learn the true secret. Originated and perfected by one of the craftiest...

A complete stranger approaches you and requests for you to impress them. Armed with only a few scraps of paper and a pencil you proceed to perform a full Numerology Act for the stranger giving them several extremely accurate personality readings, revealing the name of a thought of person, when they met, and what they were wearing. You even predict the location they met!

For your grand finale, you prove that fate had brought them to you that day with a lightning-fast demonstration of mental acrobatics that relates only to them.

The act can be done completely impromptu or as a full show...

With his hilariously sharp yet playful put-down lines and quirky comedy plots, Mel Mellers has rightly established himself as one of the nation's favourite stand-up performers. Equally at home in front of lay people or a theatre full of magicians, Mel's individual performance style, which has been honed over many years as a pro and through countless performances all over the world, is a delight to experience.

Now you can go behind the scenes with this truly inspiring performer and learn how you too can become a top-flight entertainer. Mel gives freely of his advice on all aspects of performance,...

A comprehensive survey of amusing ideas and ways to use a dove pan in an entertaining manner.

Excerpt from the Foreword by Sid Lorraine: